Matt Growcoot

Senior News Editor at PetaPixel

Photographer and Journalist

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Photographer Sues Virgin Over Photo of Richard Branson's Late Mother

1 week ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

A photographer is embroiled in a legal fight with Richard Branson’s company Virgin over a photo of the British entrepreneur and his late mother Eve. Jen Magnuson, an independent freelancer based in Colorado, was hired for an event hosted by the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (IMEC) in April 2014 attended by Branson and his mother. She was hired to capture photos for “printed brochures and on the IMEC’s website,” according to court documents.
The Thrift Store Photo Album Full of Celebrities and One Ordinary Woman

1 week ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

When a photo album was handed into a thrift store in Belgium, workers there couldn’t believe their eyes as they flicked through and saw a who’s who of Hollywood in the 1990s. There are photos of Bruce Willis, Hugh Grant, Elijah Wood, Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, the Olsen Twins, Denzel Washington, the list goes on, but there is one recurring figure in all of the photographs: an unrecognizable woman who appears to have one of the great contact lists of all time.
Scientists Say Deepfakes Can Take on Human Heartbeats Making Them Impossible to Detect

1 week ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

Generative AI technology has undermined what is real and what is not. The old remark That’s Photoshop — previously used to question an image’s authenticity — has now been replaced by That’s AI. And as the tech gets better and better, it is harder to know whether something is AI-generated. Worse still, there is no real way of determining for certain whether a piece of content is synthetic, people who are well-versed in media can tell but there are fewer smoking guns.
Scientists Say Deepfakes Can Take on Human Heartbeats Making Them Impossible to Detect

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Matt Growcoot

8 hours agoAmerican-made drone smashes performance metrics at Chinese pricesA new drone company has exploded out of stealth mode in the USA with incredible claims about its first product, saying it'll fly 4X longer, 10X …13 hours agoThe US's largest virtual power plant now runs on 75,000 home batteriesSunrun just turned thousands of homes into the US’s largest virtual power plant to help keep the lights on in California this summer.
NASA Perserverance Rover Snaps Photo of 'Skull' on Mars

1 week ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

A dark, jagged rock formation on Mars, nicknamed Skull Hill, has caught the attention of NASA scientists. Spotted by the Perseverance rover on April 11 while descending a slope known as Witch Hazel Hill, the rock stands in stark contrast to the surrounding pale terrain of Jezero Crater.
Meta Updates Smart Glasses Policy to Expand AI Data Collection

2 weeks ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

Meta has revised the privacy policy for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, enabling broader data collection capabilities that feed into its artificial intelligence systems — particularly through images and voice interactions. In an email sent to Ray-Ban Meta users on April 29, Meta outlined that AI features will now be switched on by default, including the “Meta AI with camera” function.
'Mr. Polaroid' is a New Documentary About Edwin Land and Instant Photos

2 weeks ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

An upcoming TV documentary will look at inventor Edwin Land who is most famous for creating instant photography and founding the Polaroid Corporation. In the 21st century, we take for granted that an image appears instantaneously — on the back of our camera or on our smartphone screen. But in the mid-20th century, the idea you could see an image moments after taking it was a revolutionary one, and it was the Polaroid that ushered instant photography into the mainstream.
Google Gemini AI App Can Now Edit Your Photos

2 weeks ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

Google is rolling out native image editing tools within its Gemini app, allowing users to modify both AI-generated images and personal photos uploaded from their devices. The update expands on features first introduced in Google’s AI Studio earlier this year, offering users multi-step editing options directly integrated into the Gemini chatbot. With the new tools, users can change image backgrounds, add or replace objects, and apply visual edits such as altering hair color.
Annie Leibovitz Inaugral Prize Goes to Photographer Focusing on Migrants

2 weeks ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

Zélie Hallosserie has been awarded the first-ever Saltzman-Leibovitz photography prize. The 21-year-old photographer’s work shines a light on migration and exile in northern France. The French photographer has won a prize of $10,000. The total prize fund was $20,000 with $5,000 for second place, and $2,000, $1,500, $1,000, and $500 to the third through sixth-place winners respectively.
Freepik's AI Image Generator Was Not Trained on Stolen Images

2 weeks ago | petapixel.com | Matt Growcoot

Freepik, a platform that provides free images, has introduced a new open-source AI image model named F Lite. Unveiled on Tuesday (yesterday), Freepik claims the model is “responsible AI” since it has been trained solely on commercially licensed, safe-for-work content. Developed in collaboration with AI startup Fal.ai, F Lite was trained on 80 million images — a small dataset compared to other AI image generators which trained on over one billion images.