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Creating AI Art Responsibly: How to Navigate AI Legal Risks
Creating AI Art Responsibly: How to Navigate AI Legal Risks
These recommendations are a good starting point for thinking about how to use AI ethically and to reduce your risk.
Set Clear AI Use Guidelines Choose Tools That Protect You Be Careful What You Prompt Use Approved References Review Before Release Seek Expert Guidance, Mitigate AI Legal Risks
·onwardsearch.com·
Creating AI Art Responsibly: How to Navigate AI Legal Risks
WaveSpeedAI
WaveSpeedAI
WaveSpeed gives you access to multiple different image and video generation tools by paying for credits based on what you actually use. This looks like a promising option to test out tools or generate a few videos without committing to a larger subscription.
·wavespeed.ai·
WaveSpeedAI
MeiGen-AI/InfiniteTalk
MeiGen-AI/InfiniteTalk
MeiGen-AI/InfiniteTalk is an open source AI video generation tool that supports image-to-video and video-to-video generation. This tool can create longer video clips, not just the 5-10 seconds of many other tools. It's open source, so this link goes to the Github for the project with instructions to install it locally. For a local model, the results look very promising. Installing and running it will take some technical proficiency though.
·github.com·
MeiGen-AI/InfiniteTalk
Our approach to energy innovation and AI’s environmental footprint
Our approach to energy innovation and AI’s environmental footprint
Google published a technical report on the environmental impact of AI, including calculating the cost of training models (not just individual queries). They reported energy use much lower than many earlier estimates, partly due to improvements in efficiency.
Over a 12-month period, while delivering higher-quality responses, the median energy consumption and carbon footprint per Gemini Apps text prompt decreased by factors of 33x and 44x, respectively. Based on our recent analysis, we found that our work on efficiency is proving effective and the energy consumed per median prompt is equivalent to watching television for less than nine seconds.
·blog.google·
Our approach to energy innovation and AI’s environmental footprint
Ideogram Character
Ideogram Character
This is another tool I'm adding to my list to test out. Give Ideogram a single reference image and then generate multiple remixed images. In the demo, I notice that the expressions don't seem to change much, so that might be a limitation. The basic character creation is free, with additional features for more precise editing on their paid subscription plan.
·about.ideogram.ai·
Ideogram Character
Is Any AI Use Ethical? – Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Is Any AI Use Ethical? – Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Wes Fryer shares his thoughts on differing views of ethics and AI. Wes is not ethically opposed to all AI, but that doesn't mean he supports all AI use blindly either.
I am convinced AI technologies present transformative capabilities as a “cognitive force multiplier,” and have willingly drank a healthy portion of the “AI Kool-Aid” and “AI hype cycle.” I’ve said and still believe that AI represents a transformative leap forward in our shared human history of communication as well as information economy / third wave work. At this point, I am not and do not want to be an “AI conscientious objector,” refusing to voluntarily use it in all contexts. I am an advocate for its ethical and beneficial uses, and plan to remain one.
·speedofcreativity.org·
Is Any AI Use Ethical? – Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Taking Blogging Seriously
Taking Blogging Seriously
I think back to the heyday of edublogs when lots of individuals were writing and publishing regularly. I see some of it now in email and LinkedIn newsletters, but so many fewer people write regularly like this. Blogging (like all writing) helps you clarify your thinking. I'm a better ID because I've spent so much time blogging and thinking in public.
Blogging is deeply important to me because it’s a powerful mixture of two ideas: creative expression and finding the others.
·tomcritchlow.com·
Taking Blogging Seriously
WCAG in Plain English - AAArdvark
WCAG in Plain English - AAArdvark
If you've ever consulted the official Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and felt befuddled by the wording, check out this site. This is a plain English guide to every WCAG standard.
·aaardvarkaccessibility.com·
WCAG in Plain English - AAArdvark
Better Images of AI
Better Images of AI
This nonprofit is collecting images that represent AI and technology while avoiding the typical metaphors and tropes. All images are Creative Commons licensed.
·betterimagesofai.org·
Better Images of AI
Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference? » Britannica
Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference? » Britannica
Test your ability to distinguish between real and AI images with this quiz. I work with AI images a lot, and I still only got 8/10 on this quiz. I appreciate the explanations about what to look for and tips for critical review of media.
Texture and Pattern Repetition: AI sometimes struggles with complex textures or patterns, leading to noticeable repetition or awkward transitions. Students should look for unnatural patterns in textures like hair, skin, clothing, or background elements.
·britannicaeducation.com·
Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference? » Britannica
We did it!!!
We did it!!!
Mel Milloway shares an example of an interactive avatar for interview practice. Mel has been working out loud throughout the process of building this project to explain her work and the challenges she ran into throughout
·linkedin.com·
We did it!!!
Wondershare
Wondershare
Among other tools, Wondershare has tools for creating PDFs, including creating fillable PDF forms. Looks like a good alternative for Adobe Acrobat at a lower price. Thanks Keith Quinn for the recommendation.
·wondershare.com·
Wondershare
This Image Wasn’t a Stock Photo – and It Changed the Way I Build Training
This Image Wasn’t a Stock Photo – and It Changed the Way I Build Training
Michelle Bonkosky shares her process for using ChatGPT for generating a unique image for a training workbook. I appreciate how she shows the process of iterating and refining her prompts; that's a key point. She also includes some sample prompts for images for training assets.
·chelab.substack.com·
This Image Wasn’t a Stock Photo – and It Changed the Way I Build Training
AI Co. Anthropic Nabs Partial Fair Use Win in Copyright Case
AI Co. Anthropic Nabs Partial Fair Use Win in Copyright Case
The headlines about this case will miss a lot of the nuances; it's not a complete win for Anthropic, but it is an important one. The ruling found that training AI on legally obtained copyrighted books is fair use because it's "quintessentially transformative." That doesn't mean that training on pirated books is fair use, and nothing in this ruling explicitly addresses content publicly available online. The output of AI is also an unresolved question; I predict we'll have some rulings that generating text or images that too closely matches existing copyrighted works is not protected. AI tools (especially image generation tools) need guardrails to prevent the generation of copyrighted content.
·thefashionlaw.com·
AI Co. Anthropic Nabs Partial Fair Use Win in Copyright Case
Updated Template for Writing/Designing Scenario Questions
Updated Template for Writing/Designing Scenario Questions
Will Thalheimer has shared a free template for writing scenario questions. These are more in-depth than my typical examples of one-question mini-scenarios. I like how this template forces you to think about the context and about how to differentiate people who understand the topic from those who don't.
·worklearning.com·
Updated Template for Writing/Designing Scenario Questions
ID Atlas
ID Atlas
This is an extensive comparison of the Articulate Suite versus a new competitor, Parta. I haven't tried Parta myself, but it does seem like a tool worth reviewing, especially if you do a lot of development for mobile users. Accessibility is one big drawback with Parta, and I'm not sure it has enough power to do all of the branching and variables features I need. It's good to see what else is available though.
·idatlas.org·
ID Atlas
Bias in AI: Examples and 6 Ways to Fix it in 2025
Bias in AI: Examples and 6 Ways to Fix it in 2025
Examples of bias in AI in image generation, recruiting tools, voice recognition, and other areas. The solutions here focus primarily on adjustments of the AI systems and debiasing strategy rather than on the level of individual prompts to improve representation. If you're looking at your overall strategy for AI, how you address bias has to be part of the plan.
·research.aimultiple.com·
Bias in AI: Examples and 6 Ways to Fix it in 2025
Why AI Video Avatars are NOT the Next Big Thing in L&D
Why AI Video Avatars are NOT the Next Big Thing in L&D
Heidi Kirby digs into the research about AI video avatars (excluding the vendor research). The support really isn't there. I've anecdotally seen lots of complaints about how they sit in the uncanny valley. But even as the video avatars get more realistic, is a talking head video really the best instructional method? Of course not! There wasn't a lot of buzz about talking head videos before AI. Why is there so much buzz now? (Interactive video avatars for scenarios are a separate question and not addressed by this article.)
Despite their increasing use, there's limited evidence that AI-generated avatars significantly improve learning outcomes.
·getusefulstuff.com·
Why AI Video Avatars are NOT the Next Big Thing in L&D
Gender Neutral Name Generator
Gender Neutral Name Generator
While plenty of nonbinary people have names that are traditionally coded as male or female, sometimes more gender neutral names are useful for characters in scenarios.
·thestoryshack.com·
Gender Neutral Name Generator
Creating with Gen-4 Image References
Creating with Gen-4 Image References
Runway Gen-4 offers a more controlled workflow for generating images with consistent characters and scenes. Add either a single reference image of a character or multiple reference images to combine multiple characters in a scene or specify the setting or objects. This is a more complex workflow than just chatting with ChatGPT, but it gives you more precision and more consistent results. This is Runway's documentation on using image references.
·help.runwayml.com·
Creating with Gen-4 Image References