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Meet Flux: New Open-Source AI Image Generator Beats Midjourney, SD3 and Auraflow

Black Forest Labs—the team that helped develop the original Stable Diffusion—has launched Flux, the largest open-source text-to-image model to date. With a staggering 12 billion parameters, Flux can delivery visuals that rival those of Midjourney, and possibly beat any other model currently available—be it open or closed source. Flux comes in three variations: Flux Dev, which is open source with a non-commercial license for community development; Flux Schnell, which is a faster, distilled versio...

Google Ramps Up Fight Against AI Deepfakes in Search Results

In its latest bid to curb unauthorized AI-generated deepfakes, Google is taking new steps to remove and demote websites in searches that have been reported to contain illicit images, the technology and search giant said on Wednesday. An AI deepfake is media created using generative AI to produce videos, pictures, or audio clips that appear real. Many of these fake images depict celebrities like actress Scarlett Johansson, politicians like U.S. President Joe Biden, and, more insidiously, children...