Elon Musk has opened a fierce assault on the integrity of AI giants like Google, Microsoft and his former allies at OpenAI. Through lawsuits and viral attacks, he seeks to portray them as fundamentally unsound – biased, domineering and unethical – contrasting these alleged flaws against his own nascent X.AI as the righteous path forward. […]
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Taylor Swift is the latest high-profile victim of the disturbing trend of nonconsensual deepfake pornography. This involves taking images of a person from the internet and digitally altering them to create fake explicit content. The videos and images then spread rapidly across social media platforms. For the victims, discovering deepfakes of themselves can be traumatic.
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As AI permeates deeper into every facet of life by 2050, one overarching question looms – have we retained meaningful human oversight and control amidst increasingly autonomous intelligent systems? Or are we unwittingly ceding agency to inscrutable black-box algorithms optimized for corporate interests rather than societal good? Imagine personalized AI assistants that know users better
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AI technology allows users to create their own AI Girlfriends tailored to their personal fantasies and is poised to disrupt the adult entertainment industry in major ways. Companies are racing to develop AI models that can generate customized pornographic images and videos on demand. While proponents argue AI porn eliminates exploitation and harm, serious ethical
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With the unveiling of Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3), generative AI leader Stability AI aims to cement its pole position in the breakneck race for dominance in synthetic media and imagery. SD3 rounds out a trifecta of new offerings from major players, following OpenAI’s video synthesis marvel Sora and Google’s new Imagen video diffusion model. Promising
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The past year was challenging for many areas of the stock market, with the exception of a few high-profile technology stocks. The tech sector largely buoyed the S&P 500 upward in 2023 while most other sectors struggled amid higher interest rates. For financial advisors and investors evaluating this area, tech’s prospects remain positive for 2024,
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The risks of artificial intelligence can seem overwhelming. For every benefit AI provides, there is an adverse use. One major problem is deepfakes: videos, images, or audio generated by AI that mimic a victim saying or doing something that never happened. Deepfakes can be designed to superimpose a likeness onto real footage, while others are
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OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT, unveiled its newest artificial intelligence creation Sora on Thursday – a text-to-video generator called Sora. This groundbreaking AI tool takes simple text prompts and transforms them into high-quality, minute-long videos complete with complex camera work and emotive characters. Sora’s capabilities are so advanced that AI experts like
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OpenAI unveiled its newest artificial intelligence creation, Sora, on Thursday. Sora is a text-to-video generator that can create realistic videos up to one minute long based on text prompts provided by users. Though not yet available to the public, Sora’s announcement generated enthusiasm about its potential uses as well as concerns about its possible misuse.
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An underground website known only as “OnlyFake” has sparked serious cybersecurity concerns due to the alarming sophistication of the fake IDs it produces, which include realistic-looking photos. A recent investigative report from 404Media described OnlyFake as an “instant fake ID factory” that “threatens to streamline everything from bank fraud to money laundering and has implications
