#AI image generation
15 stories taggedAI image generation.
AI Image Generation Jumped From 1 Story to 6 in Our Feed. Here Is What Actually Drove It
Four separate outlets pushed the topic onto AI2Day this week. Half the stack was Google Pics. The other half was the mess these tools leave behind.
Why AI-Generated Food Looks So Wrong (and So Revolting)
Restaurants and cafés are using AI image tools to promote their menus. The results, noodly, holey, deeply unsettling, are not winning any appetites. Here is the science behind why.
AI Takes a 1956 Time Trip While a Comedian's Far-Right Rally Skit Gets a Second Life in the Daily Mail
The Guardian's Weekly Beast traces how a comedian's offensive Welcome to Country parody travelled from a fringe rally to a mainstream tabloid, and what that journey reveals about how outrage gets laundered into news.
Freelancers Are Drowning in AI Slop Cleanup Work, and Now They're Walking Away
A graphic designer in Spain spent most of 2024 fixing broken AI-generated logos for low pay. Her story captures a quiet crisis spreading across the freelance economy.
Google launches an AI image tool for Workspace, you describe what you want, it builds it
Google Pics is coming to Docs and Slides now, with Drive to follow. It is not Canva. It is not Photoshop. It is a prompt-and-get tool, and that distinction matters.
Google Pics puts AI image editing inside Docs, Slides and Drive
The new tool from Google Workspace uses the Nano Banana model to generate and edit images without leaving the apps most offices already run on.
Stability AI raises $76 million, with music giants and EA among the backers
The maker of Stable Diffusion has pulled in fresh funding from Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music and Electronic Arts, a roster that says a lot about where the company is heading.
Woman says her stepfather used Grok to turn her childhood photo into explicit images
A new plaintiff has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company xAI, alleging the chatbot Grok was used to generate thousands of explicit images of her from a single photo taken when she was 11.
Apple Researchers Find a Hidden Glitch That Can Quietly Corrupt AI-Generated Images
A small number of rogue data points, called outlier tokens, can throw off the systems that create AI images. New research explains what they are and how to fix them.
Google Pulls Its AI Image-Editing Tool from Google Earth After Users Faked War Zones and Border Scenes
A feature that let anyone repaint satellite photos with text prompts lasted less than 48 hours before Google yanked it. Researcher Henk van Ess found no prompts were blocked, generated convincing fake humanitarian crisis scenes over real coordinates, and showed a commercial AI-detection service missed them entirely.
Midjourney Has Bought the Astrology App Co-Star, and the Reasons Are Genuinely Interesting
The AI image company is quietly building a product empire that now includes horoscopes, medical projects and a spa. What does that mean for its 4.3 million stargazers?
How do AI image generators actually work? A plain-English guide
From typed words to finished artwork in seconds: here is what is actually happening inside the machine.
Google Images Turns 25 and Gets a Pinterest-Style Makeover
A scrollable image feed, personalised collections, and AI-generated pictures inside search results are all coming to Google Images in the next few weeks.
Meta Pulls Its New AI Image Tool After Users and a Hollywood Union Call It a Privacy Problem
A feature that let anyone generate images using photos from public Instagram accounts lasted just days before Meta quietly shut it down.
Instagram Won't Let You Filter Out AI Posts, and Its Own AI Tool Is Already Raising Alarm Bells
Instagram's boss says you can know when a post is AI-generated, but you can't hide those posts from your feed. Meanwhile, Meta's Muse Spark image tool lets users drop strangers into AI creations just by tagging them.