A new film festival will only show movies made using AI
... Runway ML, the artificial intelligence startup that was instrumental in creating the text-to-image tool Stable Diffusion, began taking submissions today for an AI Film Festival slated for February that will only showcase movies created with the help of AI. ...
To qualify for the festival, movies need to be between one and 10 minutes in length and “feature AI-generated content and/or AI-powered editing techniques.” ...
Festival judges plan to evaluate each submission based on quality of composition, cohesion of narrative, originality, as well as the AI techniques used. Top films will be awarded cash prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize, and many of the films will be screened in New York in February and online. ...
See the full story here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90820457/a-new-film-festival-will-only-show-movies-made-using-ai
What is Lensa, the AI self-portrait generator going viral on social media?
Lensa AI — an app that takes photos from your camera roll and transforms them into digital works of art — has taken Instagram by storm over the last few weeks. Though the app is not new, developers at Prisma AI released the new "magic avatar" feature on Nov. 28, which uses artificial intelligence to turn your ordinary selfies into a stylized portrait. ...
Though the app is free to download, you will be prompted to sign up for a subscription for the in-app photo and video editor, which starts at $40 per year. There is a 7-day free trial available if you intend on using all of Lensa's features. After you choose your photos, the app will prompt you to pay $3.99 for a series of 50 images, or a few extra dollars for 100 or 200 photos. ...
The algorithm used by Lensa AI is derived from Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image artificial intelligence model that has been accused of stealing art by generating images from more than 2 billion datasets, including from places like Pinterest, Tumblr, DeviantArt, Blogspot and Fine Art America, The Verge reported earlier this year. ...
Other users are concerned about Lensa AI and Prisma Labs' terms of service and privacy policies, which outline how the company uses data it collects from users, including the AI-generated photos it spits out for a small fee. Though users are greeted by a prompt to read and agree to these policies before they can make a purchase or upload their images, users are pointing to a few concerning details about Lensa's policy on user content. ...
See the full story here: https://www.phillyvoice.com/lensa-ai-prisma-labs-app-ai-self-portraits-camera-roll-artists-privacy-generator-how-to-use/
Imagining the Future of Fandom
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SSI (Self-Sovereign Identifiers) vs. FIDO (Fast IDentity Online)
The concept of passwordless, cryptographically protected digital identification has been around for a very long time. Today there are two competing technologies offering differing visions for our potential future digital identities: FIDO2, a specification from the FIDO Alliance, and SSI, a catchall phrase for a group of decentralized identity schemas.
FIDO’s mission is to eliminate the password and make multi-factor authentication (MFA) easy, fast, and ubiquitous. The standard is singularly focused on security. Google brags, “On the employee side, there has not been a successful phishing attack against Google’s 85,000+ employees since requiring use of FIDO security keys.”
But FIDO2 is a centralized system, and while it does a wonderful job with security, it does not offer individuals complete control of their own data.
On the other hand, SSI is a set of open digital identity standards that gives individuals control over the information they use to prove who they are. It can be used to exchange data between issuers, holders, and verifiers without the involvement of any central authority.
You can think of your SSI as a non-transferable, non-fungible token (NFT) or smart contract that allows you to choose what data you wish to reveal and have them verified by anyone you authorize to view them on a public blockchain.
Web3 has the potential to “flip the script” for marketers. Instead of collecting email addresses and hoping to tag users with some form of digital ID, a potential customer could enter your funnel by allowing you to know their identity via their SSI. This would allow you (the marketer) to follow the customer’s digital wallet and have access to the data the individual wanted you to have about them. With this subtle shift, it now becomes possible for you to create a system where both you (the marketer) and the user (potential customer) can both share in the value you create. ...
Read the full story here: https://www.shellypalmer.com/2022/12/imagining-the-future-of-fandom/?mc_cid=d41cbc819e&mc_eid=116e9f337b
‘The Peripheral’ and 9 Other Shows that Features Cutting-Edge Virtual Reality
PhilNote: some of these I hadn't heard of!
See the full story here: https://collider.com/the-peripheral-best-shows-about-virtual-reality/
Autonomous Cruising Technology Is Poised to Transform Superyacht Design. Here’s How.
PhilNote: Very Fritz Lang's Metropolis. It really takes the fun out of being the ship's captain.
Autonomous navigation on superyachts will turn the pilothouse into an augmented-reality center buried below-decks. That frees up prime real estate on top of the superyacht for the owners.
... We could soon see another major transition, this time towards fully autonomous navigation. “When the technologies we’re working on are ready, they’ll bring a revolution to wheelhouse design,” says Massimo Minnella, founder of Team Italia, which specializes in creating custom pilothouses, including the spaceship-looking Air Bridge. ...
Translation: Superyachts may no longer need a conventional bridge on the upper forward deck of the vessel. Designers can use those upper decks with 360-degree, uninterrupted views, for owners and guests. Feadship’s Pure, for instance, has relocated its “Command Center” pilothouse to a lower deck, using 360-degree augmented reality displays to provide clear views of the water, with navigational data projected onto the screen. The captain stands behind a small console deep inside the boat, with no windows, to control the ship. The space that had been a pilothouse is now free for other uses. ...
See the full story here: https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/autonomous-navigation-transform-superyacht-design-1234777654/
