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AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/843883/ai-image-generators-better-worse

AI image generators are getting better by getting worse
AI image generators are getting way better at creating realistic fakes, by making image quality a little bit worse.

How generative AI is used in the financial sector.
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Generative AI in Financial Services: Use Cases & Risks
Explore generative AI in financial services: how it works, top use cases, customer experience gains, key risks, and governance best practices.

Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/generative-ai-is-coming-for-ip

Generative AI is coming for IP and patent law, as Solve Intelligence raises its Series B
It looks like a swathe of older legal tech platforms are about to be hit by Generative AI startups. But are VCs using 'king-making' tactics to back the winners?

❝Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:
● Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.
● Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.❞

Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

Bandcamp bans music and audio that is "generated wholly or in substantial part by AI", hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)
https://www.webpronews.com/bandcamp-bans-ai-generated-music…

The Next Generation will be 40 years old next year, so about two generations ago

Pelosi predicts first female president 'within this next generation' (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5648622-next-generation-woman-president/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p41#a251214p41

Interessehalber: Weiß jemand, wieviele #Strafverfahren gegen die #Dieselprotestler mit den #Traktoren eingeleitet wurden?
Waren die

Klimaaktivismus: Tausende Strafverfahren gegen Letzte Generation in Berlin
Nötigung, Widerstand, Sachbeschädigung: Die Liste der Vorwürfe gegen Aktivisten der Letzten Generation ist lang. In Berlin wurden fast 5.700 Strafverfahren eingeleitet.

User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
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Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.

Bandcamp bans music and audio that is "generated wholly or in substantial part by AI", hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)
https://www.webpronews.com/bandcamp-bans-ai-generated-music…