Dave Clark: Kendrick Lamar + Drake Beef

• Everyone has something to say about this beef, including Dave Clark.

• Dave Clark's AI video is a wild trip, he blends AI visuals to re-imagine Kendrick and Drake settling their long-running beef once and for all.

• The project flexes AI's creative muscles, cooking up a short cinematic narrative that's both cultural and on point with the hip-hop culture's obsession over artist rivalries.

• Also this week, Clark announced that he will be speaking at Cannes Film Festival!!

Phil Langer: Hybrid Portraits

• Phil creates Photorealistic hybrid portraits blending human and animal elements created using Midjourney, Krea ai, and retouching in Photoshop.

• Animation achieved through depth maps in Leia Pix, pushing the boundaries of photorealism in AI-generated imagery.

• Overcoming the challenge of forcing Midjourney to generate appealing human-animal hybrid compositions instead of favoring one over the other.

Martin Nebelong: Krea ai + Photoshop + Magnific ai workflow

• Martin Nebelong's project showcases an impressively seamless integration of digital artwork creation using AI tools like Krea AI, Photoshop, and Magnific AI.

• The workflow highlights the ability to paint and detail elements directly in AI with fluid brush strokes, enabling a level of creative control that is remarkable.

• Nebelong's approach, combining AI tools with traditional software like Dreams on the PS5, sets a new standard for digital art creation in its versatility and attention to detail.

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Katy Perry's own mom fell for her Met Gala AI photo

• The internet was shaken when hyper-realistic AI-generated photos of Katy Perry at this year's Met Gala started circulating on social media.

• While Perry, pictured at an event in Los Angeles in April, claims she "couldn't make it to the Met" and was working in the studio.

• The fake photos highlight just how advanced AI imaging has become in blurring the lines between reality and digital fabrication.

• Whether created by Perry as a viral stunt or by someone else, these AI-generated visuals set a new precedent infiltrating mainstream culture, serving as a wake-up call that you can't always trust what you see online - even seemingly legit celeb content.

Childish Gambino (Donald Glover)’s Album Dropped: What does it mean for AI + Music?

• Gambino's surprise release of Atavista positions the album as the "finished version" of his 2020 album 3.15.20, showcasing his artistic evolution as an early adopter of AI technologies in music.

• While the album's music and videos were not AI-generated (to our knowledge) Gambino is embracing AI integration, having posted job openings for "AI prompter" roles at his Gilga creative studio in April 2023.

• As a forward-thinking artist experimenting with AI's creative applications, Gambino's Atavista release signals music's accelerating intersection with artificial intelligence, paving the way for other musicians to explore AI's disruptive potential.