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Archives for September 2023

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Here come the AI-generated subliminal messages.

Do you see it? Back up from the screen a little and squint. There it is, that’s the future of subliminal messaging enabled by generative AI tools like Stable Diffusion. Here’s how Motherboard describes it:

The technique, called ControlNet, essentially lets users have more control over the generated image by specifying additional inputs—in this case, letting you create images or words within other images.

Must. Obey.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Firefly’s token model isn’t an experiment, Ashley Still says.

Free and paid Adobe users get credits to use its generative AI tools, Still says, because they don’t want someone to have to pick between buying an add-on or just making stuff.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
We’re getting a live demo of Photoshop on the web.

In the first demo, the presenter is removing the out of focus dog at the front of this frame. He’s using Adobe’s generative fill to fill in the space where the dog left.

The stage at Code 2023.
Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
“I am holding out the need for soul and human stories.”

Casey Bloys, the chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content, is pretty bearish on AI-generated TV shows and movies right now.

Artifact is becoming Twitter, tooArtifact is becoming Twitter, too
Jay Peters
Alex Cranz
Alex Cranz
Meta’s AI chatbots imagine a world where you don’t need friends.

Instead of friends that help you brainstorm your kid’s birthday party or plan your next campaign in Dungeons and Dragons you can interact with chatbots, including one that looks and sounds like Snoop Dog....we think. It didn’t work on stage and Zuckerberg moved on with the presentation.

Which is basically what I do when my friends don’t respond to my galaxy brain texts at one in the morning.

Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3
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In a rare interview, Meta’s CEO dives into where AI is going next, the new Quest 3 headset, and his ongoing rivalry with Elon Musk.

Alex Heath and Nilay Patel
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Microsoft’s CTO doesn’t want to read spammy AI-generated content, either.

Even though Microsoft offers AI tools that help people create content, Kevin Scott doesn’t want AI to completely take over content creation — hear him talk about it in this clip from Code 2023.

Alex Cranz
Alex Cranz
AI-generated stickers are just one of the AI-related tools coming from Meta.

I’m excited to see what kind of abominations I can create with the stickers. We’ve got the story explaining those stickers, and the other tools, right here.

Meta is putting AI chatbots everywhere

The Meta AI assistant is coming to WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, along with dozens of AI characters based on celebrities like MrBeast and Charli D’Amelio.

Alex Heath
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
While we wait for Meta Connect... here’s some unrelated news.

We’re just minutes away from Meta Connect, and Reuters is reporting that Alexis Black Bjorlin, the executive overseeing the company’s AI chip efforts, is getting replaced by Yee Jiun Song, Meta’s vice president of engineering.