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What Does Generative AI Mean for Bird and Nature Photography?

To create the side-by-side images that accompany contributor Allen Murabayashi’s essay below, we asked the six photographers who won the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards to describe their photos in a few sentences to someone who couldn’t see the image. With their permission, we fed their descriptions into a popular AI image generator. The results, shown alongside the originals, are based on this single prompt. — The Editors

In 2012, footage of an endangered marooned Bengal tiger in a lifeboat captivated filmgoers. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi adaptation was clearly fiction, but many viewers didn’t realize that the majority of tiger

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Photographs documented US Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s groundbreaking career in politics

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s groundbreaking career in politics was documented in photos from the moment she was sworn in as San Francisco mayor in the aftermath of tragedy to her long-awaited return to the US Senate after illness earlier this year.

The pictures start in black and white, showing a young Feinstein as she leads an estimated 15,000 marchers in memory of slain Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. She became the city’s first female mayor after their assassination in 1978 and held the office for nearly a decade.

As mayor, he helped secure millions

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Photo giant Getty took a leading AI image-maker to court. Now it’s also embracing the technology

Anyone looking for a beautiful photograph of a desert landscape can find many choices from Getty Images, the stock photography collection.

But say you’re instead looking for a wide angle shot of a “hot pink plastic saguaro cactus with large arms that stick out, surrounded by sand, in landscape at dawn.” Getty Images says you can now ask its artificial intelligence image-generator to make one on the spot.

The Seattle-based company is taking a two-pronged approach to the threat and opportunity that AI poses to its business. First, it sued a leading purveyor of AI-generated images earlier this year for

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Leica’s latest camera encrypts verification info into every photo

The compact and discreet nature of Leica M rangefinder cameras once made them a popular choice for photojournalists, long before autofocus became pretty much a prerequisite. But while M cameras these days are more likely to be in the hands of an amateur or enthusiast than a conflict photographer shooting for Reuters or The Associated PressLeica’s new M11-P has a novel approach to verifying the authenticity of photos.

The $9,195 M11-P follows mostly the same playbook as Leica’s prior “P” variant. At its core, it’s mostly the same as the 60-megapixel manual focus M11 rangefinder it’s based on, but

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Woman’s iPhone photo of son rejected from Sydney competition after judges ruled it could be AI | Photography

Suzi Dougherty was chuffed when a happy snap she took of her son on her iPhone turned out so well.

She was so happy with the sharp, colour-saturated picture of him posing with mannequins at a Gucci exhibition that she had a copy printed off for her mother and entered it in a local photography competition.

Four judges considered the photo – and they loved it.

Then they rejected it. They were suspicious it had been generated by artificial intelligence.

Dougherty jokes that he’s just upset he didn’t win. “I was flattered,” she says, adding that her 18-year-old son, Caspar,

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5 Beverly Hills middle school students expelled following AI-generated nude photo scandal


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In response to a group of Beverly Hills middle school students creating and circulating AI generated nude photos of classmates, the district’s school board voted this week to expel five students involved in the scandal.

At a special Beverly Hills Unified School District board meeting Wednesday night, the expulsion of the five “egregiously involved eighth-grade students” was approved.

School officials say 16 students were victimized by the AI-generated nude photos.

Beverly Vista Middle School staff was first alerted about the photos on Wednesday, Feb. 21. According to the school district, the faces of students were

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Photography prohibited inside Kedarnath Temple; violators to face legal consequences

Warning boards have been installed at Kedarnath to implement the guidelines strictly, said the Temple Committee President. Devotees during their pilgrimage to the Kedarnath Temple, in Rudraprayag. Files

Warning boards have been installed at Kedarnath to implement the guidelines strictly, said the Temple Committee President. Devotees during their pilgrimage to the Kedarnath Temple, in Rudraprayag. Files | Photo Credit: ANI

Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee on July 17 announced a complete prohibition of photography and videography inside Kedarnath Temple premises.

The temple committee has also posted warning signs throughout the Kedarnath Temple premises, advising visitors that if they are seen taking pictures or recordings, legal action will be taken against them.

Boards are put up in several places of the temple premises which read, ‘Do not enter the temple

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The 2023 Audubon Photography Awards: The Top 100

Another year, another fantastic Audubon Photography Awards. For the 14 installment of our annual competition, we had more than 2,200 individuals from across the United States and Canada submit almost 9,000 photographs and videos. Then the hard part begins: After reviewing every anonymous image and video file, three panels of expert judges selected just 13 winners and honorable mentions. Be sure to check them out if you haven’t already.

But as always, with so many amazing submissions, we couldn’t stop there. So here are 100 more of our favorite photos for your enjoyment. Shared in no particular order, these shots

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