University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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Anyone who’s spent a moment observing US political chatter in recent months has probably encountered the following prediction: 2024 will yield the world’s first deepfake election.
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A new investigation shows that YouTube has a bug that allows users to upload hardcore pornography to its platform. To make matters funnier, it isn’t exactly clear that YouTube knows how to fix the bug or that it is capable of taking down all the explicit material that has been uploaded.
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The Community Notes fact-checking system on X, formerly known as Twitter, linked to a porn video in a post debunking a rumor about Nina Agdal, a Danish model and fiancée to influencer turned boxer Logan Paul.
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Elon Musk’s rebrand of Twitter to “X” faces yet another setback this week after it was blocked in Indonesia for violating local pornography and gambling laws.
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Neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels. Wicker baskets filled with packages of pasta, crackers and snacks.
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The sudden explosion of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other large language models has led to renewed attention on artificial intelligence that’s capable of mimicking speech, especially for well-known figures.
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Sure, there’s been a lot of attention being paid to deep fakes of celebrities and major public figures.
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Not to be left behind in any trend-chasing, Hollywood is scrambling after the promise of artificial intelligence. In this case, one movie is banking its premise on the promise of AI-driven deepfake tech.