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A new California law will ban the creation and distribution of deepfake pornography produced without the consent of the person it depicts. Statutory damages range between $1,500 and $30,000, while cases in which malice can be demonstrated, damages rise to $150,000. The bill is part of a larger deepfake package that will also make it illegal to create and distribute deepfake videos of political figures within 60 days of an election. Katy Perry's face (pictured above) was swapped onto an adult film actress' body for a short video, something that the new California law will make illegal. Almost all deepfake videos are circulated online are pornographic, with one study suggesting the figure is 96 percent.

This summer, student interns at Booz Allen Hamilton bested the competition on edge computing with the help of NVIDIA Jetson Nano. The Booz Allen Summer Games Challenge (SGC) calls on student interns across the U.S. to develop breakthrough solutions for its clients' most pressing problems. This summer, Project RAZOR placed top 10 among artificial intelligence and machine learning projects with a fully autonomous ground vehicle powered by Nano. The team competed against 80 other teams of four to five students developing projects over 10 weeks. Previous SGC winning projects include technology that helps the blind navigate, as well as ways to fight human trafficking and global disease.

That said, I am really confused by OpenAI's PR strategy for GPT-2; they push it heavily as the future of text writing, but all of their GPT-2 related repos are archived w/o any updates expected.

Artificial intelligence could be destabilizing the internet news ecosystem. And according to billionaire Elon Musk, social media is the first to fall prey. Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" -- if, he opined, it hasn't done so already. He added that "anonymous bot swarms" are "evolving rapidly." It's unclear what exactly Musk was referring to when he warned about "advanced AI" and "anonymous bot swarms."

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In November 2017, a Reddit account called deepfakes posted pornographic clips made with software that pasted the faces of Hollywood actresses over those of the real performers. Nearly two years later, deepfake is a generic noun for video manipulated or fabricated with artificial intelligence software. The technique has drawn laughs on YouTube, along with concern from lawmakers fearful of political disinformation. Yet a new report that tracked the deepfakes circulating online finds they mostly remain true to their salacious roots. Startup Deeptrace took a kind of deepfake census during June and July to inform its work on detection tools it hopes to sell to news organizations and online platforms.

The social internet has a bot problem. Fake accounts plague Twitter and Facebook, and content designed to misinform readers has become an issue that's drawn the attention of Congress. This difficult and growing problem hasn't stopped a team of researchers from creating an algorithm that can parse news stories, then bicker with real humans in the comments section. Engineers at Beihang University and Microsoft China developed a bot that reads and comments on online news articles. They call their model "DeepCom," short for "deep commenter."