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Liberal outlet forced to publish editor's note after being duped on fake Trump interview story
Fox News correspondent David Spunt has the latest on questions over whether the former president can hold office again on Special Report. A liberal reporter added fuel to online fire that a conservative news outlet was duped by a former President Trump impersonator, or even artificial intelligence – resulting in an embarrassing editor's note. Last week, Trump called into right-wing channel Real America's Voice for an interview that resulted in online speculation that the outlet had spoken with an impostor. Audio was shaky, and speculation erupted that Trump either had a cold, poor service or something more malicious, such as someone impersonating the 45th president, or modern technology generating the interview with old clips of Trump. Zachary Petrizzo, a politics reporter for the left-wing Daily Beast, took things a step further and reported that Real America's Voice owner Robert Sigg told him that the company would investigate whether the call was some sort of prank.
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Can artificial intelligence predict the weather months out? This company says it can
FOX Business correspondent Lydia Hu has the latest on jobs at risk as AI further develops on "America's Newsroom." Artificial intelligence is being used and introduced across all sectors, aiding the research of oncologists and NASA scientists. Algorithms and machine-learning models, like the newly popular ChatGPT and Google's Bard, have helped students and professionals – although the technology comes with a warning as governments around the world rush to devise regulations and standards. The potential of the industry and AI may appear to be boundless at this phase, with new research and tools publicly announced every week. Just days after the Biden administration called for public input on proposed artificial intelligence policies, tropical cyclones are already a topic of discussion.
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We're Not Ready for the AI Boom. It's Coming Anyway.
It's been a whirlwind few months in the world of large language models (LLMs), better known to most people as chatbots. Since the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in Nov. 2022, we've seen billions upon billions of dollars being poured into the development and implementation of generative AIs such as Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing chatbots--and it's easy to see why. Chatbots like ChatGPT or image generators like DALL-E and Midjourney can feel like magic. With the right prompts, you can get it to do things you wouldn't have imagined a few years ago like craft late night monologue-ready jokes and creating award-winning pieces of "art." It's no surprise that since the public launch of ChatGPT, tech companies have been working to cash in on this modern-day gold rush.
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Dungeons & Dragons Could Prevent the AI Apocalypse--or Kick It Off
Deep in some underground ruins below a drought-stricken village, four brave adventurers found themselves in grave danger. The dungeon belonged to the Order of the Pure, a potentially nefarious cult that may have had something to do with the droughts that have been wreaking havoc in the village of Havenshire. Despite the danger, the stakes were too high to turn back. After all, not only did the fate of the villagers depend on their success, but the town's mayor also promised a small fortune if they succeeded. Eventually, the heroes discovered a wooden chest hidden under a slab of rock in one of the inner chambers of the dungeon.
Meta AI Bot Contributed to Fake Research and Nonsense Before Being Pulled Offline
Meta paused its Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot last week, only two days after it went live to the public. The bot, called Galactica, was trained "on 106 billion tokens of open-access scientific text and data. This includes papers, textbooks, scientific websites, encyclopedias, reference material, knowledge bases, and more," the company told The Daily Beast. It was supposed to help academics and researchers find papers and studies quickly and succinctly but instead was overwhelmed by vast amounts of misinformation that incorrectly cited reputable scientists. Scientists' reputations could be put on the line when they're incorrectly cited in the text and Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington told CNET that Galactica's problem is it was promoted as a way to get facts and information.
Black Artists Sound Off on Why AI Rapper FN Meka Was So Horribly Offensive
Artificial intelligence disrupted the music industry this week when a major recording label signed--and then quickly dropped--a "robot rapper" who casually dropped the N-word in their lyrics. Many Black artists felt the decision to sign the AI rapper in the first place was a racist slap in the face. "Real talk, anybody who was involved with research, development, and signing this artist at Capitol music should have their resignation submitted or their jobs terminated," rock singer Ali Adkins of Ali A and the Agency in Phoenix told The Daily Beast. "Because that just means you don't get 50 fucks about the music. You just care about making a [dollar]."
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An online propaganda campaign used AI-generated headshots to create fake journalists
A network of fictional journalists, analysts, and political consultants has been used to place opinion pieces favorable to certain Gulf states in a range of media outlets, an investigation from The Daily Beast has revealed. At least 19 fake personas were used to author op-eds published in dozens of mainly conservative publications, with AI-generated headshots of would-be authors used to trick targets into believing the writers were real people. It's not the first time AI has been used in this way, though it's unusual to see machine learning tech deployed for online misinformation in the wild. Last year, a report from The Associated Press found a fake profile on LinkedIn, part of a network of likely spies trying to make connections with professional targets, that also used an AI-generated headshot. AI-generated profile pictures created by sites like ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com have some unique advantages when it comes to building fake online personas.
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Facial recognition firm Clearview AI reveals intruders stole its client list
The controversial facial-recognition company that contracts with law-enforcement agencies announced that attackers have gained unauthorized access to its entire client list. The company already informed its customers of the security breach. The startup came under scrutiny after media reported that it had scraped more than 3 billion photos from social media (Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter) for facial recognition purposes. The company has been hit with class-action lawsuits by American citizens, but the company refused any accusation remarking that it was authorized by the First Amendment to scrape public data. "In the notification, which The Daily Beast reviewed, the startup Clearview AI disclosed to its customers that an intruder "gained unauthorized access" to its list of customers, to the number of user accounts those customers had set up, and to the number of searches its customers have conducted."
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Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition startup that's gobbled up more than three billion of our photos by scraping social media sites and any other publicly accessible nook and cranny it can find, has lost its entire list of clients to hackers – including details about its many law enforcement clients. In a notification that The Daily Beast reviewed, the company told its customers that an intruder "gained unauthorized access" to its list of customers, to the number of user accounts they've set up, and to the number of searches they've run. The disclosure also claimed that Clearview's servers hadn't been breached and that there was "no compromise of Clearview's systems or network." The company said that it's patched the unspecified hole that let the intruder in, and that whoever it was didn't manage to get their hands on customers' search histories. Security is Clearview's top priority.
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What to Know About Blizzard, Hong Kong and the Controversy Over Politics in Esports
Though video game culture is seldom a quiet, peaceful place, the uproar over Blizzard Entertainment punishing a popular gamer for showing support for Hong Kong protesters has shaken the whole industry. Ng Wai Chung, a Hearthstone player from Hong Kong who goes by the name "Blitzchung," championed the pro-democracy protests in his hometown that have raged for the past five months during his appearance on a post-game stream. And Blizzard, the developer and publisher of Hearthstone, quickly responded with blanket punishments for everyone involved. It's the latest example of an American company caught between business interests in China and western-world freedom of speech. Outrage over Blizzard's reaction swiftly came from players, industry titans and politicians.
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