It is every parent's worst nightmare - an image or video of your child you posted to social media ends up on a sexually explicit website. Some had their children preyed on by pedophiles - who are becoming increasingly sophisticated with tech like AI - turned into cruel memes by trolls or had their identities stolen by hackers. These scenarios have been highlighted in a new advert aimed at warning parents about the dangers of oversharing on social media. Recent studies show the average child has their picture shared online 1,300 times before the age of 13, and the advertisement suggests that it takes just one photo and AI to recreate innocent children in ways most parents could never imagine. The ad revealed it takes just one photo and AI to ruin a child's future.

For the first time in 63 years, writers and actors are on strike, grinding Hollywood to a halt with a historic double strike. You've probably recognized some of the celebrities at the picket line. These actors, similar to writers on strike, are demanding increased pay and protections from artificial intelligence. But the vast majority of striking members are far from household names, actors who are all but certain to survive the major economic consequences of both strikes as they drag on for weeks or even months. Instead, they're working-class individuals forced to live "paycheck to paycheck," according to SAG LA's Vice President Michelle Hurd--and they want the world to know a few facts.

AI scams that employ synthetic voice and images pull data from TikTok, Facebook and Snapchat to fabricate fake hostages' voices and images, security adviser says. Debbie Shelton Moore picked up the phone and heard the sound of her frightened 22-year-old daughter's voice calling for help. Then a man took the phone and demanded ransom. "The man had said, 'Your daughter's been kidnapped and we want $50,000,'" the Georgia mother told 11Alive, an Atlanta NBC affiliate. "Then they had her crying, like, 'Mom, mom' in the background."

"Oppenheimer" director Christopher Nolan spoke of the historical significance in artificial intelligence and compared it to the creation of the atomic bomb. 'OPPENHEIMER MOMENT': Hollywood director Christopher Nolan spoke with Fox News Digital on artificial intelligence's "Oppenheimer moment." Nolan compared AI to the creation of the atomic bomb and stated, "It's really the looking back through Oppenheimer's story and saying, 'Okay, what could have been done differently? What are the responsibilities of people who create technology that can go out and have unintended impacts?'" Continue reading… 'MINING OUR PERSONHOODS': Companies like OpenAI and Google have taken your data to train AI systems, attorney Ryan J. Clarkson writes in an op-ed. If you posted it, its most likely been taken.

After almost six years, Beats is back with new over-ear, noise-canceling headphones. A significant update from the Studio 3 Wireless, the new Studio Pro is a familiar formula that's been reconfigured from the inside out. A second-generation version of Beats' own audio chip powers this new model, delivering improvements to active noise cancellation (ANC), spatial audio with dynamic head tracking and wired audio modes via USB-C connection. Small design tweaks and slightly better battery life are also on the spec sheet, while the price remains $350 for Beats' flagship headphones. To refresh the aesthetics, Beats enlisted the help of Samuel Ross, a fashion and product designer who has worked with Hublot, Nike, Oakley and others.

A banal dystopia where manipulative content is so cheap to make and so easy to produce on a massive scale that it becomes ubiquitous: that's the political future digital experts are worried about in the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI). In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, social media platforms were vectors for misinformation as far-right activists, foreign influence campaigns and fake news sites worked to spread false information and sharpen divisions. Four years later, the 2020 election was overrun with conspiracy theories and baseless claims about voter fraud that were amplified to millions, fueling an anti-democratic movement to overturn the election. Now, as the 2024 presidential election comes into view, experts warn that advances in AI have the potential to take the disinformation tactics of the past and breathe new life into them. AI-generated disinformation not only threatens to deceive audiences, but also erode an already embattled information ecosystem by flooding it with inaccuracies and deceptions, experts say. "Degrees of trust will go down, the job of journalists and others who are trying to disseminate actual information will become harder," said Ben Winters, a senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy research nonprofit.

In the 1990 fantasy drama - Truly, Madly, Deeply, lead character Nina, (Juliet Stevenson), is grieving the recent death of her boyfriend Jamie (Alan Rickman). Sensing her profound sadness, Jamie returns as a ghost to help her process her loss. If you've seen the film, you'll know that his reappearance forces her to question her memory of him and, in turn, accept that maybe he wasn't as perfect as she'd remembered. Here in 2023, a new wave of AI-based "grief tech" offers us all the chance to spend time with loved ones after their death -- in varying forms. But unlike Jamie (who benevolently misleads Nina), we're being asked to let artificial intelligence serve up a version of those we survive.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is striking against studios in pursuit of a new contract that lets writers participate more fully in the industry. The central disagreements are about economics, but the issue that has captured the most public attention is the threat posed by so-called artificial intelligence--products like ChatGPT--to the livelihood of creative professionals, including writers. ChatGPT is a generative AI program that has been trained on a massive corpus of text to predict the word or words that should follow a text prompt or word string. It is not intelligent, though its user interface has been designed to create that illusion. Studios perceive that generative AI is a tool they can use against writers.

The article you are about to read was written by a human. This kind of disclaimer will become an everyday occurrence as chatbots, or large language models, infiltrate deeper into our media space. Doubts about the veracity of such disclaimers will also become commonplace. With the leaps and bounds registered by machine learning and large language models over the past couple of years, it is becoming increasingly difficult to prove that a human is on the other side of a written or spoken communication. How would I prove to you that these words were the product of human creativity and exertion?

Nick Clegg has defended the release of an open-source artificial intelligence model by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, as he claimed that "hype" about AI's dangers was running ahead of the technology's development. The president of global affairs at Meta and former UK deputy prime minister spoke on Wednesday after the company said it was opening access to its new large language model (LLM), Llama 2, which will be free for research and commercial use. LLMs are trained on vast amounts of data and underpin generative AI products such as the ChatGPT chatbot. Some experts have warned that making AI models open source – or freely available to use and adapt for unique purposes – could lead to the technology being used for malicious purposes. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Clegg said: "My view is that the hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology. I think a lot of the existential warnings relate to models that don't currently exist, so-called super-intelligent, super-powerful AI models – the vision where AI develops an autonomy and agency on its own, where it can think for itself and reproduce itself. "The models that we're open-sourcing are far, far, far short of that.