Artificial Intelligence
How to use Google Imagen AI art generator
Over the last few months Google has been busy revealing more details about its artificial intelligence and the services it has been creating such as Imagen on Vertex AI. Google has created Imagen to provide users with a powerful tool for creating and editing high-quality images at scale.
Imagen boasts low latency and enterprise-grade data governance, allows organizations to customize and adapt Imagen to their specific business needs. By generating images with their own content, such as existing products or logos, businesses can leverage the power of mask-free edit, image upscaling, and image captioning across over 300 languages to quickly generate production-ready images.
One of the standout features of Imagen is its visual captioning and Visual Question Answering (VQA) capabilities. These features allow users to extract text information from images, providing a deeper understanding of the visual content. This is particularly useful for businesses that need to analyze and interpret large volumes of visual data.
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The creative industries are fighting back against UK government proposals to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.
The latest protest is a silent album co-written by more than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, and follows a statement signed by 48,000 creatives including Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus in which they warned of a “major, unjust threat” to artists’ livelihoods.
Artificial Intelligence
Kate Bush, New Order, & Damon Albarn Among 1,000 UK Artists Protesting Government’s AI Stance With A Silent Album
Last week, the UK government proposed a new policy that would allow tech companies to use copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence algorithms. Under the proposal, artists and companies could opt out of having their material used for AI, but it would otherwise give the companies unfettered access to people’s creative work without having to license anything. The proposal has incited widespread anger in the UK’s arts communities, and now a team of 1,000 British musicians has released a silent protest album called Is This What We Want?
Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.
In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made by ministers on Tuesday that would allow companies such as Open AI, Google and Meta to train their AI systems on published works unless their owners actively opt out.
