Illustration by Haein Jeong / The Verge Thousands of creatives, including famous actors like Kevin Bacon and Kate McKinnon, along with other actors, authors, and musicians, have signed a statement warning that the unpermitted use of copyrighted materials to train AI models threatens the people who made those creative works. 11,500 names are on the list of signatories so far.Here is the one-sentence statement:

Illustration by Haein Jeong / The Verge The upcoming release of Apple Intelligence has spurred the iPhone maker's own what is a photo?" moment. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the company is aiming to provide AI-powered image editing tools that preserve photo authenticity.Our products, our phones, are used a lot," said Federighi. It's important to us that we help purvey accurate information, not fantasy."iOS 18.1 brings a new Clean Up" feature to the Photos app that can quickly remove objects and people from images - a capability that Federighi and WSJ reporter Joanna Stern noted is far tamer than editing tools offered by rivals like Google and Samsung, which can add entire AI-generated assets to images. Despite... Continue reading...