This is a step in the right direction, at least. Alerta! YouTube will soon make users add a disclaimer when they post artificial intelligence-generated or manipulated videos. In a company blog post, the video giant outlined its forthcoming rule change that will not only require a warning label, but will display disclaimers larger for certain… Continue reading YouTube Creators Will Be Forced To Disclose AI Content
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AI Platform Has a “Bounties” System for Creating Deepfakes of Regular People
Extremely Disturbing Civitai, one of the internet’s largest AI platforms, is incentivizing users to make deepfakes of real people, a disturbing report from 404 Media has revealed. Per 404, the AI model marketplace — which has reportedly received millions in funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z fund — recently introduced a “bounties” feature, which is a… Continue reading AI Platform Has a “Bounties” System for Creating Deepfakes of Regular People
AI-Generated Images of White People More Convincing than Real Photos, Scientists Say
You can’t trust your eyes anymore. Hyper Reality A new study has found that when people look at AI-generated images of faces, they’re often convinced they’re the real thing — and race seems to play an important and strange factor as well. In a new paper published in the journal Psychological Science, an international team… Continue reading AI-Generated Images of White People More Convincing than Real Photos, Scientists Say
Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink
“It’s basically a flashing red light that the ecology of this area is being gravely distressed.” PondaVision A pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents. As CNN reports, the coastal salt marsh at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge has been bright pink for at least two weeks… Continue reading Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink
AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans
Oh wow. Invisible Ink Just what we needed: AI mastering its own imperceptible version of invisible ink. As VentureBeat reports, a recent — though yet-to-be-peer-reviewed — study conducted by AI alignment research group Redwood Research found that large language models (LLMs) are incredibly good at a type of steganography dubbed “encoded reasoning.” Basically, the study… Continue reading AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans
A Former FTX Exec is Launching a New Crypto Exchange
What could possibly go wrong? From Ashes Rise Some of FTX’s ex-employees, including an executive who testified against Sam Bankman-Fried, are starting a new crypto exchange. As the Wall Street Journal reports, former FTX general counsel Can Sun and Armani Ferrante, the founder of a crypto token company that the exchange invested in, are starting a… Continue reading A Former FTX Exec is Launching a New Crypto Exchange
AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data
Data plays a central role, if not the central role, in the AI economy. Data is a model’s vital force, both in basic function and in quality; the more natural — as in, human-made — data that an AI system has to train on, the better that system becomes. Unfortunately for AI companies, though, it… Continue reading AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data
Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth
That does not look good. Magma Mayhem Thousands of small tremors have rocked a region in southwest Iceland, roughly an hour’s drive from the capital Reykjavík, last week, alarming residents. The Icelandic Meteorological Office announced today that there was a “significant likelihood” of a volcanic eruption, and 4,000 residents of the nearby town of Grindavik… Continue reading Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth
That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Refused Pentagon Interviews
“He has refused to come and share any of that information.” Out of this World That outlandish UFO whistleblower never came in to talk to the Pentagon’s UFO office, the department’s outgoing chief is claiming. In a new interview with Politico, Sean Kirkpatrick, the outgoing head of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), said that… Continue reading That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Refused Pentagon Interviews
Tesla Vows to Sue Anyone Who Resells Their Cybertruck
Even once you’ve paid for your Cybertruck, you don’t fully own it. The Possessed We’re just over two weeks away from Tesla’s delivery event of its long-awaited Cybertruck, which was first unveiled almost exactly four years ago. And while Tesla has yet to reveal basic information about the pickup truck — including its price —… Continue reading Tesla Vows to Sue Anyone Who Resells Their Cybertruck