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☆ Asia is entering a deepfake era in an election year — can it handle misinformation campaigns?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Chelsea Ong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The AI-generated deepfake video that cloned his face and voice racked up 4.7 million views on X alone. In Pakistan, a deepfake of former prime minister Imran Khan emerged around the national elections, announcing his party was boycotting them. Deepfakes of politicians are becoming increasingly common, especially with 2024 set up to be the biggest global election year in history. With tech companies adopting different measures across their platforms, a multi-prong approach is needed, she said. watch now"We should not just be relying on the good intentions of these companies," Chesterman added.

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☆ Deepfake porn is a huge problem — here are some of the tools that could help stop it
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"The overall percentage is now lower, but the overall volume of deepfake content which is pornographic has exploded," Ajder said. Deepfake porn of pop superstar Taylor Swift has raised awareness of the issue. Criminal deterrentsThis has had an effect on legislation in the UK, where the Online Safety Act has made it illegal to distribute deepfake porn — but not to create it. AdvertisementThough hard to prosecute, criminalizing deepfake porn is still an important deterrent, in his view. In India, a deepfake porn scandal involving Bollywood actresses spurred the government to fasttrack legislation and pressure the big tech companies to prevent AI-generated content from being spread online.

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☆ OpenAI Is Adding Watermarks to AI Images. It's Not a Perfect Solution.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI says it's adding new digital watermarks to DALL-E 3 images. AdvertisementOpenAI says it's adding new digital watermarks to DALL-E 3 images. In a blog post published Tuesday, the company said watermarks from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, or C2PA, would be added to AI-generated images. Fellow tech company Meta has also signaled its preparing to crack down on the spread of AI-generated content. The company said on Tuesday it planned to attach labels to AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

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☆ Google launches watermarks for AI-generated images
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —In an effort to help prevent the spread of misinformation, Google on Tuesday unveiled an invisible, permanent watermark on images that will identify them as computer-generated. The technology, called SynthID, embeds the watermark directly into images created by Imagen, one of Google’s latest text-to-image generators. In recent months, an AI-generated image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket went viral and AI-generated images of former President Donald Trump getting arrested were widely shared before he was indicted. With the announcement of SynthID, Google joins a growing number of startups and Big Tech companies that are trying to find solutions. The tech company also announced that every AI-generated image created by Google will carry a markup in the original file to “give context” if the image is found on another website or platform.

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☆ How tech companies are working to help detect AI-generated images
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

In recent months, an AI-generated image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket went viral and AI-generated images of former President Donald Trump getting arrested were widely shared, shortly before he was indicted. Some lawmakers are now calling for tech companies to address the problem. Reality Defender and Hive Moderation are working on the former. Other tech companies like Google appear to be pursuing a playbook that pulls a bit from both approaches. “We need everybody to participate.”For now, however, tech companies continue to move forward with pushing more AI tools into the world.

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