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Phony AI-generated videos of Hurricane Melissa flood social media sites

AI-generated videos claiming to show Hurricane Melissa have been circulating on social media, causing confusion

The Independent UK

After Martin Luther King Jr Deepfakes, Experts Ask: Who's Safe from AI Resurrection?

After OpenAI paused AI videos of Martin Luther King Jr, experts warn of a new ethical divide: only the famous can control their digital afterlives, leaving others vulnerable to AI "resurrection."

International Business Times UK

‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts

The video app can produce realistic deepfakes of Marx shopping and MLK Jr trolling. Some say using ‘historical figures’ is the company’s way of testing the legal waters

The Guardian - US

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Trump’s team keeps posting AI portraits of him. And we keep clicking

The White House posted: ‘Nowhere in the Constitution does it say we can’t post banger memes’

The Independent UK

'The Age Of Slop Is Inevitable,' Virtual YouTubers Are On The Rise And Drawing In Millions Of Dollars In Revenue

One of YouTube's biggest stars is an animated character with wavy blue hair named Bloo. A virtual YouTuber, or a VTuber, Bloo has more than 2.5 million subscribers and has amassed over 700 million views on his play-through videos of popular games like "Grand Theft Auto" and "Minecraft."

Benzinga

Massive deepfake AI porn site shutting down for good

Mr. Deepfakes, a site that provides users with nonconsensual, AI-generated deepfake pornography, has shut down.

The Independent UK

What the US election tells us about deepfake politics

Australian MPs are weighing how to curtail deepfake election advertisements, but a prominent artificial intelligence expert says a ban might be unnecessary.

AAP

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Beware 'Deepfakes' Of Famous Doctors Promoting Scams: Experts

Social media is being flooded by digitally created "deepfake" videos using the trusted identities of famous doctors to promote dangerous miracle cures for serious health problems, experts warn.

International Business Times

Michael Mosley and Hilary Jones TV doctors ‘deepfaked’ to promote health scams

Deepfaked videos of Hilary Jones selling blood pressure cures surfaced on Facebook earlier this year

The Independent UK

China turns to AI in propaganda mocking the ‘American Dream’

Chinese state media’s A Fractured America series shows how AI is beginning to shape Beijing’s influence campaigns.

Al Jazeera

Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: ‘It’s men telling a powerful woman to get back in her box’

AI-generated porn, fuelled by misogyny, is flooding the internet, with Taylor Swift the latest high-profile casualty. Victims say social media platforms are failing to take it down – will they now start taking it seriously?

The Guardian - UK

Deepfakes are another front in the Israel-Hamas war that risk unleashing even more violence and confusion in the future: ‘This is moving incredibly fast’

Companies are racing to detect videos that have been manipulated with the help of AI—before they cause even more problems in battle zones.

Fortune

Deepfakes could get super advanced (and weird) thanks to these breakthroughs

New models from Google and Meta can turn text into detailed videos with the help of AI, raising questions of more advanced and possibly dangerous future deepfakes.

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