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This creative director harnessed AI to create these incredible woodland creature composite photos

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AI is definitely a buzzword at the moment, some days, it feels like I can’t move without hearing about it. Most of those discussions are scare-mongering and a little bit threatening for the creative industries. But what if, for once, we took a different stance? Instead of looking at what AI imaging tools could destroy, what if we looked at what they could create instead?

That’s exactly what Creative Director Rob Brooks did recently. Brooks will happily admit that he fell down the Midjourney rabbit hole recently and, just like Alice, ended up on a fantastical creative journey himself. Brooks created a series of images using both digital photography of his twin sons and woodland fantasy beasts that he created with AI. DIYP was lucky enough to chat with Rob about how he created the images and his thoughts in general on the future regarding AI and the creative industries.

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Research shows that AI image generators can replicate existing photos

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It might be a good time to study law. Or copyright law, at least. Researchers have released a study that proves that AI image generators can and do, copy existing images that they’ve ‘looked at’ during the machine learning process. This means that there is a chance that anything spat out by the software could be an exact replica of a copyrighted image.

This debunks the favorite argument that AI machines are no different from humans’ learning processes and that everything they sample is merely ‘inspiration’ to create something new. This appears to not be the case, according to the study. Although it is relatively rare at the moment, the researchers predict that with time it could become a greater problem.

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Stock image companies reeling as free AI watermark remover encourages image theft

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How long have you argued the pros and cons of putting a watermark on your photographs? The arguments are strong for both sides, or at least they were. Until recently, that is. WatermarkRemover.io is a powerful AI-run software that allegedly can remove almost any watermark from an image in seconds.

The watermark removal tool is run by Pixelbin.io and is entirely free to use. This could set some consumer photographers on edge who rely on watermarks to deter image theft when sending galleries to clients to proof. In a similar vein, this will also impact stock photography sites, again making it extremely easy to steal copyrighted photos.

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Artist creates AI “time machine” to take hilarious selfies “in the past”

AI has been used for all sorts of different art projects so far, but we have never seen an AI time machine. Well, not until now. An anonymous artist has created one using AI technology and paired it with lots of knowledge, effort, and time to create amusing selfies “from the past.” His imaginary persona is called “Stelfie the Time Traveler,” and the artist shared with DIYP a bit about his process and about Stelfie himself.

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Death of stock photography? Shutterstock launches its own AI image generator

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Shortly after welcoming AI-generated images on its platform, Shutterstock has introduced its own AI image generator, Shutterstock.AI. In collaboration with OpenAI, Shutterstock now offers AI-generated stock images to its customers from anywhere. They can create images in seconds, using any of the languages the website offers. Could this be the end of stock photography as we know it?

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AI app can diagnose your pets ailments via your smart phone camera

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Pets can be expensive, and vet bills are just one of those costs of owning a pet. Korean company AI for Pet has recently launched TTPet, an app that uses AI to diagnose your pet’s possible ill health. All via your smartphone’s camera.

The app will help pet owners by analyzing skin and eyes and takes just a couple of seconds to diagnose any potential health issues.

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We aren’t using customer data to train AI, says Adobe

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Adobe Inc. Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky has categorically stated that Adobe has never used its customer data and content to train artificial intelligence (AI). Following criticism from their user base, the executive says that the terms and conditions and policy on user data have been misinterpreted.

“We have never, ever used anything in our storage to train a generative AI model,” Belsky said in an interview with Bloomberg, adding, “not once.”

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Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion makers over “copyright violations”

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Stock photo platform Getty Images has sued Stability AI, the maker of AI image generator Stable Diffusion. Getty alleges that the tech company unlawfully scraped millions of copyrighted images that Getty owns or represents. As they reportedly never asked for permission to do so, Getty claims that Stability AI benefited commercially, while harming the artists whose work it used to train its AI.

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AI reimagines famous movie dance scenes

Text-to-image and text-to-video generators have opened up many new possibilities for still and video creations. We’ve already seen some pretty cool AI-generated music videos, often made by turning lyrics and verses into pictures.

Eclectic Method (aka Jonny Wilson) has done things a little differently. He made a music video reimagining iconic dance scenes as AI-generated animations. And unlike the two I linked above, it’s not creepy at all – it’s pure fun and it looks really interesting.

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Top ten AI generated images articles for 2022

It’s that time of the year, my friends. We’re filling up on eggnog, turkey, and Christmas pudding (or rakija, sarma, and vanilice here in Serbia), doing the last-minute shopping, and arguing with family at the dinner table. But other than that, we’re also summing up the year that’s soon to be behind us. And here at DIYP, we look back at our favorite posts from the past year.

2022 was also huge for AI technology. This doesn’t only include text-to-image generators and their wide availability – but everything that people have created with them, as well as some potential issues AI-generated content might bring. We can’t deny that the world of art is changing with the arrival of AI-driven programs. It seems to me that they’re here to stay, especially after so many news and stories we’ve seen in 2022 in this field. So, we decided to dedicate this recap to top ten AI-related stories of the year that’s soon to be behind us.

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