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
heise | Z-Image in der Praxis: Schnelle KI-Bilder ohne Limit – sogar mit wenig VRAM
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@dawid@social.craftknight.comX still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/16/x-still-allowing-sexualised-images-grok-ai-nudification
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Professor David Bowman said that,
because many of the fires in Australia this month appear to have burnt rapidly through grassland,
it made for difficult firefighting conditions.
“You can’t fight these things in the same way you fight a forest fire
because they’re travelling so quickly with high winds.
Everything you’re trying to do was being controlled by the wind,” he said.
Professor Bowman said, if heatwave conditions continued in Victoria,
the e…
I occasionally stop by Reddit for a couple of chuckles. As per usual - the magic is always in the comments
#ShamelesslyStolenFromReddit #shitpost #shitposting
California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/xai-california-elon-musk-deepfakes-child…
@dawid@social.craftknight.comOpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16…