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Crypto’s biggest powerhouse flexes on its competition
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Crypto’s biggest powerhouse flexes on its competition by Lucas Matney originally published on TechCrunch
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Microsoft’s buyout of Activision Blizzard “could lead to competition concerns” say UK regulators
Further investigation of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard is needed by the UK’s competition regulator, a statement on the government’s website confirmed today. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) began the preliminary stage of their investigation at the beginning of July, with a deadline set for September 1st. That initial stage of investigation found that the deal could “substantially lessen competition in gaming consoles, multi-game subscription services, and cloud gaming services”.
Microsoft Activision deal could lessen competition, UK watchdog finds
AI-Generated Artwork Wins First Place At a State Fair Fine Arts Competition
But Allen did not paint “Theatre D’opera Spatial,” AI software called Midjourney did. It used his prompts, but Allen did not wield a digital brush. This distinction has caused controversy on Twitter where working artists and enthusiasts accused Allen of hastening the death of creative jobs. “TL;DR — Someone entered an art competition with an AI-generated piece and won the first prize,” artist Genel Jumalon said in a viral tweet about Allen’s win. “Yeah that’s pretty fucking shitty.” “We’re watching the death of artistry unfold before our eyes,” a Twitter user going by OmniMorpho said in a reply that gained over 2,000 likes. “If creative jobs aren’t safe from machines, then even high-skilled jobs are in danger of becoming obsolete. What will we have then?” “I knew this would be controversial,” Allen said in the Midjourney Discord server on Tuesday. “How interesting is it to see how all these people on Twitter who are against AI generated art are the first ones to throw the human under the bus by discrediting the human element! Does this seem hypocritical to you guys?”
He added: “I have been exploring a special prompt that I will be publishing at a later date, I have created 100s of images using it, and after many weeks of fine tuning and curating my gens, I chose my top 3 and had them printed on canvas after unshackling with Gigapixel AI,” he wrote in a post before the winners were announced.
“What if we looked at it from the other extreme, what if an artist made a wildly difficult and complicated series of restraints in order to create a piece, say, they made their art while hanging upside-down and being whipped while painting,” he said. “Should this artist’s work be evaluated differently than another artist that created the same piece ‘normally’? I know what will become of this in the end, they are simply going to create an ‘artificial intelligence art’ category I imagine for things like this.”
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Disney Dreamlight Valley selfie competition could see players win big
Disney has thrown down the jewel-laden gauntlet to its players prior to the release of the life-sim Dreamlight Valley. The developers are running a competition in the Stardew Valley-inspired game, asking people to send in-game selfies of their avatar, with the winners being the absolute epitome of creativity and originality.
‘Lying down’ competition champion brags he ‘didn’t even warm up’ to relax for 60 hours
New Crypto Exchange Platform Bitflex Launches Futures Trading Competition with $15,000 Prize Pool
Irish photographers reaching for the stars win DIAS competition
Images of the Milky Way, Rosette Nebula and zodiacal light emerged victorious in the Reach for the Stars astrophotography competition.
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