AI-generated image captivates netizens - Can you spot the hidden message?

2 days, 5 hours ago

Opinion: California and other states are rushing to regulate AI. This is what they’re missing

LA Times

Construction workers removing a six-story facade bearing the text of the 1st Amendment from the closed Newseum in Washington in 2021. The late Justice Antonin Scalia articulated it persuasively in 2011, noting that “whatever the challenges of applying the Constitution to ever-advancing technology, the basic principles of freedom of speech and the press … do not vary.” These principles should …

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4 days, 5 hours ago

Learning caution in the age of AI

China Daily

LIANG LUWEN/FOR CHINA DAILY Online experiment reveals public is too trusting of tech that demonstrates possibly dangerous flaws, Wang Qian reports. It was like a warning that if used for malicious purpose, such accounts could pose risks, such as manipulating public opinion and exacerbating polarization on social media," Xiang says. On Aug 5, he posted a notice on the account …

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Learning caution in the age of AI

China Daily

Online experiment reveals public is too trusting of tech that demonstrates possibly dangerous flaws, Wang Qian reports. As AI increasingly becomes a part of everyday life, Xiang's experiment proves that without labeling content as generated by AI, such accounts could infiltrate social media, posing as real humans and interacting with netizens. "To be honest, using AI to assist in writing …

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5 days, 19 hours ago

The Edgelord AI That Seduced Marc Andreessen, Then Turned a Famed Shock Meme Into Cryptomillions

Wired

Before Truth Terminal became a crypto millionaire, it started as a regular—if horny—artificial intelligence. Truth Terminal was devised by New Zealand developer Andy Ayrey as a piece of performance art meant to stoke debate about AI alignment, a field of research concerned with how to ensure AIs act in a way that benefits humans. The question he sought to answer: …

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6 days, 5 hours ago

Artist Charlie Engman’s unsettling AI images of the human body

CNN

CNN — Too many fingers or too many teeth — as generative AI imagery exploded across the internet last year, these bodily mishaps became both a punchline and a tell-tale sign that these photographs weren’t real. And so it deconstructs physical gestures and human bodies… in just this really raw and sort of a guttural way.” Engman toys with human …

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6 days, 16 hours ago

Kumble slams fake quotes attributed to him by Kohli, Rohit fan groups on social media, urges netizens to be ‘vigilant’

Firstpost

Spin legend Anil Kumble found out the hard way just how toxic Indian cricket supporters can on on X, as he was caught in the crosshairs of a virtual battle between fans of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma – two of the biggest stars in Indian cricket today and among the greatest of all time. Spin legend Anil Kumble, for …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Madonna’s ’creepy’ AI images with Pope Francis leave fans in disbelief. Photos cause social media fury

Live Mint

Pop icon Madonna has found herself in the middle of a heated controversy after sharing AI-generated images of herself with Pope Francis. The provocative photos, created using artificial intelligence, show Madonna in a series of poses with the religious leader, leading to intense backlash on social media. Social media reactions: Fans and followers share outrage Following Madonna’s recent social media …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Who Owns Copyright In Generated Arts Created By AI? Justice Gautam Patel Highlights New Legal Challenges

Live Law

Former Bombay High Court Judge Justice Gautam Patel highlighted the need for legislation to regulate 'Deepfakes' and flagged the challenges that may arise in addressing the issues with them. The first machine goes to correct the flaws using its generative power and bounces back to the test machine, this adversarial process, not very different from what one sees in law …

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1 week, 6 days ago

AI bots talking to bots may mark the start of the internet’s mid-life crisis

Live Mint

Till recently, the digital frontier looked boundless, a perfect virtual world where human interaction and the exchange of ideas were encouraged and democratized. One disorienting theory in circulation is the idea of the ‘dead internet.’ Part conspiracy theory, part science fiction, this posits that most online interactions are no longer between human beings, but are dominated by AI bots. In …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated

Wired

AI-generated writing is now all over the internet. The Microsoft-owned social media site for business professionals has embraced AI, even offering LinkedIn Premium subscribers access to its own in-house AI writing tools that can “rewrite” posts, profiles, and direct messages. The initiative appears to be working: Over 54 percent of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated, according to …

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4 weeks ago

AI ads can look weird. Brands like Coca-Cola are making them anyway.

Live Mint

Three animated holiday ads from Coca-Cola had the advertising community up in arms last week. Human factors To make the new holiday ads, Coke asked three AI-focused agencies to deliver a spin on its 1995 commercial titled “Holidays Are Coming." System1, a U.K.-based company that tests the effectiveness of ads, found that Coke’s holiday ads scored very highly among consumers, …

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1 month ago

Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry

Wired

Instagram is flooded with hundreds of AI-generated influencers who are stealing videos from real models and adult content creators, giving them AI-generated faces, and monetizing their bodies with links to dating sites, Patreon, OnlyFans competitors, and various AI apps. According to our review of more than 1,000 AI-generated Instagram accounts, Discord channels where the people who make this content share …

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1 month, 1 week ago

AI means anyone can be a victim of deepfake porn. Here’s how to protect yourself

CNN

New York CNN — “All we have to have is just a human form to be a victim.” That’s how lawyer Carrie Goldberg describes the risk of deepfake porn in the age of artificial intelligence. While revenge porn — or the nonconsensual sharing of sexual images — has been around for nearly as long as the internet, the proliferation of …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

How AI has been used this campaign cycle

NPR

How AI has been used this campaign cycle Earlier in the year, an AI-generated clone of President Biden's voice in a campaign robocall captured the public's attention about what generative artificial intelligence is capable of. But while it can be used to manufacture evidence of things that didn't happen, the main use of AI in U.S. political campaigns this year …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Impact of Online Photos and Videos on Our Thinking

BBC

The article explores the impact of online photos and videos on our perceptions and biases. It highlights a study that found that exposure to images on Google, Wikipedia, and the Internet Movie Database (IMBD) can influence people's implicit biases. The researchers tested whether exposure to these images had any impact on people's own biases by showing them different occupations and …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI facial filters can change who we find attractive, according to scientists

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A study used AI to transform faces in real time to investigate the social signals that influence …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

Wired

AI slop is flowing onto every major platform where people post online—and Medium is no exception. Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine and other executives at the company have described the platform as “a home for human writing.” But there is evidence that robot bloggers are increasingly flocking to the platform, too. Earlier this year, WIRED asked AI detection startup Pangram Labs …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

NSA Calls for Countering Lies on Social Media to Protect Army Morale

ABP News

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval has called for robust counter-narrative measures on social media to safeguard the morale of the Indian Army. He emphasized the credibility of social media and the need to expose and search stories that contain inaccuracies or misleading information. Doval encouraged immediate responses to incidents and emphasized establishing a correct perspective early in the public discourse.

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Deepfakes: A Cyber Threat Lurking in the Digital Age

The Quint

Deepfakes pose a significant threat to cybersecurity, privacy, and misinformation in the digital age. This article explores the complexities of deepfakes as AI-powered cyber threats and their implications for individuals, organizations, and society. According to a survey by McAfee, 75% of Indians have seen some or other form of deepfake content over the past 12 years, with a significant increase …

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2 months ago

To keep deepfakes from infiltrating its site, Yahoo News enlists help from McAfee

LA Times

In this photo of a musician performing on a street, the highlighted areas show where McAfee’s technology found the most evidence that the image was generated by AI. “While deepfake images are not an issue on Yahoo News today, this tool from McAfee helps us to be proactive as we’re always working to ensure a quality experience,” Sanchez said in …

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2 months ago

AI-generated images have become a new form of propaganda this election season

NPR

AI-generated images have become a new form of propaganda this election season toggle caption After images of the devastation left by Hurricane Helene started to spread online, so too did an image of a crying child holding a puppy on a boat. Sponsor Message This election cycle, such AI-generated synthetic images have proliferated on social media platforms, often after politically …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Commentary: AI is so rampant now that even a second-grade project is a lesson in deepfakes

LA Times

This young sloth from Brazil, Gloria, is real — unlike so many of the photos found online during a search for a picture of a sloth to go with the author’s daughter’s presentation in second grade. My daughter’s second-grade teacher assigned what should have been a straightforward project: an oral presentation about her family’s country of origin with a poster …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

Wired

In early 2020, deepfake expert Henry Ajder uncovered one of the first Telegram bots built to “undress” photos of women using artificial intelligence. Now, a WIRED review of Telegram communities involved with the explicit nonconsensual content has identified at least 50 bots that claim to create explicit photos or videos of people with only a couple of clicks. “We’re talking …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Google's search engine's latest AI injection will answer voiced questions about images

The Independent

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Worried about AI? How to easily spot a deepfake image

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Most people know you can’t necessarily trust every image you see online as AI editing tools can …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Celebrities fall for Instagram AI hoax

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Several celebrities have reposted a fake Instagram message that plays on concerns about …

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3 months ago

AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared

LA Times

With the 2024 election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump looming, experts feared a flood of realistic AI-generated deepfakes to baffle voters. Another showed a group of kittens holding a sign that read, “DON’T LET THEM EAT US, Vote for Trump!” Francesca Tripodi, an expert in online propaganda, said such AI-made images are new, viral vehicles to …

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54 years, 11 months ago

I Stared Into the AI Void With the SocialAI App

Wired

The first time I used SocialAI, I was sure the app was performance art. That was the only logical explanation for why I would willingly sign up to have AI bots named Blaze Fury and Trollington Nefarious, well, troll me. Even the app’s creator, Michael Sayman, admits that the premise of SocialAI may confuse people. His announcement this week of …

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3 months ago

Google introduces AI content labels for enhanced transparency online: How it works

Live Mint

California-based tech giant Google is rolling out new measures to clearly identify content that has been created or modified using artificial intelligence. As AI-generated media continues to proliferate, Google’s move aims to boost transparency and provide users with better insight into the authenticity of the information they encounter online. By embedding specific metadata into AI-generated content, Google will allow users …

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3 months, 1 week ago

China proposes new regulation on labeling AI-generated content

China Daily

A staff member introduces the use of AIGC technology in ancient book restoration to a visitor during the 2024 World AI Conference in Shanghai, East China, July 6, 2024. BEIJING -- The Cyberspace Administration of China has released a draft regulation that aims to standardize the labeling of AI-generated synthetic content to protect national security and public interests. Titled "Measures …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Inspiration from the past, vision for the future

China Daily

Qu Yingpu, publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, Ma Xiaoxiao, deputy consul general of China in New York, Hu Wei, president and CEO of Bank of China USA, and David J. Firestein, inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations, pose for a photo with participants of a debate on AI at a Vision …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Inspiration from the past, vision for the future

China Daily

Qu Yingpu, publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, Ma Xiaoxiao, deputy consul general of China in New York, Hu Wei, president and CEO of Bank of China USA, and David J. Firestein, inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations, pose for a photo with participants of a debate on AI at a Vision …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Inspiration from the past, vision for the future

China Daily

Qu Yingpu, publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, Ma Xiaoxiao, deputy consul general of China in New York, Hu Wei, president and CEO of Bank of China USA, and David J. Firestein, inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations, pose for a photo with participants of a debate on AI at a Vision …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Why AI Is So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris

Wired

When Elon Musk shared an image showing Kamala Harris dressed as a “communist dictator” on X last week, it was quite obviously a fake, seeing as Harris is neither a communist nor, to the best of our knowledge, a Soviet cosplayer. “AI still is unable to accurately depict Kamala Harris,” one X user wrote. “It’s uncanny how failed the algorithm …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

X’s Grok2AI chatbot escalates problem of deepfakes ahead of US elections

Al Jazeera

It is up to social media companies to monitor and remove deepfake images in connection with political content. In the weeks prior, filmmakers The Dor Brothers made short clips using Grok-generated deepfake images showing officials including Harris, Trump and former President Barack Obama robbing a grocery store, which circulated on social media. While they did not use Grok AI, as …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Trump is just trying to stay relevant’: Inside the ex-president’s AI-generated images frenzy

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Get to know your enemy.’ How Hollywood workers are learning to use AI

LA Times

While working as a cinematographer on the second season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” in April 2022, Benji Bakshi pondered a compelling question: How would natural light interact with the snowy landscape of a fictional planet under a magenta sky? “It’s natural to see something new and to feel a sense of fear,” said Caleb Ward, co-founder and chief …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say

The Hindu

Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. One of the LAION-based tools that Stanford identified as the “most popular model for generating explicit imagery” — an older and lightly filtered version of Stable Diffusion — remained easily accessible …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tom Hanks alerts fans about AI ads using his voice to sell ‘wonder drugs’: ‘Do not be fooled’

LA Times

Tom Hanks warned fans on Instagram about deceptive online ads featuring an AI-generated vocal impersonation of the actor. Nearly a year after Tom Hanks denounced a notorious deepfake dental endorsement that stoked striking SAG members’ fears about artificial intelligence, the actor has once again been targeted by the technology. In a Thursday Instagram post, the “Forrest Gump” star warned fans …

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4 months ago

Regulators may not like ‘deepfakes,’ but businesses are using them anyway

Live Mint

Companies are drawing up their own best practices for the use of AI-generated imagery and video, also known as deepfakes, for a range of business situations, from research to employee training. Sonesta International Hotels said it is using avatars from tech provider Colossyan to create employee training videos at a fraction of the cost it used to take to film …

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4 months ago

Donald Trump shares AI generated image of Taylor Swift, later says he is afraid of AI

India Today

Donald Trump, the former U.S. president known for his unpredictable antics, recently found himself in a tricky situation involving artificial intelligence and pop superstar Taylor Swift. On Sunday, Trump shared an AI-generated image of Swift, styled like an Uncle Sam poster, with her pointing at the audience and urging fans to vote for Trump. When Fox Business asked Trump if …

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4 months ago

Trump posted a fake Taylor Swift image. AI and deepfakes are only going to get worse this election cycle

LA Times

Former President Trump amplified a fake image on his social media platform that falsely suggested pop superstar Taylor Swift had endorsed him. Vice President Harris’ campaign has an interdepartmental team “to prepare for the potential effects of AI this election, including the threat of malicious deepfakes,” said spokeswoman Mia Ehrenberg in a statement. “It’s really walking this tightrope for social …

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4 months ago

Elon Musk’s X faces AI deepfake crisis as Grok 2 chatbot fuels concerns

India TV News

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 2, now available to X Premium subscribers, is raising alarms over its ability to generate AI-powered images. Grok 2 AI images stir controversy Grok 2’s image generation capabilities have sparked widespread concern, as many images created using text prompts blur the line between fiction and reality. Grok 2 breaches conventional AI safety rules Unlike other …

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4 months, 1 week ago

X’s chatbot can now generate AI images. A lack of guardrails raises election concerns

NPR

X’s chatbot can now generate AI images. “I can imagine how images like that could spread quickly on social media platforms, and how they could cause strong emotional reactions from people about the integrity of elections,” Perez said. Given the same prompt to generate an image of ballot drop box stuffing, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus responded with a message, “I’m unable …

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4 months, 1 week ago

As AI influencers storm social media, some fear a 'digital Pandora's box' has been opened

ABC

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Facebook found to be promoting AI spam pages: Report

The Hindu

Facebook has been promoting hundreds of AI-generated spam pages on its platform, which have recently gone viral, according to a report by 404 Media. Facebook’s recommendation algorithm rewarded these AI-generated spam pages which were posting dozens of times in a day. Renee DiResta of Stanford’s Internet Observatory and Josh A. Goldstein of Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology analysed …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Digital replicas to be banned under proposed AI law

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

A parody ad shared by Elon Musk clones Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics

Associated Press

NEW YORK — A video that uses an artificial intelligence voice-cloning tool to mimic the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of AI to mislead with Election Day about three months away. Mia Ehrenberg, a Harris campaign spokesperson, said in an email to The Associated Press: “We believe …

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5 months ago

An AI walks into a bar... Can artificial intelligence be genuinely funny?

BBC

An AI walks into a bar. "Comedians should be concerned about data theft and regurgitation, because many of the generative AI tools, especially ChatGPT, are being trained on content on the internet," Powell says. "One way that AI can tell jokes is to do what any five-year-old does – repeat a successful joke that they have heard, or try to …

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