When called down to the principal's office last October, high school student Francesca Mani learned that someone had taken online pictures of her and used artificial intelligence to generate fake nudes that were then shared on social media.
Misinformation campaigns driven by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming increasingly sophisticated and pose a significant threat in today's digital landscape. These campaigns involve the use of AI algorithms and techniques to spread false information, manipulate public opinion, and create confusion among individuals. The need for nations to proactively identify and comprehend these tactics has never been more crucial.
3 scary breakthroughs AI will make in 2024https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/3-scary-breakthroughs-ai-will-make-in-2024 #AI#QStar#Hyperrealistic#Deepfakes#KillerRobots
“#Influencers themselves have a lot of negative associations related to being fake or superficial, which makes people feel less concerned about the concept of that being replaced with #AI or #VirtualInfluencers,” said Rebecca McGrath, associate director for media and technology at Mintel. #DeepFakes#AIGenerated
Kunst als Waffe gegen Extremismus. Einblicke in das Zentrum für politische Schönheit auf dem Chaos Communication Congress #37c3 in Hamburg und ein neues Versprechen von Olaf Scholz zum Verstoß gegen AGBs auf Social Media-Plattformen:
▶️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GChN6HDvKSw #CCC#BuReg#Deepfakes
#SouthKorea's National Assembly passed a bill to ban #deepfakes in #election campaigns, with violators facing up to seven years in prison or hefty fines.
#FakeNews#Fakes#Misinformation#Myths#Bots#Deepfakes: "You say that the Internet flooded the intellectual commons “with agendas that were not constrained by a conventional understanding of reality.” Has there ever been “a conventional understanding of reality” that was rock-solid, objective truth?
Scheirer: I think what I was trying to say in that passage is that there’s this thinking, especially in communities obsessed with rational thinking, like scientists and businesspeople: They believe that there is something at least resembling an objective truth. And that’s usually a narrative that is conforming to whatever they’re trying to do. But the Internet presents you with so many different alternatives. It overturns that quite quickly. Does that make sense? If you go down to, say, Wall Street, you’ll have a bunch of serious people who will tell you “The markets work this way.” You know, that’s the way it is. Of course, there’s more to life than just those markets.
Yeah. They will give you their word that ‘This is how the game goes.’ Yet, when 2008 happens, they’ll wring their hands and say nothing’s guaranteed.
Scheirer: Exactly. But that goes back to this vision of the Internet as being an information superhighway, where there’s just this one set of facts that’ll exist in this database, and the world will be able to access it, and that’s the way it is. And of course, that’s not actually the way it is."
#Bangladesh#AI#Deepfakes#GenerativeAI#Disinformation#Elections: "The South Asian nation of 170mn people is heading to the polls in early January, a contest marked by a bitter and polarising power struggle between incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her rivals, the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party.
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh have in recent months promoted AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools offered by artificial intelligence start-ups.
In one purported news clip, an AI-generated anchor lambasts the US, a country that Sheikh Hasina’s government has criticised ahead of the polls. A separate deepfake video, which has since been removed, showed an opposition leader equivocating over support for Gazans, a potentially ruinous position in the Muslim-majority country with strong public sympathy for Palestinians."
A team of meme-makers led by a little-known podcaster & life coach, has spent much of the year flooding social media w/pro-Trump posts riddled w/ #sexist & #racist tropes, lionizing Trump & brutally denigrating his opponents.
#SocialMedia#TikTok#Deepfakes#Disinformation#Hamas#Israel#Propaganda: "Bloomberg reviewed dozens of deepfake videos on TikTok portraying victims of tragedy in various languages, racking up sometimes millions of views and thousands of comments. Most recent are the Israel-Hamas war victim videos, which appear designed to generate both sympathy and virality, though their creators are often anonymous. AI researchers call these “digital resurrections.” They follow a similar pattern: A tragic death is covered by the news, and within days or even hours, users post videos of that person’s likeness talking about how they passed. The format for the trend usually includes an introduction from the perspective of that person, and a deepfaked image of them on the screen telling the story of how they died." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-04/tiktok-videos-reanimating-hamas-victims-spur-deepfake-challenge
Durch sogenannte #Deepfakes wird es immer einfacher, Bilder, Videos und Audioaufnahmen zu manipulieren. Viel wird aktuell über die Regulierung von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) diskutiert.
Was meint ihr? Braucht es klare Regeln wie eine Kennzeichnung von #KI-generierten Bildern? Oder braucht es mehr #Medienkompetenz?
Wie ihr Deepfakes erkennen könnt und welche Gefahren von ihnen ausgehen, erfahrt ihr unter https://www.bpb.de/542670.
Angela Merkel singt, der Papst tanzt. Auch wenn witzige KI-generierte Bilder für tausende Likes im Internet sorgen und hundertfach geteilt werden, können Bilder auch Politik machen - bspw. mit Deepfakes aus Gaza. 🖼️
Die Hochschule Stralsund möchte nun dem entgegenwirken und aufklären. Das medienpädagogische Projekt iKIDO soll Kinder und Jugendliche für die Grenzen und Gefahren von KI sensibilisieren. 🤖
Beware of cheap fakes! Recent headlines focus on AI-driven #deepfakes, but low-tech #disinformation, like mislabeled videos from other wars, are far more common.
#a16z#VCs#AI#GenerativeAI#GeneratedImages#Deepfakes: "Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook, Lyft, and other tech giants, has invested in Civitai, a giant platform for sharing AI models that enables and profits from the creation of AI generated nonconsensual sexual images of real people. That includes launching a feature where people can list “bounties” for others to create AI models of specific targets.
Civitai said that it raised $5.1 million in a seed funding round led by a16z.
A16z’s official website, which includes a jobs board with open positions at companies in its portfolio, currently lists five jobs at Civitai. According to a16z’s site, these jobs were posted more than 30 days ago."
#AI#GenerativeAI#GeneratedImages#DeepFakes: "Civitai, an online marketplace for sharing AI models that enables the creation of nonconsensual sexual images of real people, has introduced a new feature that allows users to post “bounties.” These bounties allow users to ask the Civitai community to create AI models that generate images of specific styles, compositions, or specific real people, and reward the best AI model that does so with a virtual currency users can buy with real money.
As is common on the site, many of the bounties posted to Civitai since the feature was launched are focused on recreating the likeness of celebrities and social media influencers, almost exclusively women. But 404 Media has seen at least one bounty for a private person who has no significant public online presence.
“I am very afraid of what this can become, for years I have been facing problems with the misuse of my image and this has certainly never crossed my mind,” Michele Alves, an Instagram influencer who has a bounty on Civitai, told 404 Media. “I don't know what measures I could take, since the internet seems like a place out of control. The only thing I think about is how it could affect me mentally because this is beyond hurtful.”"