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Kdenlive 25.08 released with redesigned sound control board, additional image sizing options in Titler, new Timecode widget, handle to rotate an item (using the Transform effect) directly on the monitor, support for 10-bit H.265 encoding on NVIDIA GPUs, etc.:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/kdenli

Shotcut 25.08 released with various bug fixes:
phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-25.0

FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman" released with AV1 Vulkan encoder, VVC VA-API decoding, TLS peer certificate verification enabled by default, VP9 Vulkan and ProRes RAW Vulkan hardware-acceleration, VVC (Versatile Video Coding) support for Matroska (MKV), new filters, etc.:
9to5linux.com/ffmpeg-8-0-huffm

LibreOffice 25.8 released with PDF 2.0 support, performance improvements, support for importing encrypted hybrid PDFs, PDF documents signed on export are compatible with Adobe Reader, GUI improvements, additional formatting options, etc.:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/libreo

LibreOffice gets new Stable Diffusion extension for AI image generation:
news.itsfoss.com/libreoffice-a

Calibre 8.9 released with support for embedded fonts in HTMLZ output, color swatch in the results list of the Annotations browser to make seeing the type of highlight easier, ability to display the cover of the target book when merging books via drag and drop, sub-menu to the right-click menu of the Fetch news button that shows recently downloaded news sources, support for filtering available plugins by category in the Plugin installation window, etc.:
9to5linux.com/calibre-8-9-e-bo

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OMG! Ubuntu · Kdenlive 25.08 Release Brings Support for 10-Bit NVIDIA H.265 Encoding - OMG! UbuntuA new version of Kdenlive, the free, open source video editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux, has been released with improvements its makers hope "give you

There are a ton of reasons to be wary of AI image generators, and these ethical and safety concerns are merely scratching the surface. These tools can be used to create fake images that can be used to push a narrative, and they'll only get worse with time as well. #GenerativeAI #Midjourney #StableDiffusion #DallE

What is an #AI #ImageGenerator and how does it work?
xda-developers.com/ai-image-ge

XDA Developers · What is an AI Image Generator and how does it work?AI image generators have created a lot of buzz recently, but they may be hard to understand. Here's everything you need to know about them.

Welche #Software nutzt Ihr am liebsten, um kostenfrei Bilder via #AI / #KI zu generieren?
(Bitte ergänzt den Namen Eurer bevorzugten "anderen" Software, da die Anzahl der Optionen noch immer begrenzt ist.) Umfrage bitte gerne teilen! Danke!

What is your favourite software to generate images free of charge via AI?
(Please add the name of your favourite "other" software, as the number of options is still limited.) Please share the survey! Thanks!

"It’s also not mysterious how badly [MML] backprop systems work sometimes. Similarity in their latent space is only intermittently similar to our notions of similarity. If you ask DALL-E for a photorealistic image of Vladimir Putin rollerskating in Red Square, you may get something that is astonishingly like that, except that he has three legs. We think having three legs makes someone extremely dissimilar to Putin, but image generators don’t."

betterwithout.ai/artificial-ne

Better without AI · Artificial neurons considered harmful | Better without AI

It's not just that Midjourney #AI #imageGenerator used artworks of Blek le Rat & Shepard Fairey #Obey only, without their consent in pre-training aka preparation of #copyright violations on a massive scale.

storage.courtlistener.com/reca

At least the Midjourney situation isn't as bad for @art works of Rosalyn #Drexler, #Banksy and our #gfkDSGN as it is for:
Andy #Warhol, HR #Giger, Herman #Zapf, Paul #Klee & #Cezanne, Piet #Mondrian, MC #Escher, Roy #Lichtenstein, Tom #Wesselmann, Wassily #Kandinsky and even companies like #StudioGhibli

However, I would love to read what #FediArt followers and other #Artists are thinking about this development.

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@maddad @LaNaehForaday @Strandjunker Stepping away from #politics to look at #AI. Notice that all the #GenerativeAI #ImageGenerator #tech nearly always depicts the previous president wearing a collared shirt and tie, even when it doesn't make sense in context of the prompt.

This demonstrates how imbalanced and biased #ArtificialIntelligence #training #data skews generated #content. Now think about the dataset used to train #LLM ... it is as biased as everything #humans post on the #internet.