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VOICE ARCHIVE

Pranshu Verma

@pranshuverma_
10 posts
2024-05-18
new: We got access to six AI-generated news broadcasts that ISIS affiliates have released since March to disseminate propaganda. “For ISIS, AI means a game changer.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-05-18 View on X
Washington Post

A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply

The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply.

2024-03-29
new: AI scammers stole these women's faces. Now their clones sell erectile dysfunction pills and praise Vladimir Putin. Celebrities aren't the only ones getting AI-cloned without their consent, now ordinary women are too, @nitashatiku and I found. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-03-29 View on X
Washington Post

Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas

Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas X: @robleat...

2023-12-20
new: Since May, AI fake news sites have ballooned by over 1,000%. They can churn out misinfo about elections, wars + natural disasters far quicker than troll farms & propaganda networks. “This is why we call it the next great misinformation superspreader."https://www.washingtonpo st.com/ ...
2023-12-20 View on X
Washington Post

NewsGuard: since May 2023, websites hosting AI-created fake news articles have grown from 49 to 600+; some post “hundreds if not thousands of articles” per day

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . X: @pranshuverma_ . LinkedIn: Franky Saegerman Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : The ...

2023-12-11
new: Since 2020, the @DisinfoLab has attacked US-based critics of the Modi govt while staying anonymous. But a WaPo investigation found it was formed and run by Lt. Col. Dibya Satpathy, an intelligence officer with India's R&AW. w/ @gerryshih + @ccemorse https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-12-11 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Disinfo Lab: set up by an Indian intelligence officer to run a covert social media influence operation discrediting the Modi government's critics

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2023-11-22
been swamped with OpenAI news to tweet, but this is a must read report from @lizzadwoskin and @nitashatiku on Sam Altman's past. Filled with reporting and insight that only comes from consistent dominance on a beat https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

been swamped with OpenAI news to tweet, but this is a must read report from @lizzadwoskin and @nitashatiku on Sam Altman's past. Filled with reporting and insight that only comes from consistent dominance on a beat https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-11-22 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: in 2019, Paul Graham flew from the UK to San Francisco to fire his protégé Sam Altman from YC, worried that Altman put his interests ahead of YC

Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator … X: @cher0x801 , @bigmeaninternet , @deljohnsonvc , @josh_wills , @itsurboy...

2023-11-09
.@drewharwell's insanely good story inside a $16 million OnlyFans empire. From the dateline to the kicker, it's a must read.https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-11-09 View on X
Washington Post

Inside Bryce Adams and Brian Adam's OnlyFans empire run from a $2.5M Florida compound: ~$10M in annual revenue and a $1M+ payroll; Adams' OF has $16.5M in sales

SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA — In the mornings, the workers of Bryce Adams's OnlyFans empire buzz in through a camera-wired security gate … X: @pranshuverma_ , @drewharwell , @merylkornfie...

2023-04-06
new: ChatGPT said a law prof. sexually touched a student on a class Alaska trip, citing a 2018 WaPo article as proof. There was no WaPo article. No trip. He said he'd never been accused of sexual assault. What happens when chatbots lie. w/@WillOremus https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-04-06 View on X
Washington Post

Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor

The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence

2023-03-06
new: AI voice-cloning tech is making phone scams frighteningly believable. I talked to some who got duped. They were elderly + heard their loved one needed cash now. They felt it might be a scam, but the voice sounded too real to ignore. One lost $21k. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-03-06 View on X
Washington Post

Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it

Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress.  People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.

2022-05-03
new: Crypto was supposed to make these traders rich. Instead, they got addicted, depressed, financially reckless, and more. “Crypto is like going into Hades,” @joannagarzilli told me. “Crypto can bring out the darkest parts of ourselves.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-05-03 View on X
Washington Post

Addiction scholars say cryptocurrency has characteristics that make it more addictive than sports betting, gambling, and traditional financial investing

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Tweets: @pranshuverma_ , @lucasmtny , and @coin_trades Tweets: Pranshu Verma / @pranshuverma_ : new: Crypto was supposed to make these traders ri...