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A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-help…

Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes
Backstory automates provenance checks, reverse image searches, and context tracing to speed up verification work.

I think @… has lost it lads.
(I know it's a supplement to the main headline about the overfishing of mackerel... just out of context, it is random)

Two small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.

TIL in 2024, during some AI image contest, someone submitted a real non-generated photograph. And they won. Then they got disqualified.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/photographer-wins-ai-image-contest-real-picture-gets-disqualified-1234709692/

Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/

Introducing Muse Image and Muse Video
Muse Image follows instructions faithfully, edits with precision, composes from multiple references, and draws on Instagram for social context. Muse Video delivers exceptional visual fidelity with native audio support.

📊 Results: text context produced 50 successful games at ~9 minutes average. Image context produced only 23 successful games at ~20 minutes average. Damage numbers were comparable or slightly better with images, but the runtime gap was drastic.
💸 Token usage: 306 million tokens for the text runs vs 213 million for the image runs — with roughly half as many completed games.

Dis Bilbo, c'était quoi ton moment préféré ?
Y en a un paquet, évidemment, mais il y a ce moment après le troisième contact quand la pression retombe, que les gens autour sont béats et joyeux. Et ce petit rituel du selfie solaire instauré il y a 20 ans dans le désert égyptien. Un moment de partage avec tous les voisins qui sont repartis avec un croissant de soleil en projection sur leur t-shirt ou dans la main. C'était chouette, vraiment...

Trump’s Super PAC Starts to Unload Its War Chest,
With New Group Booking $47 Million
A recently created Republican group tied to the president’s super PAC
is pumping cash into half a dozen key midterm races,
with the largest amounts going toward Senate contests in Michigan and Ohio

Trump’s PAC Unloads War Chest, With $49 Million Headed to Key Midterm Races
A recently created Republican group tied to the president’s super PAC is pumping cash into half a dozen key midterm races, with the largest amounts going toward Senate contests in Michigan and Ohio.

I also saw that uncredited, context-free photo in my timeline.
This entire thread is a good explanation of the many ways that post was bad form:
https://mas.to/@meganL/116888106293249758
Give credit, give context, don’t do inspo porn.

Megan Lynch (she/her) (@meganL@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image When posters link (or credit if they have no valid links), they give us the ability to find context and more info. The missing info here was: The soccer player: Carson Pickett of the Orlando Pride (at the time). The boy: Joseph Tidd, who was 2 years old at the time it was taken. Photographer: Colleen Tidd, the mother of Joseph. https://www.instagram.com/tiddbit_outta_hand/p/ByWi0FMnB4L/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2019/07/23/carson-pickett-one-armed-so…

🧠 The reasoning: text tokens are discrete, drawn from a fixed vocabulary of ~50,000 entries, each mapping to a fixed point in embedding space.
Image tokens are continuous vectors of a thousand floating point numbers, so they can pack far more information into the same space.
🎮 The test: a tower-defense game where the AI plays in JSON mode without graphics, run for hours with two context variants — the same game state as a plain text string, and as an image rendered via PixelPipe.…