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 model's unfiltered nature means not all the use has been completely above board. For the most part, the use cases have been above board. For example, NovelAI has been experimenting with Stable Diffusion to produce art that can accompany the AI-generated stories created by users on its platform.

If sometimes you feel like somebody's watching you, get ready to feel that way all the time. At least if you spend a good amount of time in your car. And you'll only be more surveilled in the future, as automakers find new and more efficient ways to keep track of what's happening inside their vehicles. One of the latest tools in this move toward a, let's say senior sibling, state comes from Guardian Optical Technologies, an Israeli outfit promising a whole new view of what's happening inside the car. This week at CES in Las Vegas, the Tel Aviv-based startup showed off what it calls Optical Cabin Control.