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One Tech Tip: Fed up with AI slop? A few platforms will let you dial it down

AI-generated content is flooding digital platforms, but some are taking steps to help users manage it

The Independent UK

Lawmakers and victims criticize the choice to limit Grok's AI image generation to paid users as 'insulting' and 'not effective'

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

Fortune

Elon Musk ex Ashley St. Clair says she's considering legal action after xAI produced fake sexualized images of her

Women who found explicit images of themselves online generated by the Grok AI chatbot say they feel violated and dehumanized.

Fortune

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How Denmark is trying to protect citizens from AI deepfakes

Denmark is seeking to protect ordinary Danes, as well as performers and artists who might have their appearance or voice imitated and shared without their permission.

Euronews

Denmark eyes new law to protect citizens from AI deepfakes

Deepfakes have become not only easier to make worldwide but also look or sound exponentially more realistic thanks to technological advances and the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence tools

The Independent UK

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

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‘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

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

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

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Al Jazeera

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.

The Guardian - UK

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?

Fortune

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.

Inverse

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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