Business
An Image Generator That Pays Artists: Shutterstock's new generative AI tool will pay artists.
A top supplier of stock images will compensate artists who contribute training data to its image-generation service.
AI job loss
Tech & Society
Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.
A prominent tech-news website generated controversy (and mistakes) by publishing articles written by AI. CNET suspended its practice of publishing articles produced by a text-generation model following news reports that exposed the articles’ authorship.
Business
AI as Officemate: Workers benefit from AI-powered assistance and tools.
Many workers benefit from AI in the office without knowing it, a new study found. MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group surveyed employees on their use of AI in their day-to-day work. Their findings...
Tech & Society
Synthetic Images Everywhere: 2022 was the year text-to-image AI went mainstream.
Pictures produced by AI went viral, stirred controversies, and drove investments. A new generation of text-to-image generators inspired a flood of experimentation, transforming text descriptions into mesmerizing artworks and photorealistic fantasies.
Culture
Creatives Fight Back: Generative AI from DeviantArt Creates Controversy
Artists are rebelling against AI-driven imitation. DeviantArt, an online community where artists display and sell their work and marketplace for digital art, launched DreamUp, a text-to-image generator that aims to help artists thwart attempts to imitate their styles or works.
Tech & Society
AI Hasn’t Been So Bad for Jobs: Employment Has Risen in Some Automation-Heavy Professions
Worries that automation is stealing jobs may have been greatly exaggerated. A U.S. government report found that employment has increased in many occupations that may be threatened by automation.
Tech & Society
Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover
The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?
Business
Food Forecaster: Chipotle Tests AI For Predicting Customer Demand
The ability to predict customer demand could make fast food even faster. The Mexican-themed Chipotle restaurant chain is testing AI tools that forecast demand, monitor ingredients, and ensure that workers fill orders correctly.
Culture
Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit: A marketplace for phrases that produce art in DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion
An online marketplace enables people to buy text prompts designed to produce consistent output from the new generation of text-to-image generators.
Tech & Society
Actors Act Against AI: UK Actors Union Launches Campaign Against AI
Performing artists are taking action to protect their earning power against scene-stealing avatars. Equity, a union of UK performing artists, launched a campaign to pressure the government to prohibit unauthorized use of a performer’s AI-generated likeness.
Tech & Society
U.S. Adults Fail AI 101
Most Americans don’t understand AI, according to a new survey. Only 16 percent of adults in the United States got a passing grade on a true-or-false questionnaire of AI’s capabilities and uses.
Business
No Cashier? No Problem: Amazon supermarkets go cashier-less thanks to AI.
Shoppers at Amazon’s newest grocery store can skip the checkout line. Amazon opened its first full-scale supermarket that monitors which items customers place in their cart and charges them automatically when they leave. It calls the system Just Walk Out.