Leading tech companies are competing to mainstream the use of text-to-image generators by integrating them into popular tools such as Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop, YouTube, and ChatGPT. They are working to address concerns regarding copyright theft and troubling content. Adobe has released an AI generator called Firefly, built on its own Adobe Stock image collection, to avoid legal and ethical problems.
AI Image Generators: A year ago, it was a relatively small group of early adopters and hobbyists playing with cutting-edge image generators such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and OpenAI s DALL-E.
Privacy experts said that what was once primarily restricted to celebrities and those who were in the public eye will now see increased use to target regular citizens in order to blackmail, bully, shame or tarnish reputation.
A German artist has sparked an angry row after winning a prestigious photography prize with an entry that was generated by artificial intelligence. Boris Eldagsen eventually rejected the gong from the Sony World Photography Awards after concluding that such competitions were not yet equipped to handle AI entries. Last year, an AI-generated artwork won a prize at the Colorado State Fair, prompting soul-searching in the art world.