#526: Love Bytes
Midjourney Prompts, Generative AI For Creatives
📣 In this issue:
Cinematography in Midjourney, Snapchat AI, AI in art, a free Google AI course, MJ office hours, protecting kids from deepfakes, plus two more epic Midjourney prompts to try.
📰 News-To-Know
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Google has launched a free online course to educate the public about generative AI models like ChatGPT. The course covers the technical foundations of large language models, their potential benefits and risks, and ethical considerations around their use. It aims to help people develop a deeper understanding of how generative AI systems work under the hood, so they can more critically evaluate the capabilities and limitations of these technologies.
The course delves into topics such as machine learning basics, the training process for large language models, common applications of generative AI, and potential societal impacts like the risk of AI-generated misinformation. It is self-paced and consists of video lectures, quizzes, and hands-on exercises, targeting a general audience rather than just AI experts.
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As AI becomes increasingly integrated into the arts, its influence on creativity and employment in artistic fields is under sharp scrutiny. Griffin Smith, a Rhode Island School of Design lecturer, discusses the dual nature of AI in art: it democratizes art-making by eliminating traditional skill barriers, yet it threatens the livelihood of certain artists and designers. The emergence of AI tools in creative jobs introduces significant challenges, particularly for designers whose tasks AI can mimic effectively, potentially leading to a reduction in the demand for human designers and a middle class of artists. Smith's class explores these themes, contextualizing new AI concerns within the broader history of technological impacts on art.
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Snapchat is integrating generative AI technology into its app, allowing users to create images, text, and other content using AI. However, the company will be adding watermarks to this AI-generated content in order to make it clear when something was created using the AI tools, rather than being a real photo or human-created. These watermarks will appear as a small "AI" icon in the corner of any image, text, or other content generated using Snapchat's AI features.
This is intended to help combat the spread of misleading or fake content, by giving users more context about what they are seeing on the platform. Snapchat says the watermarking is part of its efforts to be transparent about the use of AI. The new AI features and watermarking will roll out to Snapchat users in the coming weeks as part of a broader update to the app's content creation tools.