YouTubers Surprised That Google Uses Their Videos to Train AI Models

Google is reportedly using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models like Gemini and Veo 3, shocking many content creators. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-6-21 19:11

AI Companies Used 130,000 Film and TV Scripts to Train Generative Models

A new report says that AI companies have plundered over 130,000 films and TV shows without permission to train generative AI models. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-6-9 15:04

OpenAI Warns US to Let It Train on Copyrighted Material or China Wins AI Race

OpenAI has urged the US government to give the company unrestricted access to copyrighted material to train its AI models and points to China as the reason why it should escape copyright laws. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-3-15 15:39

Pinterest to Train AI Models on User Content

While Pinterest may not be an obvious platform for photographers, there are still plenty of them on there. For those shooters, they may want to take note of the recent news that the boards-based app will train AI models with user content. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2025-3-10 15:44

Canva is Using Your Work To Train Its AI

The use of artificial intelligence is getting more mainstream day by day, with many camera manufacturers and software makers incorporating the technology to improve image making. An example is Sony's a1 II, where the company utilized an AI chip to help improve autofocus performance. thephoblographer.com »

2025-3-5 20:00

Tourist Dies While Leaning Out of Train to Take Selfie

A 53-year-old tourist died after leaning out of a train to take a selfie and hitting a rock.

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2025-2-24 18:16

UK Photographers Reject Government Plan to Allow AI Companies to Train on Their Data

U.K. photographers have rejected a move by the British government that would allow tech companies to train AI tools with their work. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-12-21 18:34

Our year in photos: Richard's most memorable shot of 2024

When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. Beyer-Garratt 143 passes through Nantmor halt, southbound on the Welsh Highland Railway Fujifilm 16-55mm F2. dpreview.com »

2024-12-20 18:00

Tourist Hit by Oncoming Train While Taking Selfie on Tracks

A tourist, who attempted to take a selfie in front of a moving train, was brutally hit and knocked to the ground by the oncoming locomotive. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-12-16 18:59

Photobucket Sued for Licensing Billions of Users’ Images to Train AI

Photobucket has been sued for licensing billions of users' photos to train AI systems without their consent.

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2024-12-13 15:53

Tourist Dragged From Train While Filming Selfie Video Out of Window

A tourist was dragged from a train while filming a selfie video after dangling out of a carriage window to get the perfect shot. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-12-13 17:36

Photographer Captures Starlink Satellite Train Sailing Through the Night Sky

There are tens of thousands of satellites above us and they affect our daily lives, yet we rarely see them. But one photographer set out to record some of the best-known satellites: Elon Musk's Starlink. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-26 19:23

Meta Scraped Every Australian Adult’s Public Photos to Train AI

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has admitted to scraping the public photos and text of every Australian adult Facebook or Instagram user dating back nearly 20 years. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-12 17:41

Teenager Accused of Causing Train Crash for YouTube Content

A 17-year-old in Nebraska has been charged with two felony counts of criminal mischief after allegedly causing a train crash and filming it. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-7-30 14:37

Woman is Killed After Getting Too Close to a Train While Taking Selfie

A woman in Mexico has died after being hit by a train that she was trying to position herself next to for a selfie.

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2024-6-8 14:41

Meta is Using Your Instagram Photos to Train its ‘Amazing’ AI Image Generator

During an interview at Bloomberg's Tech Summit last Thursday, Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox said that Instagram and Facebook have an advantage in the generative AI space because of all the "public" photos available to them. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-5-14 17:14

OpenAI Again Refuses to Say if It Used Your Content to Train Sora

Since OpenAI, the artificial intelligence technology company behind the DALL-E and ChatGPT, unveiled its new AI video generator, Sora, there has been controversy and questions surrounding how the Microsoft-backed company trained its new video model. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-5-10 18:49

Photographer Sues Google for Using Her Photos to Train AI Image Generator

Photographer Jingna Zhang has launched a lawsuit against Google along with three other artists who accuse the search giant of using their copyrighted work in the training of its AI image generator model Imagen. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-5-10 16:28

Train Conductor Captures Terrifying Video of a Direct Tornado Strike

A train conductor in Nebraska recorded a harrowing video from the middle of a tornado hit.

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2024-5-2 23:49

Photographer Helps Grizzly Bear Narrowly Escape Oncoming Train

A filmmaker captured the moment a legendary grizzly bear, known as “The Boss," had an incredibly close call with an oncoming train. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-4-15 18:47

San Francisco’s Train System is Still Running on Floppy Disks

In 1998, San Francisco installed the latest cutting-edge technology to run the train network: floppy disks. A quarter of a century later and the city's transportation agency is still using the same system. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-4-9 17:45

Zuckerberg’s Going to Use Your Instagram Photos to Train His AI Machines

During his earnings call for Meta's fourth quarter results yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg made it clear he will use images posted on Facebook and Instagram to train his generative AI tools with. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-3 20:25

OpenAI Claims it is Impossible to Train AI Without Using Copyrighted Content

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E, is fighting a major legal battle against New York Times for what The Times alleges was "unlawful use" of its content during OpenAI's extensive AI training process. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-1-10 20:12

Man Charged With Attempted Murder Over Shooting of Train Photographer

A man has been detained by police for allegedly shooting a photographer during a botched robbery attempt while he was taking pictures of trains in Memphis last week. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-12-1 17:31

Oppenheimer’s New Mexico Train Stop Can Be Visited in Real Life

The Lamy Train Station in Santa Fe, New Mexico is a small, unassuming Spanish Mission Revival building about fifty miles south of Los Alamos. In the 1940s, it was frequented by Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos Laboratory staff, and their families while en route to the secret military site. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-8-10 21:42

Adobe May Be Using Your Photos to Train its AI

Adobe has added a "Content Analysis" section to its privacy and personal data collection permissions that, unless opted out of, opens photographers' images to being used to train the company's artificial intelligence and machine learning models. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-1-6 23:39

Tourist Falls to Death Taking Selfie on Moving Train in Thailand

A tourist fell to his death after reportedly leaning out to take a selfie of a moving train in Thailand.

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2022-12-29 18:45

Teen Hit by Train on Camera While Shooting Instagram Reel

An Indian teenager shooting an Instagram Reel was hit by a train. The horrifying incident was caught on camera, and although the boy received series injuries, he miraculously survived the accident. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-9-7 20:02

Leica Freedom Train: How the Leitz Family Saved Jews in the Holocaust

The Leica Freedom Train was not a physical coal or steam engine, but the monumental effort of the Leitz family. This is how they and the Leica camera company saved hundreds of Jews from persecution at the hands of the Nazis. petapixel.com »

2021-11-18 23:39

Photographing Landscapes Through a Train Window Across Europe

Trainviews is a little project I did during my train trip on the Connecting Europe Express in September 2021. This train brought me all the way from Lisbon to Bratislava while visiting a different city every day in just 9 days’ time. petapixel.com »

2021-9-21 17:51

Запущена большая распродажа симуляторов поезда

В сервисе цифровой дистрибуции Steam проходит большая распродажа симуляторов поезда — Train Sim World. Так, Train Sim World 2 можно купить за 231 рубль. Напомним, что в обычное время игра продается за 515 рублей. photorealm.ru »

2021-5-27 16:33

I Found An Old Abandoned Train

On August 2020, we met at Butlershaven for a session on Art Therapy. It was done after the lockdown level was lowered and we were allowed to attend small gatherings. It was the first time in months that we were able to go out of the house in months. boredpanda.com »

2021-3-28 09:50

Google Photos Wants You To Donate Your Time to Train Its Algorithm

Google Photos has for some time asked users to verify its results for facial recognition or image content accuracy, but now the app is taking requests one step further: it’s asking you to label all your images from scratch, not just verify results, to help train the algorithm. One of the tenents of creating a […] petapixel.com »

2020-11-11 19:02

I Spent Five Years Taking Train Pictures In Exciting Places (65 Pics)

My childhood dream was to become a train driver. Nowadays I work as a photographer and also an engine driver, so my dream came true. So obviously my favorite subject is taking pictures of trains. boredpanda.com »

2020-10-1 19:44

Colorized 1902 Footage of a ‘Flying Train’ Ride Through a German Town

Here’s a fascinating 4-minute video that offers a tiny window into what life in one German town was like back in 1902. The original 2-minute black-and-white was released by the Museum of Modern Art and shows “aerial” views shot from a suspended train, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. petapixel.com »

2020-8-22 19:12

Video: Family Narrowly Avoids Getting Hit by Train During Photo Shoot

An ill-advised family photo shoot on a set of active train tracks in Greencastle, Pennsylvania nearly ended in tragedy when a freight train came barreling through, narrowly missing the photographer, parents, and five children. petapixel.com »

2020-2-26 20:01

Photographer Nearly Killed by Passing Train that Got so Close it Tore Her Coat

A video released by local authorities in Carland, Michigan captured the scary moment when a photographer was nearly hit by a passing train she was photographing. Fortunately, the train “only” tore a piece off of her coat, leaving her unscathed… if shaken and (hopefully) wiser. petapixel.com »

2019-12-9 19:54

17-Year-Old Struck and Killed by Train During Senior Portrait Session

A 17-year-old high school student was struck and killed by a Union Pacific train in Troutdale, Oregon this weekend during an ill-fated and ill-advised senior portrait shoot on the tracks. According to local news outlet KATU 2, 17-year-old River Baker, a senior at Estacada High School in Estacada, OR, was struck by the train on […] petapixel.com »

2019-11-5 01:11

Photographing a Bullet Train Leaving a Tunnel at 190mph

Want a challenge to test your shutter finger reaction time as a photographer? Try capturing a bullet train zooming out of a tunnel up close. That’s what Japanese photographer Kunihiko Tsuji demonstrates does in the video above. petapixel.com »

2018-10-9 19:50

Freight Train Hopping In Mauritania: 4000 Kilometers In A Cargo Carriage With Local Shepherds And Their Sheep

In the spring of 2016, I traveled to the Sahara desert to ride the legendary Mauritanian iron ore train. At a length of 2.5 kilometers, the train is said to be one of the longest in the world. boredpanda.com »

2017-7-24 19:20

Photographers react with outrage at National Geographic train tracks photo

'Don't take photos on train tracks. ' If you feel like you've been hearing this message a lot lately, it's because you have. And it bears repeating because apparently, it hasn't gotten through. dpreview.com »

2017-4-13 01:58

Photographers Angry with Nat Geo for Posting Train Track Photo

National Geographic is being heavily criticized by photographers across the globe for posting a train track portrait on their 74. 9 million follower Instagram account. This, less than a month after the last widely-reported train track photoshoot death took over the headlines. petapixel.com »

2017-4-13 22:16

TODAY Show Demonstrates Why Train Track Photography is So Dangerous

At least once per month, we hear about someone else—a photographer, photo shoot subject, sometimes just kids messing around—who was struck and killed while taking pictures on train tracks. And this weekend, the TODAY show demonstrated how these massive machines are able to “sneak up” on people. We published our latest story of a train […] petapixel.com »

2017-4-4 17:41

Slow-Motion: Amtrak Train vs. Snow

Here’s a slow-motion video that’s going viral: Nick Colvin captured an Amtrak train arriving at a station where the tracks were covered with a thick layer of snow. What results is a beautiful (and scary) white explosion. petapixel.com »

2017-3-16 21:42

Train Full Of Emotions Is a Series of Telling Portraits Shot on a Train

Choice of location for street photography shooting is extremely important, and Skander Khlif chose to shoot in a train. In this series of street photographs titled "Train Full Of Emotions", Skander managed to capture emotions in the eyes and behaviours of travelers in a train departing to Jaipur, India. thephoblographer.com »

2016-9-27 13:02

How to Turn an Old Toy Train Into a DIY Motion Timelapse Rig

This is an incredibly simple idea, but somehow we’ve never seen it done before. Forget expensive motion controlled timelapse sliders, why not use that old electric toy train you have collecting dust in the attic? Okay, fine, not everyone has one of these just laying around, but if you have a toy train in storage, […] petapixel.com »

2016-9-7 20:45