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Alright, buckle up buttercups. OpenAI, never content to let sleeping algorithms lie, has dropped GPT-4o on our heads. And this time, it’s packing an image generator with aspirations of unseating Midjourney, Stability AI, and even Adobe. Bold move, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off. The AI image landscape? A chaotic swirl of decent…
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OpenAI, never one to let a Tuesday pass without some form of existential dread, has unleashed GPT-4o’s native image generation upon the unsuspecting masses. Forget painstakingly crafting prompts for DALL-E (which, by the way, you can still use, says OpenAI, as if we’d forget their firstborn). Now, apparently, creating images is as easy as…
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Grok, the everything-app’s AI sidekick, now dabbles in image editing. Naturally, we at 404.blog felt obligated to see if our Photoshop subscriptions were about to become obsolete. Spoiler alert: they aren’t. But the journey was… interesting. Grok lets you upload a photo and then, using the magic of AI, alter it with text prompts.…
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The AI image generation space is getting crowded. Every week, it seems, a new model emerges, promising to be the next big thing. Most fizzle out, remembered only by the silicon they briefly inhabited. But sometimes, sometimes, a contender appears that makes you sit up and take notice. Enter: Reve Image 1.0. Reve AI,…
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Another day, another AI image generator promising to turn your wildest text-based dreams into pixelated reality. This time, it’s Reve Image, and the internet is buzzing like a poorly grounded refrigerator. Why? Because it’s good. Maybe too good. We’ve been down this road before, haven’t we? AI models churning out increasingly realistic (or surreal,…
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Alright, let’s get one thing straight: deepfakes of Nic Cage singing sea shanties are objectively hilarious. But while you’re chuckling, remember that somewhere, some nefarious individual is using the same tech to impersonate your CEO and drain your company’s coffers. Suddenly, not so funny, is it? The stats are grim. A recent HYPR report…
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The year is 2025. We’re all supposed to be driving flying cars powered by sustainably-sourced unicorn tears. Instead, we’re arguing about AI-generated audio clips of politicians slagging off tech billionaires. Progress, I guess? This week’s installment of ‘Things That Should Never Exist, But Do Anyway’ features a deepfake audio recording of US Vice President…
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So, Europol’s having a mild panic attack about AI and organized crime. Apparently, HAL 9000 isn’t just opening pod bay doors anymore; it’s now running sophisticated con jobs. And while we’re all busy worrying about AI art and chatbots writing bad poetry, a far more sinister threat is emerging: deepfake audio scams, aimed squarely…
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Remember the good old days when celebrity scandals involved actual celebrities making questionable decisions? Those were simpler times. Now, thanks to the relentless march of technology, anyone can be digitally inserted into a pornographic film, regardless of their consent (or, you know, acting ability). Bloomberg recently highlighted the growing problem of deepfake AI pornography,…
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Remember that time you accidentally tagged your mom in a meme? Now imagine that meme is a hyperrealistic, AI-generated nude of you circulating the school. Welcome to the new reality for some teenagers. Elliston Berry, a 14-year-old from North Texas, found herself in this digital nightmare when a classmate used AI to create deepfake…