Monthly Archives: August 2022

We’re thinking about carbon credits all wrong

A San Francisco-based carbon removal startup pays corn farmers in Kansas for their refuse and runs like an oil company in reverse. Deposit Photos This story originally featured on Hothouse. Subscribe to the climate newsletter on Substack. Netflix is offsetting your movies with mangroves. Along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the tropical trees rise above hot, humid…

Deepfakes for all: Uncensored AI art model prompts ethics questions

A new open source AI image generator capable of producing realistic pictures from any text prompt has seen stunningly swift uptake in its first week. Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, high fidelity but capable of being run on off-the-shelf consumer hardware, is now in use by art generator services like Artbreeder, Pixelz.ai and more. But the…