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Midjourney wants everyone to be able to edit images thanks to AI

Midjourney, the well-known AI image generation platform, has announced the launch of an enhanced web tool that will allow users to edit any image uploaded from its page. According to David Holtz, CEO of Midjourney, this new feature will be available early this week and will enable advanced edits, such as retexturing objects in images to “repaint” their colors and details just by giving instructions. The enhanced editing tool will initially be available only to “a subset of the current community” and will have stricter moderation, both human and through “new AI moderators […].”

Midjourney, the well-known AI image generation platform, has announced the launch of an enhanced web tool that will allow users to edit any uploaded image from their page. According to David Holtz, CEO of Midjourney, this new feature will be available early this week and will enable advanced edits, such as retexturing objects in images to ‘repaint’ their colors and details just by giving instructions.

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The enhanced editing tool will be available only to ‘a subset of the current community’ initially, and will have stricter moderation, both human and through ‘new more advanced AI moderators’ to prevent potential abuses, as noted by Holtz in a post on his official Discord server.

Image editing with artificial intelligence has become quite a controversial topic in recent months. Google, for example, has already launched quite powerful AI editing features that currently do not provide visual indications that the images have indeed been modified by AI. On the other hand, Meta continues to research how to label AI-edited images versus those generated from scratch.

In this context, Midjourney stands out for its commitment to using Digital Source Type, from IPTC, a technical standard that incorporates metadata into images to indicate if they have been generated by AI. Even so, the company has not adopted the C2PA technology, which tracks the complete provenance of an image.

The risks associated with these new tools are real, as they could facilitate the creation of deepfakes or copyright infringement. According to Clarity, a deepfake detection company, the creation of these has increased by 900% compared to last year. Additionally, a recent survey by YouGov shows that 85% of Americans are concerned about the spread of misleading deepfakes.

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Midjourney feels that it is time to start developing hardware and could start with Saruman’s palantir

Midjourney, the company known for its AI-powered image generation tool, has officially announced its foray into the world of hardware. The announcement was made through its official Twitter account, where the company also invited potential candidates to apply to be part of its new hardware division.

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David Holz, founder of Midjourney and former CTO of Leap Motion, leads this new project. A few months ago, Holz hired Ahmad Abbas, with whom he had previously worked at Leap Motion. Abbas, who was also responsible for the hardware of Apple Vision Pro glasses for five years, now appears on LinkedIn as “head of hardware” at Midjourney.

Although the company has not yet revealed what type of device they are developing, their recent posts on Twitter have generated all kinds of speculation. However, Midjourney has already confirmed that their device “will not be a pendant,” in response to the growing trend of AI hardware devices that have not been successful. Additionally, the company mentioned that they have “multiple efforts underway” and hinted that there are “definitely opportunities for more form factors,” suggesting that they are exploring various options.

Friend, one of the many AI pendants marketed that have failed to take off

A tweet from Holz a few months ago already hinted at this step by Midjourney. On that occasion, the company’s founder commented: “we will make the orb,” in response to a joke about creating a spherical device inspired by Saruman’s palantir in The Lord of the Rings.

Despite the activity on Twitter, Midjourney has been careful not to provide a specific timeline, so it could be months before the product is revealed. For now, the company joins others in the search for what the future of AI-based hardware should be.

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We have already crowned the first Miss AI and the matter is quite scary

And during the following decades, it became immensely popular until, nowadays, it has turned into more of an old-fashioned curiosity than anything else. However, we did not anticipate the boldness of -ai- artificial intelligence.

The first Miss World contest in history was held in 1951 in the United Kingdom and consisted of a bikini competition, a garment that had just been introduced and was still seen as perverse at the time. And during the following decades, it became immensely popular until, nowadays, it has become more of an old and outdated curiosity than anything else. However, we did not count on the audacity of the -ai- artificial intelligence.

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Queen for a Day

Now, an AI-created influencers contest has chosen the most beautiful among ten people who do not exist, but are created by Midjourney, Stable Diffusion or Dall-E 3. If they had shown us this ten years ago in a futuristic movie, we wouldn’t have believed it. The thing is that these ten candidates have gone through a casting of over 1500 computer-generated influencers, in an award created by the World AI Creators Awards.

Of course, influencers have defended different causes, from LGBT inclusion to cleaning the oceans or mental health, and they have shown their personality (that is, that of their creators) through different posts on Instagram. The winner of this charade has been the Moroccan Kenza Layli, who has 200,000 followers on Instagram and 45,000 on TikTok, and who believes that the prize will bring “diversity and inclusivity” to the world of AI creator. In other words, she will write, instead of “a white woman”, “a woman who is not white”. Laziness has also reached beauty.

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Corporate espionage? Several employees from Stability AI would be behind an alleged attack on Midjourney

Midjourney says it has banned employees from Stability AI, its rival company, accusing them of causing a disruption to the systems earlier this month during an attempt to extract data from its generative AI.

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The AI company released an update on their Discord server on March 2nd, acknowledging that a prolonged server interruption was preventing generated images from appearing in user galleries.

In a summary of a meeting that took place on March 6th, Midjourney stated that behind this interruption was “botnet activity from paid accounts” (which the company specifically links to Stability AI employees).

Nick St. Pierre, a Twitter user who was able to hear the details of this meeting, said on the social network that Midjourney’s services were disrupted because “someone at Stability AI was trying to take over all the pairs of prompts and images in the middle of Saturday night.” St. Pierre also confirmed that Midjourney had linked several payment accounts to a person on the Stability AI data team.

Pierre directed his accusations at the CEO of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, who responded on Twitter saying that he was investigating the situation and that Stability had not ordered such actions to be carried out.

“It is very confusing that two accounts have done this, and furthermore the team has not been scraping, as we have been using synthetic and other types of data, given that SD3 surpasses all other models,” said Mostaque, referring to the AI model Stable Diffusion 3, currently in preview phase. The executive stated that if the disruption was caused by a Stability employee, this would not have been intentional and “obviously it was not a DDoS attack”.

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After this incident, Midjourney said on their Discord server that they have banned all Stability AI employees from using their service “indefinitely”. In addition, the company has implemented a new policy that will similarly prohibit access to employees of any company that engages in “aggressive automation” or causes service disruptions.

Even more Apple AI: now we can animate photos with just one sentence

With Keyframer, Apple reinforces, once again, its position in the field of artificial intelligence and shows us another card.

Apple continues its advance in the field of artificial intelligence —without making too much noise— with the launch of a tool capable of animating static images using large language models (LLMs) based on simple text prompts. This tool, named “Keyframer”, represents a qualitative leap in the way we can carry out animations with photographs and is one more piece of a puzzle that Apple should show us soon.

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Another piece of Apple’s strategy

The new Apple tool, detailed in depth in a recent paper titled “Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design Using Large Language Models”, allows us to transform scalable vector graphics (SVG) images into dynamic animations using simple text commands. For example, when loading an image of a spaceship, the user can request “generate three designs where the sky changes color progressively and the stars blink”, and Keyframer will produce the necessary CSS code to carry out this animation.

The main advantage of Keyframer, however, lies in its ability to allow users to refine their creations through successive indications, thus optimizing the creative process without the need to define all design elements from the beginning. According to Apple, which has interviewed designers and engineers, this tool is “much faster when it comes to making animations” and “does things that used to take several hours to do”.

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With Keyframer, Apple reinforces, once again, its position in the field of artificial intelligence and shows us one more card —perhaps its application in Keynote— of its strategy before iOS 18 arrives and completely changes what our iPhone will be able to do with a simple request to Siri.

Revolutionizing Imaging Technology: Nvidia Unveils Perfusion, an AI with Extraordinary Results

Nvidia has presented Perfusion, a new artificial intelligence capable of generating images with more promising results than those of the competition.

When it comes to generating images automatically based on your own ideas, the two most popular artificial intelligences among users are DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. Both are tools capable of creating images with astonishing quality, to the point where they can appear real.

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Now, a heavyweight in the technology industry wants to compete head-to-head with these popular AIs and has launched its own image-generating artificial intelligence. Nvidia, the company known for creating graphics cards for PCs, has developed Perfusion, an AI that allows the creation of images from natural language descriptions.

By simply inputting the image we want to generate using text, Perfusion will produce an image that closely matches the given instructions. Yes, the result will be “approximate” as it is not a perfect image-generating AI (currently, none are).

Despite Perfusion not being perfect (yet), the results obtained through this AI seem to be more accurate than those of its competitors. Nvidia’s artificial intelligence is based on Stable Diffusion, a language model created by LMU Munich and Runway, but it includes certain mechanisms that simultaneously generate multiple concepts in new images.

Perfusion offers users the ability to combine different customized elements with a set of images that function as concepts, thus creating images with much greater precision than other image generators by having greater control in the generation process.

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Nvidia is fully immersed in the world of AI. In addition to Perfusion, Nvidia has also developed Omniverse Audio2Face, a tool that enables the generation of 3D animations from audio. Furthermore, it has been known since the beginning of the year that the company is developing AI-driven drivers to optimize the performance of its graphics cards.

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