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Visual Explorer: 65M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp Transcription Model

Our massive collaborative initiative to transcribe the entire Internet Archive Television News Archive has reached 65 million minutes of transcribed broadcasts…

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Experiments With Speech Transcription: Comparing The Cost Of Running OpenAI's Whisper Vs Google's Chirp In Production

Over the past few months we've transcribed more than 65 million minutes of global television news coverage spanning more than…

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An Example Of How Chinese Television News Is Covering Gaza

How are other countries around the world covering the situation in Gaza? Here is a glimpse from Chinese television news…

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Multimodal Generative AI Experiments: How Two Of Gemini Pro Vision's Hallucinations & Fabrications Vanished In 48 Hours

One of the most remarkable aspects of generative AI models including Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)…

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Multimodal Generative AI Experiments: Evaluating Emotional Responses To Images By Different Countries & Cultures Through GPT-4 & Gemini Pro Vision

The majority of descriptive computer vision applications range from taxonomic categorization and OCR to rich textual captioning and Q&A. Yet,…

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Multimodal Generative AI Experiments: GPT-4 Vs Gemini Pro Vision Describing TV News, Images & Ukraine War Maps

The era of text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly giving way to Large Multimodal Models (LMMs): both OpenAI's GPT-4…

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Generative Image AI: Existential Cultural Bias & The Critically Urgent Need To Globalize Image Models

One of the most surprising findings of our experiments with commercial generative AI image creation models has been the abject…

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Generative Image AI: Comparing OpenAI's DALL-E Vs Google's New Imagen 2

With the public release of Google Cloud's Imagen 2 model earlier this month, touted as GCP's "most advanced text-to-image technology",…

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Generative Image AI: Branding & Representation Lessons From Creating Nearly 500 DALL-E Images For Autonomous Storytelling & Promotional Campaigns

Over the past week and a half we've been exploring the potential of generative AI image creation tools like DALL-E…

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Generative Image AI & The Potential Of At-Scale Citizen-Led National Promotional Campaigns During Times Of Crisis: A Ukraine Experiment

As we continue to explore the potential of generative AI for autonomous production and ideation of national and organizational branding…

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Generative Image AI & Autonomous National Branding Campaigns: Branding Ukraine Across The World Through Its Missions

Continuing our series on autonomous diplomacy and autonomous national branding, we've examined how OpenAI's DALL-E could be used to generate…

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Generative AI Experiments: LLM Secret Guardrails & How Gemini Pro Refuses To Mention OpenAI or ChatGPT

As we've been continuing our explorations of LLMs for looking across the vast realtime landscape of global news coverage, we've…

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Multimodal Generative AI Experiments: Gemini Pro + Bard & Describing YouTube Videos

Last month Google announced YouTube integration for Bard in which it can now retrieve transcripts and metadata about any video…

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Generative Image AI & Autonomous National Branding Campaigns: Branding Turkey Across The World Through Its Missions

Continuing our series on autonomous diplomacy and autonomous national branding, yesterday we examined how OpenAI's DALL-E could be used to…

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Generative Image AI & Autonomous Organizational Branding Campaigns: Imagining The Internet Archive's 30th Through DALL-E & Different Artistic Styles

As we continue our autonomous diplomacy and autonomous branding series, how might generative AI image models be used to create…

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Generative Image AI & Autonomous National Branding Campaigns: Using Style Filters With DALL-E To Imagine Turkey's Centennial In Different Artistic Styles

As we continue our autonomous diplomacy and autonomous national branding series, how might generative AI image creators be used to…

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AA: From Connection To Contention: How AI curbs Access To Information

  Anadolu Agency (AA) interviewed Kalev at TRT World Forum 2023 earlier this month in Istanbul. Read The Full Article.

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Generative Image AI & Autonomous National Branding Campaigns: Branding Estonia Across The World Through Its Missions

Following in the footsteps of our autonomous diplomacy and autonomous national branding experiments, how might generative image AI be used…

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Generative Image AI: How DALL-E's Guardrails Made The Obamas White & What It Tells Us About Gender, Race & Culture In Leadership Portrayals

Most major commercial generative AI models have a variety of guardrails and tuning to prevent them from creating imagery of…

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A Model-Based Framework For News Content Analysis

News articles are published all over the world to cover important events. Journalists need to keep track of ongoing events…

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Generative Image AI: How DALL-E Represents People From Countries Across The World – A Global Tour Of Fashion & Faces

Continuing our series on how generative AI image creators represent cultures and geographies from across the world, we'll explore what…

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Generative Image AI: How Americans In The North, South, East & West Look Through The Eyes Of DALL-E

Continuing our series examining the underlying norms, narratives and symbolism encoded in generative AI image generators, here we explore what…

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Generative Image AI: How Western Norms & Light Skin Tones Dominate DALL-E's Generated Person Imagery

One of the more striking aspects of DALL-E's generated person imagery is the degree to which it reflects traditional Western…

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Generative Image AI: Autonomous Political Campaigns: Using DALL-E To Visualize The Dominate Presidential & Political Themes Of Each Decade

Political campaigns throughout the world's democracies frequently alternate between reaching into the past to resurrect themes of nostalgia with their…