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Stable Diffusion 3: Stability AI Seeks Decisive Edge in AI Image Race

February 23, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

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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Capturing Tech Growth and Income Opportunities in 2024

February 20, 2024 / By OMA / 5 minutes of reading

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 Explosion of Deepfake Porn: AI Tools to Detect and Deter Manipulation

February 19, 2024 / By OMA / 4 minutes of reading

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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Sora, OpenAI's Powerful Text-to-Video AI, Terrifies Experts Over Deepfake Potential

OpenAI’s New AI Video Generator Sora Has Experts Sounding Alarm on Deepfakes

February 18, 2024 / By OMA / 4 minutes of reading

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 Unveils New AI Video Generator Sora, Spurring Excitement and Concerns

February 16, 2024 / By OMA / 4 minutes of reading

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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OnlyFake Instant Fake ID Factory Producing 20,000 Hyper-Realistic Forgeries Per Day Poses Massive Online Security Risk

February 8, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

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

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Coca-Cola’s Eerie AI-Generated Super Bowl Ad Crosses the Line

February 6, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

Coca-Cola-owned sports drink brand Bodyarmor has released an early version of its Super Bowl commercial using generative AI, aiming to set itself apart from competitors like Gatorade. However, the ad, titled “Field of Fake,” has drawn criticism for its unsettling imagery and questionable use of AI. The commercial features distorted visuals of morphing body parts

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Tatler's Messi Debacle: Hong Kong Lawmakers Demand Refunds After Superstar Sits Out Hyped Match

Hong Kong Messi Debacle: Lawmakers Demand Refunds After Superstar Sits Out Hyped Match

February 5, 2024 / By OMA / 4 minutes of reading

Tatler, the organizer behind the HongKong exhibition match, whose events arm aims to “celebrate the best of Asia and bring communities together to connect, share and learn through experiences showcasing the region’s finest talent.” But the lack of transparency and planning around Messi’s involvement fell far short of those lofty goals. Hong Kong lawmakers and

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This AI Audio Sounds Real But It's Actually Fake - Here's Why Detection is So Hard

The Rapid Rise of Deceptive AI Audio – Why Experts Struggle to Reliably Detect Deepfakes

February 5, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

The emergence of artificial intelligence capable of generating realistic fake audio content poses alarming new challenges. Once merely theoretical, this technology has rapidly advanced to the point that convincing mimicries of real people’s voices are now readily produced and increasingly accessible. The existence of these AI audio generators, and the difficulty of reliably detecting their

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AI2’s “Truly Open Source” OLMo LLM Signals Critical Shift Towards Democratized AI

February 4, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

The non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has introduced OLMo, a revolutionary new open source large language model framework. By providing full access to training data, code, model weights and evaluation tools, OLMo represents a critical shift towards democratized and transparent AI development. Unlike other models that have included select components, OLMo’s “completely open”

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