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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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Inside the AI Influencer Economy: Monetization, Growth Tactics, and Tight-Knit Communities

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

There is a new type of online influencer that is gaining popularity – the AI-generated avatar. Dozens of these fictional characters, like Aika Kittie and Alexis Ivyedge, have amassed hundreds of thousands of Instagram and Twitter followers with their flawless yet eerie photos. Behind these AI influencers are real creators collaborating in closed online communities

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Meta Bets the House on Exploiting User Data for AI Supremacy

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

Mark Zuckerberg Boasts Meta’s AI Strategy Banks on Billions of Posts We Handed Over Meta’s plan to beat the competition in artificial intelligence relies heavily on the billions of images, posts, comments and videos that users have freely shared on its platforms over the years. In the company’s recent earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained

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Apple Teases Major AI Announcement for 2024

February 2, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

Apple CEO Tim Cook provided a tantalizing tease regarding Apple’s future artificial intelligence plans during the company’s earnings call on Thursday. While light on specifics, Cook’s remarks indicated Apple intends to compete with AI leaders like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and OpenAI. Cook stated, “Let me just say that I think there’s a huge opportunity for

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Bring AI Experts Into Any Chat With ChatGPT’s New @-Mention

February 1, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

ChatGPT recently announced a new feature that allows users to bring in custom AI personalities, called “GPTs”, into conversations by using @ mentions. This opens up new possibilities for collaborating with different expert roles within ChatGPT’s platform. Previously, sharing information between GPT profiles required manually copying text between chat windows and re-explaining context. The new

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New Guidelines Aim to Crack Down on Deepfakes and Cyberflashing, But Will They Be Enforced?

January 31, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

The Crown Prosecution Service has issued new guidelines instructing prosecutors to consider bringing charges against “deepfake” images, as recent online safety laws come into effect. Deepfakes are digitally manipulated images of people published with malicious intent. The guidelines also cover similar abusive behaviors like “downblousing,” capturing unwanted images down a woman’s top, and “cyberflashing,” sending

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Showcase Your AI Skills: Tips for Job Seekers in the AI Era

January 30, 2024 / By OMA / 3 minutes of reading

AI skills are now mandatory for all job seekers. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, employers expect candidates to have hands-on experience applying AI, not just theoretical knowledge. As someone working with AI daily, I have advice on how to stand out. Getting Hired in 2024: How to Demonstrate Your AI Skills to

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The Deepfake Detection Arms Race: Startups Battle to Authenticate Content in Israel’s War

January 29, 2024 / By OMA / 4 minutes of reading

As dawn broke on Oct. 7, air-raid sirens blasted out across Tel Aviv, alerting residents to take shelter from an apparent attack. Messages on cell phones soon revealed that Hamas gunmen were allegedly waging mass slaughter on Israelis and seizing hundreds of hostages less than an hour away. Over 1,200 Israelis were reported dead, and

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