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"Lensa generated nudes from my childhood photos." Through Lensa's "Magic Avatars" application, people have the possibility to create wonderful images starting from personal photographs - however, risking that the AI ​​takes it too far. Following developments involving the production of NSFW material without it bein...

People no longer need to perfect their drawings, SketchAI can get the job done and make them look perfect, at the same time. The new Picsart application only requires a rough sketch to work, but there is the possibility of adding a brief description to facilitate the work of the AI. If the users wish so, they can even ...

"I quite like it, but how about changing that detail? Or you could fix that like this." Hearing these words, receiving advice or constructive criticism, is not sign of a failure. Too often creative minds sabotage themselves by trying to achieve perfection - an unattainable goal, as it is completely idealized. Fear of c...

In this conversation with the Magic: The Gathering artist Greg Rutkowski, podcaster Aaron Dhanda engages in a dialogue regarding the profound impact of the advent of Artificial Intelligence services as generators of art, especially within environments dedicated to digital art. The speech fluctuates between questions p...

Following an extensive debate that sees two digital artists Kris Kashtanova and Brian Penny as protagonists, a question has arisen: one that has so far been relegated behind the scenes of any disquisition. Both subjects are exponents of the panorama dedicated to generative art; having met online, they had the opportuni...

For the first time in history, three artists have come together to file legal cases against some Artificial Intelligence services due to their improper use of images and other people's works. In fact, a trio of creatives has opened a lawsuit against Deviantart, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney for copyright infringement...

Few are aware of the specifics of using ebooks: they can't be resold, often not even loaned out - if bought through Amazon, they can solely be read through the company's devices. Consumers don't really own the ebook, they just paid to read it. As a result of economic developments within the online environment dedicated...

FN Meka, the virtual AI rapper, was recently dropped by the Capitol Records record company. The artist's name, if you can call it that, has already been removed from the label's website, which has publicly apologized to the inadvertently targeted community. The non-profit group Industry Blackout had previously expresse...

Many want to immerse themselves in the metaverse, but to make it attractive to the mass it's necessary that the content within it is interesting, fun and engaging. In South Korea, that content is K-pop. A large number of members of K-pop groups already have digital counterparts (Karina, a singer of the band "Aespa", u...

Towards the end of December, the messaging platform "Slack" was the victim of a cybersecurity incident - the company reassures, however, that sensitive user data and the primary code of the application have not been compromised. The issue essentially consists of a forced access to Github code repositories outside of Sl...

As it was easy to expect, there is more to come after LastPass November's data breach. The parent company GoTo, formerly LogMeIn, has declared a data breach where customer's backups along with encryption keys were stolen by an unidentified actor. When a Cloud Service Provider suffers a data breach, long term effects a...

Riot Games, the creator company of League of Legends and Valorant, was the victim of a hacker attack during January 2023. Through an email, the culprits asked for 10 million dollars in exchange for their silence regarding the source code of the games mentioned above. If paid, the hacker group promised to erase the inf...

In these hours, PayPal is sending a notice to about 35,000 users concerning unauthorised access to as many online accounts of the well-known online payment platform. The method, according to the platform's statement, is not due to a system breach but to access accounts using the same credentials (user names/passwords) ...

Do copyrighted works need to be produced exclusively by human hand? Yes, according to the United States Copyright Office (USCO). Originally inclined to provide the protection of the latter to a comic entirely composed of Generative Art, they have recently taken a step back, changing their minds. Author Kris Kashtanova'...

A sample of 5 million users has been posted on Breached on November 6th 2022. The sample is part of allegedly 240+ million records of Deezer. The French distributor admitted a data breach suffered by a third party in 2019 and whom which the company did not work since 2020. The breached information contains first and la...

The position of the intellectual property behemoth 'Disney' persists in its strategy of no longer creating physical copies of film products. This decision also affects all proprietary brands such as Marvel, Fox, etc. It is a strategy that snatches away the opportunity for collectors to own a physical collector's cop...