Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices
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How tech from London-based AI startup Synthesia, backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela's government
Financial Times : Tweets: @mohamed , @madhumita29 , and @joeparkdan See also Mediagazer Tweets: Mohamed Nanabhay / @mohamed : Generative AI used to create fake news readers who spread disinformation ...
How Syrian human rights group Mnemonic used AI trained on synthetic data to analyze videos for evidence that “cluster” weapon RBK-250 was used against civilians
Technique used to teach Tesla cars and Amazon Alexa has gathered evidence of weapons used against civilians Tweets: @financialtimes , @sylviakangara , @samjoiner , and @madhumita29 Tweets: @financialt...
Researchers describe Meta's roadblocks, including pre-publication review and restrictive contracts, to stifle research that might cast it in a negative light
Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access tool that allows academics to do research on Facebook. Tweets: @paultang , @emmalbrian...
Sources: Accenture has sent a form to Facebook content moderators working at a European facility requiring them to acknowledge that their job could cause PTSD
or else Mehreen Kasana / Input : Report: YouTube moderators forced to sign legal documents acknowledging possibility of PTSD BeauHD / Slashdot : YouTube Moderators Are Being Forced To Sign PTSD Forms ...
Google says it found five separate flaws in Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention tool for Safari that lets users' browsing behavior be tracked
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Microsoft has pulled its facial recognition database, MS Celeb, which contained 10M+ images of ~100K individuals scraped under the Creative Commons license
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A comprehensive look at the plethora of face datasets, available upon request from universities and US government, used to train facial recognition software
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : Tweets: @matt_odell , @_jpfox , @arcalinea , @anncavoukian , @hoofnagle , @hoofnagle , and @eff Tweets: Matt Odell / @matt_odell : “Now somebody's face is used as...
Source: Yahoo began investigating Peace claims in July, found no evidence of a breach, then later launched a deeper probe that uncovered “state-sponsored” hack
Madhumita Murgia in London, Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco and David J Lynch in Washington