“Experts around the world are getting increasingly worried about new AI tools that make it easier than ever to edit images and videos — especially with social media’s power to share shocking content quickly and without fact-checking.”
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“The AI-assisted face-swapping technology known as deepfakes has not gone unnoticed by Hollywood, and now union SAG-AFTRA is working to “fight back” by opening up new legislative avenues.”
“Film and television have long had an equal representation problem, and a new website is here to address the issue.”
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“Kate Crawford, speaking at the AI Now conference at MIT this week.”
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“Facial recognition is becoming more and more common, but ask anyone how to avoid it and they’ll say: easy, just wear a mask. In the future, though, that might not be enough.”
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“Facial recognition is becoming more and more common, but ask anyone how to avoid it and they’ll say: easy, just wear a mask. In the future, though, that might not be enough.”
Read: The next challenge for facial recognition is identifying people whose faces are covered
“The buzz over artificial intelligence (AI) has grown loud enough to penetrate the C-suites of organizations around the world, and for good reason. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.”
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“For years we’ve been recorded in public on security cameras, police bodycams, livestreams, other people’s social media posts, and on and on.”
“About five or six years ago, one of Karl Ricanek’s students showed him a video on YouTube. It was a time lapse of a person undergoing hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, in order to transition genders.”
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“There’s a saying in the mushroom-picking community that all mushrooms are edible but some mushrooms are only edible once. That’s why, when news spread on Twitter of an app that used “revolutionary AI” to identify mushrooms with a single picture, mycologists and fungi-foragers were worried.”
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