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AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out
In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen.
This Is the First Image of Planets Orbiting a Sun-Like Star in Deep Space
An international team of astronomers snapped this photo of a young star and its two gigantic planets from a distance of 300 light years.
I Want to Celebrate Freedom for All Bodies at Carnival
Its runways often center conventionally-sized, racially ambiguous, fair-skinned women.
This Stunning Image Made With Pure Code Is Like a Mood Ring For Your Browser
Diana Smith's work is digital art on ultra-hard mode.
Models Talk About the Worst Ways Their Photos Were Used
Ending up on an ugly men's T-shirt or as a meme hated around the world—models often have no say in how their pictures are put.
NASA's Closer to Saturn Than Ever—Here Are Pics to Prove It
Check out the first images from the Cassini Spacecraft’s dive between Saturn’s rings.
Winning Photos from the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards
The winning entries in the Open and Youth competitions are stellar.
Fan Installation Shows Shifting Political Tides in Real Time
Do Something Good’s ‘blow_hot_and_cold’ processes the sentiment of tweets in real-time, satirizing the shifting winds of political opinion.
French Artist Brings the Star Wars Universe Down to Earth
Star Wars spaceships crash-land in the streets of modern cities.
The Shifting Image of the Teenage Female Pop Star: How We Got from Britney Spears to Lorde
Female pop stars are embracing a punky grit and millennial darkness that is eclipsing the bubblegum pop of the past.
Landing on Titan: A Slow-Motion Close-Up
Ten years ago, the ESA's Huygens probe touched down on Saturn's bizarre, possibly life-harboring moon.