Explosive Devices Discovered Beneath Machinery at Northvolt’s Electric Vehicle Battery Plant in Quebec https://epicnews.ca/2024/05/06/canada/crime/explosive-devices-discovered-beneath-machinery-at-northvolts-electric-vehicle-battery-plant-in-quebec/ #C...
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Explosive Devices Discovered Beneath Machinery at Northvolt’s Electric Vehicle Battery Plant in Quebec https://epicnews.ca/2024/05/06/canada/crime/explosive-devices-discovered-beneath-machinery-at-northvolts-electric-vehicle-battery-plant-in-quebec/ #Canada #crime #ecology #ElectricVehicle Homemade incendiary devices were discovered Monday morning
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@LeaBug @chriswho would love to, but most stock images are copyrighted. And this is a non-profit news organization, we don't have the funds to purchase stock images like the big guys.
If we can find a suitable image without copyright, we'll use it.
If it's impossible, we have to resort to AI generated images.
As it is, we have no ads or donations nor anything else on our site, in fact we pay for hosting and everything else that comes with it out of our own pocket.
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@epicnews @LeaBug @chriswho just learned about https://unsplash.com (from Getty Images) which is mostly free but some for a low cost (not all free as I originally posted) images (with a license for commercial use) so that might be a good place to check (I think mostly it isn't AI generated but haven't dug into it too deeply) - in any case I'm going to bookmark it for my own use in the future
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@Rycaut @LeaBug @chriswho that's amazing, thank you very much for the heads-up @Rycaut !
Will definitely check it out.
Hopefully it will give us another source for images.
The biggest issue is that often there's not much that you could find on recent events, apart of images from e.g. Reuters or local news, who will basically sue you into oblivion if you will repost their intellectual property on your non-profit website.
This is where AI generated images help us bigtime.
Thank you again!
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@epicnews @LeaBug @chriswho dug into it deeper - it isn't free but it is's $7 a month which seems more managable ($84 a year) - I was fooled by not clicking the download button. But still hopefully a useful resource. There are also truly free sources like Flickr's The Commons (https://www.flickr.com/commons) or the huge collection from the Getty https://www.getty.edu/projects/open-content-program/
But all of those are indeed less great for breaking news/editorial content
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@Rycaut @LeaBug @chriswho yup, $7 seems quite reasonable.
I'll check out what kind of stock they got
For the free ones, we already use Wikimedia Commons and Flickr Commons, among other sources. Getty is sadly all arts-related, so no go on that one (already checked it out).
The REALLY annoying thing is having written an article in about 20-30 minutes, it's ready to be posted, and then you're stuck for another half hour trying to find a suitable image that's nowhere to be found lol.
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@Rycaut @LeaBug @chriswho Definitely agreed.
We will still use AI when we will run out of patience looking for a free/cheap license image after we've been looking for it for a while.
But based on the conversation with y'all folks, we will now label the AI generated images as such.
It was an unanimous decision, though I did push for it lol.