Set up in 2018, Runway has been developing AI-powered video-editing software for several years. Its tools are used by TikTokers and YouTubers as well as mainstream movie and TV studios. The makers of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert used Runway software to edit the show’s graphics; the visual effects team behind the hit movie […]
Monthly Archives: February 2023
Endless Seinfeld episode grinds to a halt after AI comic violates Twitch guidelines
Enlarge / A screenshot of Nothing, Forever showing faux-Seinfeld character Larry Feinberg performing a stand-up act. Nothing Forever reader comments 53 with 0 posters participating Share this story Since December 14, a Twitch channel called Nothing, Forever has been streaming a live, endless AI-generated Seinfeld episode that features pixelated cartoon versions of characters from the […]
Ars Archivum: Top cloud backup services worth your money
reader comments 31 with 0 posters participating Share this story We tested iDrive with its free Basic tier, which offers 10GB of storage. Jim Salter Carbonite is probably the most well-known cloud backup service, thanks to a years-long advertising blitz. It offers “unlimited” backup storage for a single PC. Jim Salter We’d never heard of […]
Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups
reader comments 4 with 0 posters participating Share this story Big Tech companies are aggressively pursuing investments and alliances with artificial intelligence startups through their cloud computing arms, raising regulatory questions over their role as both suppliers and competitors in the battle to develop “generative AI.” Google’s recent $300 million bet on San Francisco-based Anthropic […]
The Download: trapped by grief algorithms, and image AI privacy issues
—Tate Ryan-Mosley, senior tech policy reporter I’ve always been a super-Googler, coping with uncertainty by trying to learn as much as I can about whatever might be coming. That included my father’s throat cancer. I started Googling the stages of grief, and books and academic research about loss, from the app on my iPhone, intentionally […]
When my dad was sick, I started Googling grief. Then I couldn’t escape it.
I am a mostly visual thinker, and thoughts pose as scenes in the theater of my mind. When my many supportive family members, friends, and colleagues asked how I was doing, I’d see myself on a cliff, transfixed by an omniscient fog just past its edge. I’m there on the brink, with my parents and […]
Microsoft alleges attacks on French magazine came from Iranian-backed group
reader comments 8 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft said on Friday that an Iranian nation-state group already sanctioned by the US government was behind an attack last month that targeted the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo and thousands of its readers. The attack came to light on January 4, when a previously […]
AI models spit out photos of real people and copyrighted images
Stable Diffusion is open source, meaning anyone can analyze and investigate it. Imagen is closed, but Google granted the researchers access. Singh says the work is a great example of how important it is to give research access to these models for analysis, and he argues that companies should be similarly transparent with other AI […]
The newest feature in the Microsoft Store is more ads
reader comments 65 with 0 posters participating Share this story If your main problem with the Microsoft Store is that you get too many relevant results when you search for apps, good news: Microsoft is officially launching Microsoft Store Ads, a way for developers to pay to get their apps in front of your eyes […]
Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
Getty Images reader comments 62 with 0 posters participating Share this story Searching Google for downloads of popular software has always come with risks, but over the past few months, it has been downright dangerous, according to researchers and a pseudorandom collection of queries. “Threat researchers are used to seeing a moderate flow of malvertising […]