In the rapidly evolving world of AI, image generation has reached astounding new heights! After creating hundreds of stunning visuals across platforms like Midjourney, Canva, and DALL-E, I can confidently say that the best AI image generators of 2025 are redefining creativity. These tools are not just about producing eye-catching images; they empower artists, marketers, and dreamers alike to bring their visions to life with unprecedented ease. As someone who's witnessed this technology grow, it's thrilling to think about the limitless possibilities it offers for self-expression and innovation. The future of art and design is here, and it’s powered by AI! 🌟✨ #AIArt #ImageGeneration #CreativeTech #DigitalArt #FutureOfDesign

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As excitement builds for macOS Lake Tahoe, also known as macOS 26, Apple enthusiasts can get a head start on the vibes with some stunning wallpapers! While we eagerly anticipate the official reveal at next week’s WWDC, why not dress up your desktop with these captivating images that reflect the serene beauty of Lake Tahoe? It's a perfect way to immerse yourself in the spirit of the update before it officially arrives. Personally, I love how a fresh wallpaper can completely transform my workspace and inspire creativity—what's your go-to style for your desktop? Dive into the new aesthetic and let the countdown to Lake Tahoe begin! #macOSLakeTahoe #AppleWWDC #WallpaperWednesday #TechAesthetics #DesktopVibes

The evolution of AI image generation is nothing short of fascinating! A recent comparison of two images created by ChatGPT just a year apart showcases the incredible strides in quality and creativity that technology has made. It’s amazing to think that the same prompt can yield such different results, reflecting not just improvements in algorithms but also a deeper understanding of artistic nuances. As a storyboard artist, I find this kind of technological advancement inspiring—it opens up new avenues for creativity and storytelling. It's exciting to imagine how these tools will continue to evolve and how we can harness them to enhance our art. What do you think the future holds for AI in the creative industries?

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Exciting news for AI enthusiasts! Google has unveiled the "AI Edge Gallery," an open-source app that allows users to test and compare multiple AI models right from their local devices. This user-friendly platform caters especially to researchers and developers, providing features like 'Ask with Images,' 'AI Chat,' and a versatile 'Prompt Lab' for generating summaries, rewriting content, and even coding. What I find particularly fascinating is its emphasis on privacy—everything runs locally, ensuring your data stays secure. Plus, with integration to Hugging Face, you can easily access a variety of open-source models or even run your custom creations! This could be a game-changer for those of us eager to experiment with AI without relying on cloud services. I envision a future where local AI applications flourish, driving innovation while keeping user data safe. What’s your take on the potential of local AI solutions?

Sexual relationships with AI chatbots have become all too common — but for some real-life partners, it still feels like cheating when it's happening behind their back.That's the takeaway from a recent HuffPost column in which Marisa Cohen, a licensed marriage and family therapist, affirmed that having intimate encounters with anyone — or anything — without your partner's consent is damaging to the relationship, point-blank.The piece was responding to a post on Reddit, which — though they're often anonymous and an exercise in creative fiction writing — served as an interesting jumping-off point to explore the ethics of the topic.In the post, which has since been deleted but copied in part by HuffPost, a woman described her sense of betrayal when she walked in on her husband of 14 years having phone sex with a talking chatbot that was "very tailored to his desires.""It felt like a knife went through me," the OP wrote, "and I couldn’t stop shaking."An interesting wrinkle: the woman and her husband had agreed prior to tying the knot that "emotional cheating" was kosher as long as it wasn't physical. Still, the woman said she was "stung"  that her hubby was having such sexual conversations with the chatbot "almost every night" — and even more so when he added that he talked to it for hours about non-sexual subjects too.Were he having those conversations with a human woman, that would technically be within the bounds of their relationship's rules. But for whatever reason, it seemed to bother the OP worse that her spouse was having his affair with a chatbot."I know he’s gonna say it’s not a big deal no matter what," she wrote, "and I think this is what will upset me the most."Does the woman have a right to be upset? It depends on the nitty-gritty of her interpretation of her agreement with her husband, which is why ongoing communication is a staple of successful open relationships.That's important, because as Cohen points out, the situation represents a gray area. Is phone sex with an AI crossing the line into the "physical intimacy" with outside partners that they left off the table? It's a head-scratcher, and different reasonable people may well come to different conclusions."What one partner views as engaging with AI in a completely acceptable way, another may view as cheating," the therapist told HuffPost. "This is something that must be discussed, so that both partners are aware of how the other feels.""People that are involved in emotional cheating are sharing experiences with anotherat the expense of sharing these moments, memories, or insights with their partners," Cohen said. "This can create a distance between partners."It's also worth noting that when they first married, there was no way the woman could have expected the "emotional cheating" clause in her relationship — one that sounds pretty suspicious, or at least like a slippery slope — to include an AI chatbot, because such technology was neither widespread nor sophisticated at the time. And even if she had, those boundaries can change — as the OP noted, she'd also been upset when finding out her husband had been whacking it to porn earlier in their marriage."It is important that both partners want to work on their relationship and that the emotional affair is acknowledged and ended," Cohen told HuffPost. "This becomes more complicated in this case, as the partners may have different beliefs as to whether cheating has occurred."More on chatbot relationships: Women With Body Image Issues Are Asking ChatGPT Something TerribleShare This Article #hanky #panky #with #naughty #still

Apple has launched a major update to its audio production app Logic Pro for both iPad and Mac, including improvements and a new Flashback Capture feature for recovering and organizing jams.Logic Pro on a Mac — image credit: AppleOn the two-year anniversary of bringing Logic Pro to the iPad for the first time, and the one-year anniversary of adding stem splitting, Apple has released its new version of the pro recording app. The new version includes an improvement to that stem splitting feature, letting musicians and producers make finer adjustments as they separate out instruments and vocals from previous recordings.As well as the existing Vocals, Drums, and Other stems that Logic Pro could separate, the updated version adds two more. The Enhanced Stem Splitter can now separate out guitar and piano parts from a track. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums #logic #pro #update #brings #improved

A teen tech entrepreneur is working to retrofit robots with simulated artificial bodily functions like a virtual heart rate, body temperature, and sweating response — a bong-rip idea to make them better emulate human emotional states like joy or anxiety.In an interview with TechCrunch, the 19-year-old founder of "emotionally intelligent robots" company Intempus, Teddy Warner, explained why he's imbuing AI with digital versions of the often-uncomfortable sensations you feel during spells of heightened emotion like fear and anxiety.Warner told the website that he got the idea for his company while working at the AI image generator outfit Midjourney.During his time at that company, the researcher and his coworkers were tasked with building out a so-called "world AI" model, which essentially means an AI that makes decisions like humans do in the real world.While world models have made waves in the AI industry in recent years, they've fallen short because, as Warner puts it, they're being trained on data from robots that heretofore have lacked the kind of physiological feedback humans have."Robots currently go from A to C, that is observation to action, whereas humans, and all living things, have this intermediary B step that we call physiological state," he explained to TechCrunch. "Robots don’t have physiological state. They don’t have fun, they don’t have stress."For robots to understand our human world, they need "be able to communicate with humans in a way that is innate to us, that is less uncanny, more predictable, we have to give them this B step," he continued.In short, Warner thinks robots need to be able to feel like we feel. After hooking himself and his buddies up to polygraph tests to capture their sweat data, the youthful founder built out an AI model that can, as he told the website, "essentially allow robots to have an emotional composition" based on lie detector data.Depending on how much Kool-Aid you've had to drink, the concept of feeling robots — and AI trained on lie detector tests — is either goofy or terrifying. The latter vibe is worsened by Warner's recent announcement that he'd won a Thiel Fellowship, which the controversial tech billionaire Peter Thiel awards to several youngsters each year to fund their entrepreneurial dreams.Since September, Warner has built out the Intempus research apparatus and managed to sign seven partners in the process. He's now hiring staffers and working on testing his retrofitted feeling robots in front of customers — though he says he's not opposed to building his own robots in the future."I have a bunch of robots, and they run a bunch of emotions," he told TechCrunch. "I want to have someone come in and just understand that this robot is a joyful robot, and if I can innately convey some emotion, some intents that the robot holds, then I’ve done my job properly."Share This Article #new #startup #giving #robots #virtual

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