💬 Quoted…​​ “A dog wearing a superhero outfit with a red cape flying through the sky.”

Meta unveiled an AI system that generates quick videos based on text prompts, like the one above. And even though this particular tool isn’t yet available to the public, text-to-image/video is going mainstream, baby. Over the last few months:

• TikTok released “AI Greenscreen,” an in-app, text-to-image generator allowing users to type out a prompt the software then turns into an image that can be used as a video background.
• OpenAI made DALL-E, its latest text-to-image AI system, available to everyone.
• Startup Stability.AI launched Stable Diffusion, an open-source text-to-image system.

🙏 Stat of the Day: Suicide rates in the US increased 4% in 2021 after declining for two years, per preliminary CDC data released Friday.

• +Important: If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988, or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

🤯 Did You Know?... Every year, 264,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the US – about one every two minutes. (Just fyi, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.)

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