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Amazon still sells clothes hook spy camera despite facing lawsuit

Dec 12, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Despite legal challenges and ethical concerns, spy cameras disguised as everyday objects are still readily available on Amazon. Recently, a camera disguised as a clothes…

Yul Brynner’s personal Leica cameras sold for over $3 million at an auction

Nov 28, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

In a recent auction held in Vienna, Austria, two Leica MP cameras owned by legendary actor Yul Brynner sold for over €2.76 million (around $3.03 million). Brynner personally used both of them, and they’re considered to be among the rarest and most sought-after Leica cameras in existence.

Natural Landscape Photography Awards 2023 celebrate authenticity in a world of digital manipulation

Nov 17, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Landscape photographers, we have a real treat: Natural Landscape Photography Awards has announced its 2023 winners. This year’s overall winner is Canadian landscape and nature photographer Blake Randall. His icy landscapes are so magical that they’ll make you love winter, even if you’re a sworn summer person.

Sebastião Salgado awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Photography

Nov 14, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado is one of the most accomplished and celebrated photographers working today. The World Photography Organisation awarded him the Outstanding Contribution to…

Charming photo of kids escaping the heat wins URBAN Photo Awards 2023

Nov 2, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Street and urban photography fans, we have quite a treat today. The URBAN Photo Awards 2023 winners have been announced, capturing the versatility, beauty, and sometimes melancholy of urban life.

OpenAI lets artists opt out of AI training data – but there’s a catch

Oct 2, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Many artists have complained about tech giants using their work to train AI models. Some, including writer George R. R. Martin, have even filed lawsuits against OpenAI, Stability AI, and other companies for using their work for these purposes without permission. OpenAI is now offering a chance to artists to remove their creative works from being used in the training data of DALL-E 3, the company’s newest image generator. But there’s a catch: the process is so detailed, complicated, and time-consuming, that artists have called it “enraging.”

George R.R. Martin joins fellow authors in copyright lawsuit against OpenAI

Sep 20, 2023 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

The Authors Guild and famous writers like George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, and Jodi Picoult are suing OpenAI. They claim that the company used their books without asking to train their AI models – without permission, apparently. The lawsuit was just filed in New York, and it will be a class action suit, which would let other writers join in.