5 things about AI you may have missed today: Meta implements new policies to combat deepfakes, China may misuse AI, more

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Meta implements new policies to combat deepfakes, China may misuse AI, more

Meta implements new policies to combat deepfakes; AI-powered diabetes program revolutionises health management; AI-powered diabetes program revolutionises health management; Study Reveals Racial Bias in AI Chatbots- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. Meta implements new policies to combat deepfakesMeta, the parent company of Facebook, implements new policies addressing deepfakes and altered media. It will introduce "Made with AI" labels for AI-generated content, expanding to include videos, images, and audio. Additionally, more prominent labels will identify manipulated content posing high deception risks. Meta shifts from content removal to transparency, aiming to inform viewers about the content's creation process, according to a report by Reuters. Also read: X...

YouTube scraps 2020 US election misinformation policy

YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 US presidential election was plagued by "fraud, errors or glitches," the platform said Friday, a decision quickly criticized by anti-misinformation advocates. The announcement by the Google-owned video website is a marked departure from its policy initiated in December 2020, which attempted to curb false claims -- most importantly pushed by then-president Donald Trump -- that his re-election loss to Joe Biden was due to the vote being "stolen." "The ability to openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial or based on disproven assumptions, is core to a functioning democratic society -- especially in the midst of election season," YouTube said in a blog post. "We will stop removing content that advances...

YouTube to Label US Election-Related Videos and Searches With Context

Videos will be paired with information in Spanish and English to impact spread of misinformation YouTube said that it will add contextual information underneath election-related videos and in search results for the US midterms in the coming weeks, an initiative aimed at curbing the spread of falsehoods on the Google-owned video platform. YouTube will roll out information panels in two languages, English and Spanish, when users search for information about the election, Leslie Miller, YouTube's vice-president of government affairs and public policy, said Thursday in a blog post. The video site will also promote authoritative content from national and local news sources, and work to quickly remove videos that violate its co...