Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing. With only a 50-50 chance of detecting synthetic media online, users are more vulnerable than ever to being duped. Advances in generative AI technology have made it easier than ever for anyone to manufacture increasingly realistic synthetic media (colloquially known as deepfakes) at faster speeds, larger scales, and with more customization than ever. This in turn has led to synthetic media increasingly being used for harmful purposes, including disinformation campaigns, nonconsensual pornography, financial fraud, child sexual abuse and exploitation, and espionage. As of today, the principal defense to combat deceptive synthetic media depends in large part on the human observer's perceptual detection capabilities--their ability to visually or auditorily identify AI-generated content when they encounter it. Yet the growing realism of synthetic media impedes this ability, heightening people's vulnerability to weaponized synthetic content. Moreover, people overestimate how capable they are at identifying synthetic media, further exacerbating the problem. As synthetic media continues to advance in sophistication, so too does the threat posed by its growing weaponization, from financial fraud to the production of nonconsensual intimate materials of adults and children.

On this episode of, we discuss OpenAI's new teen safety features, the right's retaliation against critics of the late Charlie Kirk, and more of the week's biggest stories. Charlie Kirk (R) shaking hands with US President Donald Trump as he speaks on stage at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. In today's episode, our host Zöe Schiffer is joined by WIRED's senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan to run through five of the best stories we published this week--from OpenAI implementing teen safety features to how human design is the new astrology. Zöe and Manisha also discuss the reverberating reactions to Charlie Kirk's death and why the work of many creators, from comic book artists to late night show hosts, is getting cancelled.

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Art knockoffs generate between $4 and $6 billion annually. Morrisseau's estate is working with Acrylic Robotics to combat art forgeries. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A new weapon in the fight against fine art forgeries may, ironically enough, be a robot "painter" capable of composing nearly indistinguishable copies of renowned works. Canadian startup Acrylic Robotics is currently working with the estate of the late Canadian Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau to create highly sophisticated replicas of his catalog using an AI-trained robotic painting system.

Is reading always better for your brain than listening to audiobooks? Reading books and listening to audiobooks tap into different elements of cognition, each with their own benefits. So which one should you choose, and when? But when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was getting the same cognitive benefits from an audiobook as she would from reading, my instinct was to think "she's enjoying a book, the format doesn't matter". However, when I dug into the science, I found the medium does shape the mind in subtly different but meaningful ways.

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How is Russia replenishing its military? What is a'coalition of the willing'? How China forgot promises and'debts' to Ukraine How are Europe, the US pulling apart on Ukraine? A Ukrainian drone attack killed three people and injured 16 near the town of Foros on the Crimean Peninsula, the Russian-appointed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, wrote in a post on Telegram. Russia's Ministry of Defence said the attack occurred "using strike drones equipped with high-explosive payloads", in a resort area "where there are no military targets whatsoever".

ABSTRACT The rapid spread of misinformation on social media underscores the need for scalable fact-checking tools. A key step is claim detection, which identifies statements that can be objectively verified. Prior approaches often rely on linguistic cues or claim check-worthiness, but these struggle with vague political discourse and diverse formats such as tweets. We present RA VE (Retrieval and Scoring A ware V erifiable Claim Detection), a framework that combines evidence retrieval with structured signals of relevance and source credibility. Experiments on CT22-test and PoliClaim-test show that RA VE consistently outperforms text-only and retrieval-based baselines in both accuracy and F1.