AI generated video has just changed forever

#AI #CoSoSec

Simultaneously really impressive and really Scarry

https://youtu.be/NXpdyAWLDas

ChatGPT started throwing out “unexpected responses” on Tuesday night according to OpenAI’s status page. Users posted screenshots of their ChatGPT conversations full of wild, nonsensical answers from the AI chatbot. The issue appeared ongoing Wed

#AI

“We are investigating reports of unexpected responses from ChatGPT,” said OpenAI on its status page Tues night. “We’re continuing to monitor the situation,”

https://status.openai.com/

Resolved - ChatGPT is operating normally.
Feb 21, 08:14 PST

AI System Beats Chess Puzzles With ‘Artificial Brainstorming’

#AI #Chess

By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative problem-solving.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/google-deepmind-trains-artificial-brainstorming-in-chess-ai-20231115/

Google promised to fix Gemini, and some improvements are already here

#AI #Google #gemini

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-highlights-recent-gemini-updates

Reddit will let “an unnamed large AI company” have access to its user-generated content platform in a new licensing deal, according to Bloomberg yesterday

#Reddit #SocialMedia #AI

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-content

meanwhile: Google rebranding Bard to Gemini, the change was made official just a few days ago.

#AI

The Google Gemini app is now accessible in multiple regions outside the US

while also announcing a beefed-up model known as Gemini Advanced, available with the $20/month Google OneAI Premium Plan.

the company launched the Gemini mobile app to replace Assistant

interesting article

What the birth of the spreadsheet can teach us about generative AI

#AI

Lessons from an earlier software tool that changed the world

https://www.ft.com/content/c5f7909f-0bac-40fa-b5a8-ff34c38b89a9

"Normalizing AI-powered monitoring at transport hubs is a slippery slope towards a surveillance state, and must be subject to greater transparency and public consultation"

#BigBrotherWatch #AI

Tfl tested an AI system combined with CCTV footage on Underground commuters to monitor behaviour

Documents sent to WIRED in response to a Freedom of Information Act request detail how TfL used a wide range of computer vision algorithms to track people’s behavior

https://www.wired.com/story/london-underground-ai-surveillance-documents/

Check out this article on how GeoSPY AI can support and accelerate your OSINT investigations

#AI #OSINT

https://osintteam.blog/how-geospyai-can-be-used-to-aid-in-osint-investigations-29a35cb71ecf

Perhaps Churchill was right: The uncertainty of what lies ahead, good or bad, may just be the thing that keeps us hopeful about the future.

#AI

Legislating the Future—Safeguarding Creativity in the Age of AI | Opinion

https://www.newsweek.com/legislating-futuresafeguarding-creativity-age-ai-opinion-1867890

Elderly Republican and Democratic lawmakers are coming together to introduce legislation they say cracks down on "AI fraud"—but in reality, these overbroad bills would severely curtail free expression online and potentially prohibit everything from South Park episodes to memes featuring famous people.

#AI

Boomers in Congress Are About to Outlaw Memes | Opinion

https://www.newsweek.com/boomers-congress-are-about-outlaw-memes-opinion-1867909

can AI make you immortal ?

#AI #RealStories

https://youtu.be/g2sMRwPfb54

Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million

#AI

Recordings of past vidchats suspected as source of fakery – so there's another class of data you need to lock down

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/05/hong_kong_deepfaked_cfo/

meanwhile: in #AI

EU member states approve world-first AI law

https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-approves-ai-act

and

UK fails to reach consensus on AI copyright code in major blow to artists

https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-ai-copyright-code-artists

After the whole Taylor Swift pornographic deepfake fiasco, you'd think Google Bard might be a little more careful.

#AI #Bard

Google said, "we apply filters designed to avoid the generation of images of named people."

In other words you're not supposed to be able to generate images of famous people

one user on X (formerly Twitter) found out it, was surprisingly easy to generate an image of Taylor Swift

https://twitter.com/RussPalmer/status/1753488021335544314

With major elections in the UK, US and India due this year, there are also concerns audio deepfakes - the name for the kind of sophisticated fake voices AI can create - could be used to generate misinformation aimed at manipulating the democratic outcomes

#AI #Politics #CoSoSec

Should we fear an attack of the voice clones?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68074257

A lifetime subscription to vidBoard Creative AI Presenter is on sale for £39.28, saving you 88% on list price.

#AI #Creators

You'll have a choice of 70 digital AI avatars to use as your presenter. And you get your choice of 20 templates before you customise your presentation with text, graphics, music, and uploaded videos and images. And because vidBoard supports more than 125 languages, your videos will have a multilingual reach.

/nosnitize

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https://shop.mashable.com/sales/vidboard-plan-a-lifetime-subscription

Perhaps this comes as no surprise, but AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) top of the list of the hottest technologies expected for 2024

#AI #Tech

Outlook 2024: What Comes Next for Tech?

https://connectedworld.com/outlook-2024-what-comes-next-for-tech/

Counterfeit drugs are running rampant around the world. Case in point: More than one million people die each year from counterfeit drugs and more than 200,000 people die each year from counterfeit anti-allergy drugs alone

#AI can help

an AI-based counterfeit detector comes from Cypheme. Found in OpenAI’s GPTStore, this tech can allow consumers to verify the authenticity of health products using a smartphone.

https://www.cypheme.com

Report: IWF research into how artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to create child sexual abuse imagery online.

#AI

(report PDF)

https://share.counter.social/s/c14f30

realistic full-motion video content will become commonplace. The first examples of short AI CSAM videos have already been seen – these are only going to get more realistic and more widespread.