How AI can help predict fashion trends

How AI can help predict fashion trends

Using the novel top-down prompting strategy and expert guidance, ChatGPT can become a valuable tool for fashion trend prediction, especially for fashion students and small brands. Credit: Yoon Kyung Lee / Pusan National University Fashion trend forecasting helps companies predict which clothes will be popular in upcoming seasons. Traditionally, this has relied on experts’ intuition,…

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Happiness is not found in fast fashion—reducing consumption can improve body image and well-being

Happiness is not found in fast fashion—reducing consumption can improve body image and well-being

Credit: Min An from Pexels According to a doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa, appealing to personal well-being is a more effective way to reduce clothing consumption than invoking environmental concerns. Essi Vesterinen’s research in marketing reveals that extending the lifespan of clothes is linked to better subjective well-being and a more positive body…

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Food delivery apps depend on cheap immigrant labor to survive, research shows

Food delivery apps depend on cheap immigrant labor to survive, research shows

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Algorithm-based digital platforms like Uber Eats have revolutionized the food delivery industry over the past decade. But the surcharge for consumer convenience has its own cost, according to new research published in the Journal of Canadian Labour Studies. According to the researchers, the industry’s rapid growth is based on two fundamentals:…

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Elon Musk’s xAI lays off 500 jobs amid strategy shift to Specialist AI tutors: Report

Elon Musk’s xAI lays off 500 jobs amid strategy shift to Specialist AI tutors: Report

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has laid off around 500 employees from its data annotation team, according to a report by Business Insider. The move, communicated late on Friday evening, affects workers who were responsible for training the company’s generative AI chatbot, Grok. xAI lays off 500 data annotation staff As per the report,…

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'Ultra-fresh' fashion reshapes the industry, with a cost to the environment

‘Ultra-fresh’ fashion reshapes the industry, with a cost to the environment

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Traditional fast-fashion companies such as Zara and H&M rely on quick production cycles to keep up with consumer demand. A new business model supercharging that approach, called “ultra-fresh fashion,” offers clothing collections on an almost daily basis and is revolutionizing the fashion industry. New research from Cornell SC Johnson College of…

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China's meteoric rise into space

China’s meteoric rise into space

Launch of a Chinese Long March 2F. Credit: Universe Today While NASA maintains the lead in human space exploration, other nations have already begun their own projects. Take the China National Space Agency, for example, with their CLEP, or Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. If you have any doubts about the objectives of the program, just…

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