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Only One Person on Costly Video Call Wasn't a Deepfake

Unnamed company out $25M after worker in Hong Kong falls for elaborate scam

(Newser) - A financial worker sent $25 million to fraudsters after falling victim to a scam that made impressive but alarming use of deepfake technology. The worker initially feared a phishing scam upon receiving an email, purportedly from the UK-based chief financial officer of the unnamed multinational company, explaining the need for...

Fake Taylor Swift Images Traced to 4Chan Challenge

Research firm finds online group made evading safeguards a game

(Newser) - A research firm has traced sexually explicit fake images of Taylor Swift that began circulating online last month to an already-infamous message board. Graphika found that a game-like challenge on 4Chan probably led to users trying to create lewd images of famous women, the New York Times reports. They were...

Meta Board Backs Decision to Keep Up Altered Biden Video

But oversight panel criticizes company's existing guidelines on manipulated media as 'incoherent'

(Newser) - An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta's policies regarding manipulated media as "incoherent" and insufficient to address online disinformation in an election year. The quasi-independent board on Monday said its review of an altered video of President Biden that spread on Facebook exposed gaps in the policy,...

This AI-Driven Search Engine Should Make Google Nervous

Kevin Roose makes case in 'NYT' for Perplexity, whose artificial intelligence both excites, scares him

(Newser) - Google has long been the search engine powerhouse that people turn to when they want information on everything from flyby asteroids to the cost of Super Bowl tickets . Challengers have arisen, but the Alphabet-owned company always seems to beat them back—though one newish upstart has tech columnist Kevin Roose...

Some of Your Favorite Music May Vanish From TikTok
TikTok May
Lose Some
Very Big Songs
Jan 31, 2024 11:55 AM CST

TikTok May Lose Some Very Big Songs

Yes, it's over a licensing deal, and it affects Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, and more

(Newser) - Universal Music Group—which represents artists including Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny, and Billie Eilish—says that it will no longer allow its music on TikTok after a licensing deal between the two expired on Wednesday. UMG said that it had not agreed to terms of a new deal...

X Makes 'Temporary' Move Over AI Images of Taylor Swift

Platform halts searches of her name after fake nudes emerged

(Newser) - Elon Musk's social media platform X has blocked searches for Taylor Swift as pornographic deepfake images of the singer have circulated online, per the AP . Attempts to search for her name on the site resulted in an error message and a prompt for users to retry their search, which...

AI's Latest Transgression: Fake Nudes of Taylor Swift

Pop star is just one victim of sexually explicit deepfakes, which show the lack of safeguards

(Newser) - Taylor Swift has had a massive impact on the cultural landscape. Now, she could potentially play a role in forming federal law, though without her consent. The superstar songwriter found herself the focus of calls for US lawmakers to crack down on AI-driven deepfakes this week as fake pornographic images...

AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special

'No machine will ever replace his genius,' late comedian's daughter says

(Newser) - George Carlin had a famous " Seven Words You Can't Say on TV " routine—and if the comedian was alive today, he might use several of them to slam what's being billed as an artificial intelligence-generated Carlin comedy special. His daughter Kelly Carlin definitely isn't impressed....

New Report Holds a 'Predominantly Negative Outlook for the World'

World Economic Forum annual risk survey warns of misinformation, aided by AI

(Newser) - Two-thirds of risk specialists see an "elevated chance of global catastrophes" in the next decade. Nearly a third predict the same within the next couple of years. That's according to the World Economic Forum's annual risk survey, which is being widely painted as "gloomy" and "...

OpenAI: There Is No ChatGPT Without Copyrighted Content

AI company, citing fair use doctrine, accuses 'NYT' of deception in lawsuit response

(Newser) - OpenAI says the New York Times is "not telling the full story" about the AI company's use of Times content to fuel its chatbot ChatGPT. The Times is seeking billions of dollars in damages from OpenAI and its leading investor Microsoft for unlawful use of its copyrighted content...

NYT Suit: We Suffered Billions in Damages Due to AI

It sues OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement

(Newser) - Another first in the category of AI-related lawsuits: The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, becoming the first major media organization in the US to do so. The Times sums up the crux of its suit : "that millions of articles published by the...

AI Image Generators Were Trained on Child Porn
AI Image Generators
Were Trained on Child Porn
NEW REPORT
Dec 25, 2023 2:50 PM CST

AI Image Generators Were Trained on Child Porn

That training helps systems produce more explicit imagery of children, though fake

(Newser) - Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. Those same images have made it easier for AI systems to produce...

AI Learns to Identify Locations From Photos

Student project raises privacy concerns

(Newser) - If nothing is written on the back of an old family vacation photo, or no location is tagged to a digital image, artificial intelligence might be able to help. Three Stanford University graduate students have demonstrated AI's ability to look at a photo and tell where it was taken....

No, Mr. AI, You Can&#39;t Hold a Patent
No, Mr. AI, You
Can't Hold a Patent
Dec 20, 2023 12:52 PM CST

No, Mr. AI, You Can't Hold a Patent

You might be intelligent, but you're not human, rules Britain's high court

(Newser) - An artificial intelligence system can't be registered as the inventor of a patent, Britain's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that the AP reports denies machines the same status as humans. The UK's highest court concluded that "an inventor must be a person" to apply...

Rite Aid Banned From Using Facial Recognition Tech

For the next 5 years, at least

(Newser) - Due to what the Federal Trade Commission calls Rite Aid's "reckless" use of facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores from 2012 to 2020, the drugstore chain is now prohibited from using it for five years. The ban is part of Rite Aid's settlement with the FTC...

Pope Calls for Global AI Rules
Pope Urges Global AI Treaty
Dec 14, 2023 7:15 PM CST

Pope Urges Global AI Treaty

'Brilliant' technology's dangers require regulation, Francis says

(Newser) - Pope Francis, who has been victimized by the technology, called Thursday for a global treaty to regulate artificial intelligence. In his message marking the World Day of Peace, the pope acknowledged the possible benefits of AI, the Washington Post reports, describing the technology as "brilliant." But it also...

CEO Fired Weeks After Sports Illustrated AI Scandal

Successor says Ross Levinsohn firing isn't connected to reports of AI-generated stories

(Newser) - Ross Levinsohn has been fired as CEO of Sports Illustrated and publishers The Arena Group, weeks after Futurism reported that SI had been running stories generated by artificial intelligence , using bogus names and AI-generated byline pictures. Levinsohn, the magazine's CEO since 2019, is the latest exec to go in...

These Are Wikipedia's Most-Viewed Pages of 2023

ChatGPT intrigued the most people, followed by deaths, Bollywood, and cricket, among others

(Newser) - In 2023, the English version of Wikipedia received more than 84 billion views, as people sated their curiosity on the topics that intrigued them the most. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts the online encyclopedia, has now released its ranking of the pages that users read the most this...

Google Rolls Out Its Answer to ChatGPT
Google Unveils
a Powerful Rival
to ChatGPT
THE RUNDOWN
Dec 6, 2023 12:50 PM CST

Google Unveils a Powerful Rival to ChatGPT

'I am in awe of what it's capable of,' Google DeepMind exec says of Gemini

(Newser) - A decade ago, researchers at DeepMind were working on getting artificial intelligence to beat games like Pong. After years of advances, the lab has now produced what Google calls its "largest and most capable AI model yet"—Gemini, the company's answer to ChatGPT. Google says the most...

2 More Words Chosen for &#39;Word of the Year&#39;
Here's Merriam-Webster's
Word of the Year for 2023
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Dec 2, 2023 5:05 PM CST

Here's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2023

It goes with 'authentic,' while Cambridge Dictionary chooses 'hallucinate'

(Newser) - In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is "authentic," the AP reports. Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on...

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