It was inevitable but the day is finally here. Instagram just launched an AI chatbot for its direct messaging and it is capable of generating images, recommending content, and helping users tailor messages, among other things. Part of Meta AI, the Instagram variant reminds us of the AI bot that Snap rolled out not too […]
Author: Kehl Bayern
Kehl is our staff photography news writer since 2017 and has over a decade of experience in online media and publishing and you can get to know him better here and follow him on Insta.
It’s always better to be late than never show up in the first place, right? Well, for some of us, HDR on social media makes perfect sense but we’re just now getting it on Instagram and Meta’s new competitor with X (formerly known as Twitter), Threads, in a move that couldn’t come soon enough for […]
The question of where AI platforms are getting their training material is a hot topic today. After all, if you were a photographer or artist, you would want to know if you’re helping train something that could potentially put you out of work. Well, Adobe put some of those questions to rest, at least as […]
The headline says it all but it definitely doesn’t say enough. A contest held by legendary rock band Pink Floyd took a sideways turn when it was announced that the winner of the contest and, ostensibly, some $10,000 as the prize, was none other than an AI-generated music video from Damián Gaume, PetaPixel reports. As […]
A few years ago, the big trend was “authenticity.” Instagram was “too artificial,” thus a bunch of more “authentic” experiences cropped up. Now that whole premise is being challenged by the advent of AI-generated content although this isn’t the first attack on social media’s notions around what is real and genuine when it comes to […]
Back in the old days of the Internet, hosting images was a big business. Heck, it still is in many ways even though there are a ton of options out there. One of the old titans of the early social media days was Photobucket. Now the owner of some 13 billion images, the company recently […]
