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Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads
Snapchat’s “My Selfie” by default reserves the right to use your likeness in ads.
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Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History
A Google Search for “Hieronymus Bosch” returned an AI-generated version of The Garden of Earthly Delights pulled from an AI slop blog.
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Neanderthals Would Rather Die than Talk to You
Welcome to The Abstract, a new weekly column from 404 Media about new, mind blowing scientific studies.
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Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists
Hawaii’s The Garden Island newspaper is producing video news segments with AI. The union at its parent company calls it “digital colonialism.”
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In Wake of Durov Arrest, Some Cybercriminals Ditch Telegram
Hackers, fraudsters, and drug dealers are all leaving the platform in one way or another. Some are worried that Telegram may start providing user data to the authorities.
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Kamala Harris Campaign Experiments With Ads for an Audience With “Brain Rot”
The Harris campaign is creating “overstimulation,” “ADHD,” or “content sludge” videos designed to appeal to a very online audience with a short attention span.
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Sextortion Scammers Try to Scare People by Sending Photos of Their Homes
If you got an email containing your address and a PDF with a photo of your street, don't freak out: it's a fake sextortion scheme.
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NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones."
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Massive AI Dataset Back Online After Being ‘Cleaned’ of Child Sexual Abuse Material
LAION-5B is back, with thousands of links removed after research last year that showed it contained instances of abusive content.
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Apple’s Huge “Dual Use” Face Swap App Problem Is Not Going Away
Maybe Apple should ban face swapping apps entirely.
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This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model
GameNGen is an interesting proof-of-concept for a diffusion model-based “game engine.”
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1 in 10 Minors Say Their Friends Use AI to Generate Nudes of Other Kids, Survey Finds
A new survey attempts to quantify just how common it is for minors to AI-generate nudes of other minors.