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Political Deepfakes Will Hijack Your Brain — If You Let Them
21Feb By adminNo Comments
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Political Deepfakes Will Hijack Your Brain — If You Let Them

[ad_1] Realistic AI-generated images and voice recordings may be the newest threat to democracy, but they're part of a longstanding family of deceptions. The way to fight so-called deepfakes isn't to develop some rumor-busting form of AI or to train the public to spot fake images. A better tactic would be to encourage a few well-known critical thinking methods — refocusing our attention, reconsidering our sources, and questioning ourselves.Some of those critical thinking tools fall under the category of “system 2” or slow thinking as described in the book Thinking, Fast and Slow. AI is good at fooling the fast thinking “system 1” — the mode that often jumps to conclusions. We can start by refocusing attention on policies and performance rather than gossip and rumors. So what if former P...
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MIT researchers develop tool to battle deepfakes and AI manipulation; Know how PhotoGuard works
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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MIT researchers develop tool to battle deepfakes and AI manipulation; Know how PhotoGuard works

[ad_1] Deepfakes have emerged as a major talking point this year as a malicious side-effect of artificial intelligence (AI). Many bad actors have used the current boom in this space to use AI editing tools to create fake images of people and institutions. Multiple reports have emerged of criminals creating fake nudes of people and then threatening them to post these photos online if the victim did not pay them money. But now, a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a tool that can help combat this problem.According to a report by MIT Technology Review, researchers have created a tool called PhotoGuard that alters images to protect them from being manipulated by AI systems. Hadi Salman, a contributor to the research and a PhD researcher...
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Microsoft Is Offering to Help US Politicians Crack Down on Deepfakes
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Is Offering to Help US Politicians Crack Down on Deepfakes

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp. is offering US politicians and campaign groups a tool aimed at helping fight the rise of deepfakes ahead of the 2024 presidential election.The new tool will allow parties to authenticate their videos and photos with so-called watermark credentials, Microsoft President Brad Smith said on the company's blog early Wednesday. Using cryptography, the service would create a permanent record of an image or video, allowing anyone on the web to see whether it has been digitally altered or generated using artificial intelligence over time, Smith said. Initially, Microsoft plans to offer the tool for free to political candidates and then may eventually extend it to more groups after the 2024 US elections, a person familiar with the situation said, asking not to be identified...
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Midjourney just banned this man after shocking fake AI images of politicians go viral
3Jul By adminNo Comments
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Midjourney just banned this man after shocking fake AI images of politicians go viral

[ad_1] Over the past few months, there have been several contentious debates about the ills and benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), with AI researchers and experts even claiming that it could bring about humanity's extinction if we're not careful. The spread of misinformation has been one of the hot topics, with cases related to AI "hallucinations" and Deepfakes causing controversy. Recently, Midjourney, the popular generative AI program, was used to create fake images of politicians that were shocking. They quickly went viral and the user has now been banned from the platform itself.Fake images created using MidjourneyFor the unaware, Midjourney is a generative AI platform created by a San Francisco-based independent research lab Midjourney, Inc. Like OpenAI's DALL-E and BigSleep...
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Twitter launches crackdown against fake photos, videos; this is how it works
2Jun By adminNo Comments
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Twitter launches crackdown against fake photos, videos; this is how it works

[ad_1] Fake photos and videos have become quite common due to the emergence of editing tools. Now, with the rising popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) tools the number of manipulated videos and photos have simply skyrocketted. It has even made it extremely difficult to check the credibility of the source of the material. What makes it even more concerning is that common people may unknowingly share such fake imagery on social media platforms without verifying the original source, thereby contributing to the spread of misinformation and social unrest. The same applies to Twitter and it is reportedly fighting back. The portal has now come up with a crowdsourced fact-check feature called 'Community Notes'."Community Notes are frequently added to Tweets that feature images or videos....
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