Many people canceled their Openai subscriptions, or it is tough to monetize stuff created with generative AI, I guess, so Sama comes with a new plan to use all those GPUs. They are now going after OF models. WTF OpenAI? They are going to allow deepfake? This company is beyond evil 👿
#AI#GenerativeAI#Propaganda#DeepFakes#Disinformation: "AI propaganda is here. But is it persuasive? Recent research published in PNAS Nexus and conducted by Tomz, Josh Goldstein from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, and three Stanford colleagues—master’s student Jason Chao, research scholar Shelby Grossman, and lecturer Alex Stamos—examined the effectiveness of AI-generated propaganda.
#AI#GenerativeAI#SyntheticMedia#DeepFakes: "Until now, all AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make them pretty easy to differentiate from reality. Because they’re so close to the real thing but not quite it, these videos can make people feel annoyed or uneasy or icky—a phenomenon commonly known as the uncanny valley. Synthesia claims its new technology will finally lead us out of the valley.
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation to the sentiment of their scripts—acting more upbeat when talking about happy things, for instance, and more serious or sad when talking about unpleasant things. They also do a better job matching facial expressions—the tiny movements that can speak for us without words.
But this technological progress also signals a much larger social and cultural shift. Increasingly, so much of what we see on our screens is generated (or at least tinkered with) by AI, and it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish what is real from what is not. This threatens our trust in everything we see, which could have very real, very dangerous consequences." https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/1091772/new-generative-ai-avatar-deepfake-synthesia/
How to ID an #AI imposter in video, audio & text."
"If there's any doubt about a person’s video veracity, ask them to turn their head to the right or the left, or look backward. If the person complies but their head disappears on the video screen, end the call immediately.
"#OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work
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Called Voice Generation, the model has been in development since late 2022 and powers the Read Aloud feature in #ChatGPT."
"# The AI-generated voice can read out text prompts on command in the same language as the speaker or in a number of other languages.👈"
"OpenAI told the publication the model will only be available to about 10 developers."
3, Consolidating practitioner knowledge and putting it to work. Perhaps training, exchanging tips and strategies and physical and digital safety techniques. Awareness of relatively more recent threats such as stalkerware, spouseware and “pornographic” #deepfakes. And more.
Time is often at a premium when supporting victims and it's important to act in a coordinated way that doesn’t harm the victim further.
Nicht nur per #Chatkontrolle möchte die #EU "sexuellen Missbrauch von Kindern" bekämpfen. Mit einer neuen #Richtlinie will die Kommission Betroffene stärken und technologischen Entwicklungen gerecht werden – inklusive „Künstlicher Intelligenz“ und #Deepfakes. Der Überblick.
"What made me put my coffee down this morning was 'synthetically generating music', which apparently now falls under 'needs to disclose'.
Them’s fighting words.
Let’s say I fiddle with some knobs on my Eurorack setup (that’s a music synthesizer if you don’t know), and decide to upload it in the background of a video. Am I now making 'altered content?'"
My mother-in-law just called me and asked if she should invest in the "new Bitcoin". She saw a video on FB where a famous Czech actor praised it on a talk show. Clearly a deepfake scam.
And she would definitely do it if she didn't have me. Some time ago I defended ad blockers as tools of online security and this is a real-life example that it's really the case.
Until Google, Meta and others get their act together, their ads should be blocked.
"With AI #deepfakes, a candidate’s image can be smeared, or softened. Voters can be steered toward or away from candidates — or even to avoid the polls altogether. But perhaps the greatest threat to #democracy, experts say, is that a surge of AI deepfakes could erode the public’s trust in what they see and hear."
#DHS will be the 1st in the fed govt to roll out a plan to integrate #AI into a variety of uses, from #crime to helping #disaster survivors.
DHS has seen the opportunities & risks of #ArtificialIntelligence firsthand. It found a #trafficking victim by using AI to create an image of the child 10yrs older. But it has also been tricked into investigations by AI created #DeepFakes.
I watched a video recently:
I'd recommend you watch it.
Here's the link, if you have time, it's not short, but it's detailed about AI and where it is, how it started and where it's headed faster than we can comprehend. We're all being sampled in every TikTok video produced for AI to replicate @jaxwxboss
With the help of #AI, #deepfakes are becoming more convincing and are being used by fraudsters and official campaigns alike.
Unfortunately, regulation is constantly playing catch-up with technology. Better AI regulation, public education on media literacy, and access to trustworthy, independent media are required to combat this issue.
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"A couple of months ago, [Olga] Loiek started a YouTube channel where she talks about mental health and shares her philosophies about life. However, shortly after that, she started receiving messages from followers telling her that they had seen her on Chinese social media. There, she's not Olga Loiek but a Russian woman who speaks Mandarin, loves China and wants to marry a Chinese man."