WIRED: Why Fake Drake Is Here to Stay
WIRED: Why Fake Drake Is Here to Stay . “We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.”
The Verge: Twitter is adding crowdsourced fact checks to images
The Verge: Twitter is adding crowdsourced fact checks to images. “Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly after a fake image went viral claiming to show an ‘explosion’ near the Pentagon.”
Stuff New Zealand: To combat AI this election, we need to rediscover the art of conversation
Stuff New Zealand: To combat AI this election, we need to rediscover the art of conversation. “ChatGPT, the AI engine at the centre of the current controversies around machine intelligence, itself suggests the negative impacts could be disinformation and manipulation, deepfake technology, biased algorithms, voter profiling and microtargeting – proving that ChatGPT might be more self-aware than the average beltway politician.”
Slashgear: TikTok Users Are Reimagining Alternative Human Histories With Generative AI
Slashgear: TikTok Users Are Reimagining Alternative Human Histories With Generative AI . “New AI trends just kept coming; the latest one is very thought-provoking and creative. TikTokers have created viral videos with pictures and accompanying textual descriptions of what the world would look like if human history were changed. Most of these videos try to explore different narratives by changing important details of specific historical events, for example, the victors of a pretty significant conflict in human history.”
New York Times: Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT
New York Times: Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT. “A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on artificial intelligence to help prepare a court filing. It did not go well.”
Poynter: Pink slime from AI content farms is a poor substitute for real journalism
Poynter: Pink slime from AI content farms is a poor substitute for real journalism. “It’s pink slime on steroids. I’m writing, of course, about the creators of AI content farms that quickly churn out content related to current events using generative AI language-bots, like Open AI’s Chat GPT and Google’s Bard. A May 1 investigation by NewsGuard, an online trust-rating platform for news, found more than 49 such AI-generated content sites in seven languages: English, Tagalog, Portuguese, Thai, French, Czech and Chinese.”
Motherboard: Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don’t Exist
Motherboard: Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don’t Exist. “People trying to use Discord are being asked to identify an object that does not exist. The object in question is a ‘Yoko,’ which appears to be a kind of mix between a snail and a yoyo.”
PetaPixel: Photographer Creates Lifelike Social Media Influencer Using Only AI
PetaPixel: Photographer Creates Lifelike Social Media Influencer Using Only AI. “A photographer whose work has transitioned to being ‘80% AI’ has generated a lifelike social media influencer using artificial intelligence (AI). Antti Karppinen did not use his camera at all during his latest project for Finnish energy giant Helen where he created a children’s character called Ellen.”
Dazed: Grimes calls song made by AI-cloning her voice a ‘masterpiece’
Dazed: Grimes calls song made by AI-cloning her voice a ‘masterpiece’. “Last month, Grimes urged fans to create songs using her AI-generated voice through her new website Elf.Tech, where anyone can upload themselves singing and have their voice generated in the style of the artist, free of charge. Now, an LA-based artist called Kito has released a new track ‘Cold Touch’ using the software – and, according to Grimes, it’s a ‘masterpiece’.”
Tom’s Guide: Forget Photoshop — AI imaging tool lets you edit photos with no experience
Tom’s Guide: Forget Photoshop — AI imaging tool lets you edit photos with no experience. “Photo editing could become the next area conquered by AI thanks to an exciting new tool unveiled by a group of researchers from Google. Working with the Max Planck Institute of Informatics, they have created a point-based image manipulation tool called DragGAN. Essentially, it’s able to incrementally move multiple points of an image along a target trajectory defined by the user. The really clever part is AI keeps the output within the bounds of a realistic-looking image.” The first time I saw this I didn’t think it was real.
Motherboard: Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion
Motherboard: Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion. “Accounts such as @WarMonitors, @BloombergFeed, and RT posted an image of a large, gray smoke cloud appearing next to a white government building with a corresponding caption that stated there was an explosion near the Pentagon. Bellingcat journalist Nick Waters tweeted that there are a few signs that make it an AI image, including that the fence melds into the crowd barriers on the image and there are no other images or videos being posted on social media.”
Caltech: Reviving the Past with Artificial Intelligence
Caltech: Reviving the Past with Artificial Intelligence. “While studying John Singer Sargent’s paintings of wealthy women in 19th-century society, Jessica Helfand, a former Caltech artist in residence, had an idea: to search census records to find the identities of those women’s servants. ‘I thought, “What happens if I paint these women in the style of John Singer Sargent?”‘… To recreate a style from history, she turned to technology that, increasingly, is driving the future.”
Berkeley News: Generative AI meets copyright law
Berkeley News: Generative AI meets copyright law. “On Wednesday, April 26, Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, delivered the final of four Distinguished Lectures on the Status and Future of AI, co-hosted by CITRIS Research Exchange and the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Group (BAIR). Samuelson’s talk explores a particularly controversial topic in the legal community: whether the texts and images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) should be protected under copyright law.”
Glossy: Elizabeth Arden uses generative AI for new virtual store launch
Glossy: Elizabeth Arden uses generative AI for new virtual store launch. “Launching on Tuesday, the immersive VR store created by experiential e-commerce firm Obsess allows users to click through a virtual space based on Elizabeth Arden’s historic Fifth Avenue salon with its iconic red door. It features product information alongside a mini online museum on the history of the brand.”
CNBC: Google plans to use new A.I. models for ads and to help YouTube creators, sources say
CNBC: Google plans to use new A.I. models for ads and to help YouTube creators, sources say. “The company has given the green light to plans for using generative AI, fueled by large language models (LLMs), to automate advertising and ad-supported consumer services, according to internal documents.”