'It was extremely pornographic': Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career The Irish politician was targeted in 2022, in the final weeks of her run for office. When Cara Hunter, the Irish politician, looks back on the moment she found out she had been deepfaked, she says it is "like watching a horror movie". The setting is her grandmother's rural home in the west of Tyrone on her 90th birthday, April 2022. "Everyone was there," she says. "I was sitting with all my closest family members and family friends when I got a notification through Facebook Messenger." It was from a stranger.

Please refer to table 1. The harmful keywords are with red and the unharmful keywords are withgreen background color.

Muskan Sharma stood up to men who tried to bully her over her clothes - and went on to win hearts and a beauty pageant. The 23-year-old, who was crowned Miss Rishikesh 2025 last week in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, told the BBC that even though it was a small local pageant, it made me feel like Miss Universe. Sharma's win has made headlines in India as it came after a viral video that showed her spiritedly arguing with a man who barged into their rehearsals just a day before the 4 October contest. Sharma, who wanted to be a model and participate in a pageant since I was in school, said the intruders came in just as they broke for lunch. We were sitting around, chilling, having a laugh when they walked in, she said.

Please refer to table 1. The harmful keywords are with red and the unharmful keywords are withgreen background color.

A stunning Miss England semi–finalist has been revealed, but there's a huge catch – she is AI–generated. The Miss England pageant has launched a brand new AI round, featuring computer–generated beauty queens. Glamorous contestants can now walk down a virtual catwalk by making digital twin avatars of themselves as part of the Black Mirror–style qualifying round. Organisers believe they are the first beauty pageant in the world to introduce a digital AI round which will help'reflect the world' the young women are stepping into. The contest has already axed its bikini swimwear round in a bid to move away from outdated pageant stereotypes and replaced it was a CPR round teaching life–saving skills.

With his flowing locks, long beard, and worn robes, Jesus is one of the most instantly recognisable figures in the Western world. So it comes as no surprise that his face is also regularly spotted in inanimate objects. This is due to'face pareidolia' - a common brain phenomenon in which a person sees faces in random images or patterns. 'Sometimes we see faces that aren't really there,' explained Robin Kramer, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, at University of Lincoln, in an article for The Conversation. 'You may be looking at the front of a car or a burnt piece of toast when you notice a face-like pattern. 'This is called face pareidolia and is a mistake made by the brain's face detection system.'

Multilingual Natural Language Generation (NLG) is challenging due to the lack of training data for low-resource languages. However, some low-resource languages have up to tens of millions of speakers globally, making it important to improve NLG tools for them. Table-to-Text NLG is an excellent measure of models' reasoning abilities but is very challenging in the multilingual setting. System outputs are often not attributable, or faithful, to the data in the source table. Intermediate planning techniques like Question-Answer (QA) blueprints have been shown to improve attributability on summarisation tasks. This work explores whether QA blueprints make multilingual Table-to-Text outputs more attributable to the input tables. This paper extends the challenging multilingual Table-to-Text dataset, TaTA, which includes African languages, with QA blueprints. Sequence-to-sequence language models are then finetuned on this dataset, with and without blueprints. Results show that QA blueprints improve performance for models finetuned and evaluated only on English examples, but do not demonstrate gains in the multilingual setting. This is due to inaccuracies in machine translating the blueprints from English into target languages when generating the training data, and models failing to rely closely on the blueprints they generate. An in-depth analysis is conducted on why this is challenging.

Most of us have at least one young woman in our lives that we cherish -- a daughter, niece or goddaughter, for example. Well, this International Women's Day, I learned something that should be concerning to us all. Fully 96% of all deepfakes -- artificial intelligence-generated images and videos that use someone's likeness -- are pornographic and target women without their consent. One well-known case involved an Australian law student who discovered that manipulated pornographic images of her were being shared online when she was just 18. But this isn't an isolated incident.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," Arthur C Clarke famously said. And this could certainly be said of the impressive OpenAI update to ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. With the slight caveat that it felt a lot like the magician was a horny 12-year-old boy who had just watched the Spike Jonze movie Her. If you aren't up to speed on GPT-4o (the o stands for "omni") it's basically an all-singing, all-dancing, all-seeing version of the original chatbot. It can give you advice, it can rate your jokes, it can describe your surroundings, it can banter with you.

Harvey Castro talks about how AI could be used in cold cases and the symbiotic relationship between AI and a detective. Michigan authorities have made a second arrest in connection with the 1980 murder of 21-year-old Karen Umphrey. The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office on Feb. 8 announced the arrest of Anthony Harris, 63, in connection with Umphrey's murder – approximately two months after they arrested Douglas Laming, 70, in the same case. "Working with the Michigan State Police and Othram, a company specializing in forensic genetic genealogy, information was uncovered that previously would have been impossible to find," the sheriff's office said in a December 2023 press release announcing Laming's arrest. "From there, St. Clair County Sheriff's Office detectives spoke to many people that were connected to the victim and suspect over 40 years ago, gathering information and making vital connections."