Deepfakes

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Deepfakes Become Politics as Usual: Deepfakes dominate as India’s election season unfolds.
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Deepfakes Become Politics as Usual: Deepfakes dominate as India’s election season unfolds.

Synthetic depictions of politicians are taking center stage as the world’s biggest democratic election kicks off.
Nude Deepfakes Spur Legislators: Taylor Swift deepfake outrage prompts U.S. lawmakers to propose anti-AI pornography laws.
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Nude Deepfakes Spur Legislators: Taylor Swift deepfake outrage prompts U.S. lawmakers to propose anti-AI pornography laws.

Sexually explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift galvanized public demand for laws against nonconsensual, AI-enabled pornography.
U.S. Politics Goes Generative: U.S. Republicans released the first AI generated attack ad.
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U.S. Politics Goes Generative: U.S. Republicans released the first AI generated attack ad.

A major political party in the United States used generated imagery in a campaign ad. The Republican Party released a video entirely made up of AI-generated images.
Hinton Leaves Google With Regrets: Why Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” resigned from Google
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Hinton Leaves Google With Regrets: Why Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “Godfathers of AI” resigned from Google

A pioneer of deep learning joined the chorus of AI insiders who worry that the technology is becoming dangerous, saying that part of him regrets his life’s work.
Photoshopped picture of George Bush, Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Barack Obama playing UNO
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Voice Clones Go Viral: AI cloned voices take over YouTube, Twitch, and Spotify.

Tired of rap battles composed by ChatGPT? Get ready for the next wave of AI-generated fun and profit. Cloned voices are taking center stage in productions by upstart creators and monied corporations alike.
Synthetic avatar created using the Synthesia demo
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News You Can Misuse: Disinformation groups used AI to spread propaganda.

Political forces used a commercial AI service to generate deepfaked propaganda. Videos have appeared on social media that show AI-generated characters speaking against the United States or in favor of foreign governments. The clips feature synthetic avatars offered by the startup Synthesia.
World map with all countries covered in words except China
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Regulators Target Deepfakes: China's new law limits AI-generated media.

China’s internet watchdog issued new rules that govern synthetic media. Legislation from the Cyberspace Administration of China limits the use of AI to create or edit text, audio, video, images, and 3D digital renderings. The law took effect on January 10.
Open water tap providing sentences instead of water
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Generate Articles, Publish Errors: CNET pauses its practice of writing news articles with AI.

A prominent tech-news website generated controversy (and mistakes) by publishing articles written by AI. CNET suspended its practice of publishing articles produced by a text-generation model following news reports that exposed the articles’ authorship.
DoNotPay's system that autonomously navigates phone menus and converses with customer service representatives working
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Your Personal Deepfaked Agent: This GPT-powered voice tool will talk to customer service for you.

Hate talking to customer service? An AI-powered tool may soon do it for you. Joshua Browder, chief executive of the consumer advocacy organization DoNotPay, demonstrated a system that autonomously navigates phone menus and converses...
Sequence of cellphones showing a photograph turned into art on Lensa AI app
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Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?

A blockbuster app produces sexualized avatar images, even when the original portraits were safe for work.
Office with coworkers transformed into mythical creatures like vampires, ghosts and werewolves
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Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover

The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?
Clip from the movie Fall showing one of the protagonists falling from a radio antenna.
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Deepfakes Against Profanity: Film Makers of Fall Used AI to Remove F-Words

The filmmakers used technology from Flawless AI to clean up the language, enabling the film to earn a rating that welcomes younger viewers.
Theatre masks doing different facial expressions
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Actors Act Against AI: UK Actors Union Launches Campaign Against AI

Performing artists are taking action to protect their earning power against scene-stealing avatars. Equity, a union of UK performing artists, launched a campaign to pressure the government to prohibit unauthorized use of a performer’s AI-generated likeness.
AI-generated video of Yoon Suk-yeol
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AI for President: How South Korean president's campaign used deepfakes

A deepfake of South Korea’s new president helped propel him into office. Yoon Suk-yeol, who won the country’s March 9 election, campaigned using videos that featured an AI-generated likeness of himself answering voters’ questions.
Giant snowman taking over the city while helicopters try to take it down
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Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.

Legislators worldwide wrote new laws — some proposed, some enacted — to rein in societal impacts of automation.What happened: Authorities at all levels ratcheted up regulatory pressure as
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