in the age of algorithm-driven media

Visual literacy, creativity and authorship | Media Education Lab

Read here about our full webinar series on AI in the Classroom In this fifth workshop, we will explore the influence of these complex mathematical formulas on the visual arts and their potential to both enhance and distort our understanding of reality. Beginning with a review on the history of visua…

Prompting ChatGPT May 24 Version about: Key events in the history of visual media. List examples of moral panic surrounding new (for its time) media. Explain techno-utopia, techno-panic and the techlash phenomenon. (will open ChatGPT and the concrete answers to the quoted three prompts)

Guides: Artificial Intelligence Tools for Research and Writing: Popular Tools

A collection of AI-related writing and research tools and bots Popular AI Tools

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Unintentional ASMR- Picus News With Eliza Cassan

USC Cinematic Arts | Toward an Algorithmic Pedagogy

Star Wars: How We Brought Carrie Fisher Back

Inside The VFX – BBC Click

Deepfakes: Is This Video Even Real?

NYT Opinion – YouTube

Years and years

Deep Fake scene

Tenacious D – Video Games (Official Video)

Aristotle Roufanis photography- Alone Together: https://aristotle.photography/

Artificial Loneliness

In the Age of AI (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

A documentary exploring how artificial intelligence is changing life as we know it — from jobs to privacy to a growing rivalry between the U.S. and China.FRO…

Harry Potter By Balenciaga | Step by Step Tutorial

Alternative to D-ID. Try https://bit.ly/412eNx0 😊And here is a comparison of the two tools:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gqHaOkkQ5c🔹 Music track for the…

The Trump AI Deepfakes Had an Unintended Side Effect

The most crucial element of the fake Trump-arrest images is not that they are misleading. It is that they are cinematic.

I thought I was immune to being fooled online. Then I saw the pope in a coat | Joel Golby

An encounter with an AI-generated image of his holiness has changed me: I now have sympathy for credulous baby boomers, says writer Joel Golby

Midjourney has banned “arrested” prompts after a journalist created viral AI images of Donald Trump

What We’re Reading

Viewer or voyeur? The morality of reportage photography

Do you look away from images of real-life horror, or look closer? A series of shocking photographs from Somalia asks disturbing questions about the ethics of bearing witness

Thinking Made Visible: The Winners of Our One-Pager Contest

We challenged teenagers to respond to the Times piece of their choice by creating an illustrated guide to what they gleaned. Here are our favorites.

It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that’s only the start

Powerful artificial intelligence tools that can create video, audio, text and pictures are raising fears the technology will supercharge disinformation and propaganda by bad actors.

How a fake AI photo of a Pentagon blast went viral and briefly spooked stocks

A falsified photograph of an explosion near the Pentagon spread widely on social media Monday morning, briefly sending U.S. stocks lower in possibly the first instance of an AI-generated image moving the market.

🤖 AI isn’t ‘hallucinating.’ We are.

Why ‘hallucination’ is a problematic term (hint – it’s not just because it anthropomorphizes the technology!) and what to do about it.

Fake animal news abounds on social media as coronavirus upends life

Bogus stories of wild animals flourishing in quarantined cities gives false hope—and viral fame.

Dolphins Spotted in Venice’s Grand Canal—for Real This Time

The coast guard and a rescue organization took about two hours to guide the cetaceans out of the canal

case law around copyright in artificial intelligence generated art

Here is a summary of the case law around copyright in artificial intelligence generated art based on the search results: – The US Copyright Office has eased its stance in new guidelines, and a decision on a comic book created using artificial intelligence. The Copyright Office has stated that there…

U.S. Copyright Office Rules A.I. Art Can’t Be Copyrighted

An image generated through artificial intelligence lacked the “human authorship” necessary for protection

New US copyright rules protect only AI art with ‘human authorship’

The US Copyright Office has eased its stance in new guidelines, and a decision on a comic book created using artificial intelligence

Understanding media by Marshall McLuhan | Open Library

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan, Marshal McLuhan, unknown edition,

Midjourney generated images after the two prompts proposed during the break-out rooms sessions:

The prompt that evoke the above four images was: Smog over the Hudson river in New York

And the one that turned into these four is: Show the impact from wild fires in Nova Scotia

and below are the „answers“ of Dall-E

Instructing Dall-E for the visual style you want it to recreate generates different results: 3D art, futuristic, water colors, photo-realistic, etc. In this case, no additional instructions about the style were given – same prompts from the Midjourney expriments