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Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images Company promotes its tool as safe from content scraped from the internet.

Adobe… 🫥 that was found they trained Firefly with Midjourney

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FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION < Content Research Papers Copyright, Al, and Great Po... RESEARCH PAPERS Copyright, Al, and Great Power Competition JANUARY 21, 2025 Joshua Levine and Tim Hwang Click here to download a pdf of the full paper.

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1/10 What are Genai astroturf orgs like the “Foundation of American “Innovation” up to? Pushing to take your hard work, property and creative innovation for free by destroying the few protections in our constitution.

They know laws are not in their favor so making theft legal is their answer.

🚨UK People🚨

1/7 Your government is proposing a HUGE change to copyright law, where they give away YOUR works to Tech companies to profit from for FREE!

A disgusting overreach that will cause irreparable harm to ALL creatives and beyond .You have one chance to stop it, read how below👇

“The best camera is the one you have with you”

The Federal Goverment teamed up with Pentagram to redesign their website performance.gov Pentagram on of the world’s leading ad agencies used Midjourney, rather than hire actual artists.

Pentagram, one of the leading ad agencies in the world, displaced artists on a huge project for the US Federal Government, and used Midjourney all throughout the website.

The image depicts the media Midjourney generated, plastered all over the new US government website.

1/6 So one of the BIGGEST ad agencies in the world, got a giant project by the US GOVERNMENT to design it’s website. The agency used Midjourney.

So is the US government now into the business of displacing artists and elevating a tech that stole from artists and is terrible for the environment?

Folks, always stay safe! Use Glaze or Nightshade! Protect yourselves 🙌

Make them think twice before doing this!

Also @hf.co should take this dang dataset down. It’s done do without company and more importantly, users individual consent.

London at night

Guardians of the Galaxy had a green character too, and X-Men had a blue one. They can use blue or green as background.

The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way

The modern Final Cut user cannot comprehend this. 🎬

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Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky!

18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️

Walking around 🚶‍➡️😎

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Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts It does use AI to power other parts of the platform, though.

Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts

Bluesky needs something like Trending Topics to know what is happening right now

It happens I open Bluesky and X and not sure which app I’m in 🙂‍↔️😂

Blender 4.3 has Release Candidate in Downloads page 👀🤌

Vectors design on Affinity Designer app

Art and illustration made in Affinity Designer #art #vector #affinity

Bluesky looks more Twitter than X it gave me a deja vu, maybe is the colour scheme… 😬