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I tried Runway, a buzzy generative AI platform that lets you transform images and videos with text. The results were not what I expected.

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I asked Runway to generate a portrait of me. The result looked eerily like Johnny Depp.

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An artist who won an award at a world-renowned photography competition says the winning image was actually generated by AI

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Boris Eldagsen with DALL-E 2. Courtesy Photo Edition Berlin

AI image generators' latest challenge? Depicting unicycles.

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An AI-generated image of Angel Reese riding a unicycle
AI image generators struggle with unicycles. When prompted, Stable Diffusion 2 made this image of basketball player Angel Reese riding a "unicycle."

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Renaissance artists da Vinci and Botticelli may have used egg yolk in their masterpieces, new study finds

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Lamentation over the Dead Christ. Found in the collection of Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Botticelli’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ — one of the artworks found by the study to have egg yolk in the paint.

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  • Renaissance artists may have used egg yolk to protect and alter their paintings, scientists find. 

How to use DALL·E 2 and Craiyon, the AI art tools that can generate images from any text prompt

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A picture created by DALL·E mini using the prompt “A crowd of robots staring at a painting in a museum.”
DALL·E 2 is an impressive leap forward from previous image generation programs.

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Here's why one gram of pure Tyrian purple pigment costs almost $3,000

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A woman used ChatGPT to make strange crochet animals that went viral on TikTok. Viewers seized on them as an example of AI's failings.

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Alexandra Woolner and a crochet narwhal made from an AI-generated pattern.

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Someone donated $400,000 to save an apartment that an artist spent 33 years filling with bizarre works including a lion's head fireplace

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The lion's head fireplace, with large teeth
Ron Gittins spent 33 years transforming his apartment into a bizarre fantasy world.

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I built a 6-figure company designing sets for photoshoots and events. Here's how I turned my college hobby into a business.

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Dotun Abeshinbioke.

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An anonymous 'art-world family' took out a job ad for an executive assistant to make their life easier 'in every way possible'

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A recent posting for an executive assistant for a high profile art world family went viral.

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