AI-generated images are everywhere. They’re being used to make nonconsensual pornography, muddy the truth during elections and promote products on social media using celebrity impersonations. When …
Tech Companies Sign Accord to Combat AI-Generated Election Trickery
Major technology companies, including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and TikTok, signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial …
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FTC Wants to Penalize Companies for Use of AI in Impersonation
The US Federal Trade Commission moved to put new rules into place around impersonation, citing the rising threat of scams enabled by generative artificial intelligence. The agency is seeking public …
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OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
OpenAI’s image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). The company …
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Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist
On Sunday, a report from the South China Morning Post revealed a significant financial loss suffered by a multinational company's Hong Kong office, amounting to HK$200 million (US$25.6 million), due …
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Meta Calls for Industry Effort to Label A.I.-Generated Content
Last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, called a nascent effort to detect artificially generated content “the most urgent task” …
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AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’
The “worst nightmares” about artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse images are coming true and threaten to overwhelm the internet, a safety watchdog has warned. The Internet Watch …
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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in …
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China turns to AI in hopes of creating viral online propaganda, Microsoft researchers say
Chinese state-affiliated hacking groups are become more adept at using artificial intelligence to generate content designed to “go viral across social networks in the U.S. and other democracies,” …
Artificial intelligence could help ‘normalize’ child sexual abuse as graphic images erupt online
Artificial intelligence is opening the door to a disturbing trend of people creating realistic images of children in sexual settings, which could increase the number of cases of sex crimes against …