Snappr, a visual content platform and a marketplace for professional photographers and editors, raised a $28M Series B led by Foundry and expands to Europe
Snappr has expanded its visual content platform, along with its network of photographers, to Europe after raising a Series B round, CEO Matt Schiller exclusively tells Axios.
OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars
From Dildo Ads to Furry CEOs Alex Mahadevan / Poynter : My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 X: Paul Yacoubian / @paulyacoubian : Just found out if you try to delete your Sora app account yo...
Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, with an aluminum unibody design, vapor chamber thermal management, Ceramic Shield 2 glass, and three 48MP rear cameras
in hindsight — unwise move to titanium with the iPhone 15 Pro and fixing the overheating issues of the past two models. Marques Brownlee / @mkbhd : No black pro phone is killing me 🫠 @intogalaxyy : It...
An investigation details how predatory men engage in the grooming of child influencers on Instagram under the guise of working as social media professionals
Photographers and other men offer to build online followings for young girls, but some are pedophiles who work with parents to sexualize them.
A coalition of newspapers, writers, movie producers, and others rejects UK's plans to create a copyright exemption for AI companies to train their models
Exclusive: Coalition of musicians, photographers and newspapers insist existing copyright laws must be respected
Meta changes its “Made with AI” label to “AI info” to indicate that images were not necessarily created with AI, but that AI editing tools may have been used
AI Media Is So Real, We Need Help Distinguishing It From Reality Tim Sweezy / HotHardware : Meta Backtracks On Made With AI Labels For Real Photos Following Angry Backlash Kate Irwin / PCMag : Meta Ch...
Instagram confirms testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling, similar to the free version of YouTube
users are not happy about it Kit Eaton / Inc.com : Unskippable ‘Ad Breaks’ Annoy Instagram Users Abhiman Biswas / MySmartPrice : Instagram Might Soon Show Unskippable Ads to Users as Part of Ad Breaks...
Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption, as stock photo companies say traditional photography still has a market but work on building their own AI tools
stock photographers—the writing is already on the wall, and it's not pretty. https://www.wsj.com/... Anthony M. Scialis / @amssvs : Read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about AI ring...
Docs: Adobe offers its network of photographers $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62/minute to ~$7.25/minute on average, to train AI
- OpenAI's Sora has increased competitive pressure on Adobe — Adobe has built AI models with stock library, procured media
A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk. — R Bluesky: @sesmith.bsky.social and @anabrandusescu.bsky.social . Mastodon: @w...