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Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?

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Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?

Imagen, from Google, is the latest example of an AI seemingly able to produce high-quality images from a text prompt – but they aren't quite ready to replace human illustrators

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TOPSHOT - Activists from the climate change group Extinction Rebellion (XR) take part in a protest in Glasgow on November 8, 2021, during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. - The COP26 climate talks resuming Monday have so far unfolded on parallel planes, with high-level announcements stage-managed by host country Britain during week one riding roughshod over a laborious UN process built on consensus among nearly 200 countries. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP) (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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COP26: No countries have delivered on promise to improve climate plans

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A power station in North Yorkshire, UK

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Inside big tech's $925 million plan to speed up carbon removal

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CAR bitcoins

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Will bitcoin succeed in the Central African Republic? Probably not

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Undertakers

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Why is it hard to count the number of deaths caused by the pandemic?

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How repealing Roe v Wade in the US will lead to more women’s deaths

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Elon Musk's Twitter account

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Elon Musk buying Twitter has set him up for a scuffle with the EU

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LISBON, PORTUGAL - MAY 29: A mask-clad Nova Medical School final-year student gives a woman a blood glucose test to check possible diabetes at a screening post in Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic on May 29, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. Nova Medical School final-year students perform free cardiovascular screening, hypertension, diabetes and obesity check-ups to passers-by in a joint project with Lisbon's Areeiro Parish (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Is covid-19 causing a global surge of diabetes cases?

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Nuclear power station construction

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UK energy security strategy won't provide enough energy or security

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Ariane 64 rocket

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What does Amazon's attempt to dominate space mean for everyone else?

Amazon has placed the largest ever order for commercial rocket launches, booking up much of the global capacity for the next five years as part of its Project Kuiper plan for satellite broadband

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We can still avert climate catastrophe – but there is barely time

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We shouldn't dismiss 'incidental' covid-19 infections in UK hospitals

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The Amazon has descended into lawlessness in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil

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Health

Should I worry about 'deltacron' and other covid-19 recombinants?

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