Deputy Visuals Editor, photo and video, The Globe and Mail Sci-fi, F1, tech, space, etc pdell @ globeandmail . com https://xitter.cf/t.co/nvHXGDwtl2

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joined July 2008
.@globeandmail is holding a #photojournalism event in #Halifax on Wed, Oct. 8. We'll showcase our Underexposed photo essay series and discuss how The Globe approaches photojournalism. Register - globeandmailevents.com/under… #photography #journalism
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Excited to be guest on this week’s @BigIfTrueTVO, talking #deepfakes & fraud with host @MollyThomasTV and fellow panellist Marilyn Abate, Forensic & Fraud Risk Consulting at KPMG Canada. Airs 8pm ET, Sunday Dec. 8 & the show will be posted on YouTube - youtube.com/@BigIfTrueTVO
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Instead of making a TED-talk image with #Flux I tried a woman walking in a street, animated with #Kling. It's very good with fabric, hair and overall consistency. Some of the parked cars on the left in the video start to look iffy near the end.
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The @internetarchive Wayback Machine was used in @globeandmail reporting on the Canada Soccer drone spying scandal to see unredacted documents which were posted by FIFA before being removed and replaced with a redacted version theglobeandmail.com/sports/o…
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Patrick Dell retweeted
A few hours ago, Meta released the world's most advanced segmentation model: SAM 2. And people have been busy executing god-like tasks with it. The 11 most mind-blowing examples:
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"A cat in space eating pizza" via @Kling_ai
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I'll be talking about detecting #AI-generated visuals at an @ONA seminar at 2pmET. It's increasingly difficult to spot AI content as generators like Runway's Gen-3 improve - journalists.org/event/fakesp…
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Today Russia bombed a Children’s hospital in Kyiv, I’m at the scene and the devastation is horrific
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I’m very sad to read that Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88. I don’t have many celebrity stories, but I do treasure my spectacular interactions with Donald in the summer of 2015. Please do read on. (1/16) theglobeandmail.com/arts/fil…
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Searing from ⁦@nvanderklippe⁩ on Ramadan in Gaza. “Food has been in such short supply that the rituals of Ramadan brought little change. ‘With or without Ramadan, we fast. We eat only one meal a day.’ He has lost 40 kilograms since the war began.” theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
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ngl, I almost cried when totality was reached.
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Glimpse of partial #Eclipse from Toronto, obscured by cloud now.
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"A diagrammatic reproduction of the #Eclipse." Archive footage of what looks like a hand-made animation device from 1927.
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This week, my wife and I are celebrating our anniversary. My parents ordered us a very practical, thoughtful gift on Amazon: a crockpot and a crockpot cookbook. We're thrilled. There's just one minor issue: I'm pretty sure the cookbook was written by an AI... 🧵
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Recognizing AI-generated images is getting harder. But @globeandmail Visuals Editor @patrickdell has a few tips on what you should actually be looking for… cjf-fjc.ca/keep-truth-human #KeepTruthHuman #aimisinformation #medialiteracy #aigeneratednews #journalism #journalismmatters
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“I want to extend, on behalf of the London Police Service, my sincerest apology to the victim, to her family, for the amount of time that it has taken to reach this point.” — London police Chief Thai Truong
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