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I am an experienced author with expertise in digital communication, stock media, design, and creative tools. I have closely followed and reported on AI developments in this field since its early days. I have gained valuable industry insight through my work with leading digital media professionals since 2014.
I am an experienced author specializing in digital communication, stock media, design, and creative tools, enthusiastically following and reporting on AI developments in this space, from the early days of reverse image search and automatic image editing to the latest image upscaling and AI image generation tools.
I have been researching and writing about digital visual technology, image licensing, and creative design since 2014, working directly with renowned industry experts and shaping up a communication-focused insight on both the supplier and consumer sides of the market. I write for Stock Photo Secrets and Footage Secrets, among other industry publications.
Adobe announced a new, upcoming service for businesses today, based on their family of AI generative models, Adobe Firefly. The new Firefly for Enterprise will combine text-based AI generation with the also new and already available Express for Enterprise platform to give large companies' teams the ability to create stunning visuals in no time. Not only […]
Adobe has officially started integrating Adobe Firefly –its native family of AI generative models– into Creative Cloud today, unveiling Generative Fill. This feature can add content and remove or replace parts of an image from user-input text prompts. Currently available in beta in the desktop app, Generative Fill combines the power of AI image generation […]
Shutterstock‘s leading stock media company announced they’re collaborating with the ITU (International Telecommunication Union)’s AI for Good platform to help develop and scale ethical AI models, tools, and solutions to advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. As part of this teaming-up, Shutterstock will deliver a keynote, about the collaboration between humans and machines regarding visual […]
At today’s first Gen AI Showcase event by Shutterstock, the agency shared a demo of a new feature they will introduce into their Creative Flow design platform: an AI Design Assistant to create images using generative AI more straightforwardly. With a chatGPT-like functionality, this assistant eliminates the need for complex text prompt writing, enabling more users to create […]
The pioneer in ethical AI training datasets vAIsual, has recently included high-resolution and legally clean video datasets on their Dataset Shop, making them available for developers to license and use to train their AI video generative models. As AI text-to-video generators are one of the upcoming and most awaited developments in AI-powered tools (with some […]
As AI image generation keeps gaining a foothold in the creative industry, more companies focus on offering not only AI-powered tools but also insight and guidance for businesses and creatives to make the best out of this technology. Shutterstock is one of those companies. They are soon hosting their first-ever AI-focused virtual conference, Shutterstock Gen AI […]
We are getting closer and closer to having a defined legal frame for AI-generated visuals, as the EU recently added a rule to their EU AI Act that forces all AI tool developers to disclose the datasets used to train their software – including any copyrighted work. If this law passes, it would mean that apps like […]
The multinational eCommerce and digital services firm Amazon has been somewhat conservative in its involvement in AI technology. However, that seems to be changing with their latest announced moves through AWS. Recently the company launched Amazon Bedrock, a platform to develop AI-powered tools through pre-trained AI generative models; they’ve also rolled out an accelerator program for […]
The pioneer in legally clean datasets for AI software training, vAIsual, has today announced a new partnership with Asian stock imagery brand DragonImages, to include their authentic, Asian-focused content into licensable datasets to train AI generative models. This partnership looks at ensuring more ethical and responsible AI image generators by providing an accurate and diverse visual […]
This week, the popular AI generative model for images Midjourney announced that it is stopping the free trials on its platform, citing user abuse as the main reason. According to the company, people were abusing the one-trial-per-person system, and it caused a GPU shortage, so they halted the offer. Coincidentally, extremely realistic, fake photos of famous […]
