Christie's inaugural auction of AI-generated art has concluded, generating significant controversy and achieving a total sales figure of $728,000. The event sparked debate regarding the role of artificial intelligence in artistic creation and the valuation of digital art.

La Asociación China de Go publicó recientemente un comunicado en el que impone un severo castigo a la ajedrecista profesional Qin Siyue (nacida en 2006) por hacer trampa en el Campeonato Nacional de Go (individual) categoría femenina. El comunicado revela que Qin Siyue fue descubierta el 15 de diciembre de 2024 llevando un teléfono móvil y utilizando un programa de inteligencia artificial para hacer trampa. Tras la investigación, se descubrió que Qin Siyue no solo escondió su teléfono antes de la competición, sino que también hizo trampa durante la misma y ocultó los hechos cuando se le preguntó, lo que constituye una infracción grave. Nota de la imagen: La imagen fue generada por IA, proveída por Midjourney China.

A 19-year-old female Go player has been banned from professional competition for eight years and stripped of her professional rank after being found to have used AI to cheat.

The renowned AI art tool Midjourney today announced a range of important organizational feature updates for its website platform, aimed at significantly enhancing user management and the efficiency of organizing images. The core of this update lies in the introduction of a more sophisticated folder system. Users can now enjoy improved folder grouping capabilities and can create new content directly within folders. This improvement makes it more intuitive and convenient to classify and archive images. Additionally, Midjourney has optimized the workflow for handling images across different pages.

Stability AI has once again broken through technical barriers by launching the new Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium model. This AI art tool aimed at the general public is not only completely free for commercial use but also achieves a perfect balance between high performance and accessibility. With its multimodal diffusion transformer (MMDiT-X) architecture and a streamlined design of 2.5 billion parameters, this model cleverly addresses the hardware threshold for ordinary users, requiring only 9.9GB of VRAM to run smoothly on most consumer-grade graphics cards.

At the 2024 WAIC Scientific Frontier Main Forum, the OpenDataLab team from the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Shanghai AI Lab) launched a new intelligent data extraction tool called MinerU. This tool aims to simplify the AI data processing workflow and assist AI researchers in extracting high-quality data from vast amounts of documents.

The launch of Civitai Green marks the platform's transformation into a clean, professional AI art creation environment, completely eliminating adult content to provide creators with safe and appropriate image and model resources, enhancing the user experience in the workplace. Through Civitai Green, the platform not only ensures the high quality and diversity of resources but also introduces a more efficient payment processor, Paddle, optimizing the user payment experience. This transformation benefits the platform's commercial development and strengthens the community ecosystem by sharing works.

The LoRA model Half_illustration based on Flux.1 is an innovative image processing tool that can transform ordinary photos into artistic works that blend photography and illustration elements. Users can simply describe a scene or add specific instructions (such as 'in the style of TOK'), and the model can generate visually striking pieces that are both real and dreamlike. This tool supports a wide range of creative scenarios, including fashion photography in specific styles, artistic creations, advertising design, and more.

The ComfyUI of Aliyun PAI Artlab has introduced a workflow for creating Olympic highlight moment posters, allowing users to generate personalized Olympic-themed posters in just three steps. PAI-ArtLab is a one-stop AIGC design platform that offers dataset management, model training, and AI drawing functions, with over 200 mainstream AI generation models built-in. Users can upload local datasets for labeling or training, invoke preset AI models, or use tools such as WebUI, ComfyUI, and Khoya.

Canva has announced the acquisition of generative AI art content startup Leonardo.ai through a combination of cash and stock, aiming to enhance its investment in AI technology. The 120 employees of Leonardo.ai will join Canva and continue to operate independently, focusing on innovation and R&D. Leonardo.ai will leverage Canva's resources to accelerate its development while maintaining its current tools and solutions. Canva plans to integrate Leonardo.ai's technology into its Magic S.

Recently, online marketplace Etsy shared the latest updates on the sales of products generated by artificial intelligence, and announced the continuation of its plan to "support artists through the development of art." The platform will allow sellers to disclose their use of artificial intelligence in the descriptions of their item listings, selling artworks sourced from original prompts or AI tools.Etsy acknowledges the inevitable progress and integration of artificial intelligence tools (inclu

SaaS startup RocketLane, based in California, announced the completion of a $24 million Series B funding round, led by 8VC, Matrix Partners India, and Nexus Venture Partners.

Recently, the Beijing Internet Court held online hearings for four copyright infringement cases filed by illustrators against the developers and operators of AI art software. The plaintiffs in these cases are all renowned illustrators who discovered that their original works, published on a content-sharing platform, were extensively mimicked by the AI art software and used as training material to generate new artworks. These AI-generated artworks not only closely resemble the style of the plaintiffs' works but are also used heavily for commercial purposes, severely harming the interests of the plaintiffs.

Xiaohongshu influencer 'Antenna Sister (Underwear King)' recently shared an unusual experience. While commissioning an illustration for her original character, she unexpectedly discovered that the artist she hired was using AI technology. This revelation sparked widespread attention and discussion on social media, with the video quickly garnering 29,000 likes on Xiaohongshu.

In an unexpected twist, a photo disguised as an AI-generated image won third place in the 'AI' category of an art photography competition. This event makes us reconsider the boundaries between AI and human art.