The official statement by the FBI: Malicious Actors Manipulating Photos and Videos to Create Explicit Content and Sextortion Scheme The Hill – FBI warns of ‘deepfakes’ in sextortion schemes I got banned from Midjourney AI for generating realistic images of politicians cheating on their wives for a series called “AI will revolutionize the blackmail industry” […]
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Communities are creating fake events in history. Some interesting sources: Vice – People Are Creating Records of Fake Historical Events Using AI Reddit (u/kawaiilovecraft6) – The infamous Blue Plague Incident (70s, USSR) Follow Fake History Hunter @ Twitter “I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar,
In April 2023, news evaluation group NewsGuard published a report analyzing dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots. This report raises questions about how Generative AI could potentially amplify established fraud techniques. The 49 websites analyzed are incredibly diverse. Some disguise themselves as breaking news outlets with generic names like News Live 79 and
The production and use of hardware require a lot of energy and are accompanied by substantial pollution. The global ICT sector currently contributes an estimated three to six percent to global emissions, a figure comparable to the emissions of the global cement industry. However, recent studies predict a troubling trend. If the current growth line
Can ChatGPT be perceived as more empathic than doctors? –> YES!.. I stumbled upon a very interesting study some weeks ago, published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). The study was conducted using questions from Reddit’s r/AskDocs. A total of 195 interactions from October 2022 were randomly selected where a verified physician had
Originally published at Dutch newspaper Het Parool: https://www.parool.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-hoe-gevaarlijk-is-een-chatbot-als-digitaal-vriendje~b7d55bd4/ The idea that artificial intelligence could someday destroy our world is frightening, but it distracts from a much more pressing issue, argue Thijs Pepping, Menno van Doorn, and Sander Duivestein: the increasing popularity of chatbots like MyAI from Snapchat. ‘The intentions behind MyAI are not wholesome.’ Thijs
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“We take the robot out of the human.” That is the promise of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) consultants and developers. Now that technology giants such as Microsoft and Meta are rapidly making substantial investments in making their products and services smarter, this is anything but an empty promise. The era in which artificial intelligence is
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“We are in a period of unprecedented economic, social and technological change. With all the uncertainty in the world, one thing is certain: organizations in every industry are turning to you and your technology skills to do more with less.” This is how Microsoft CEO Nadella opened his annual Ignite meeting. Despite all the commercial
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Nice long read in Het Parool by Roelf Jan Duin. With a few quotes from myself. Of course I talked about Real Fake; crazy to see how rapidly everything we described is turning in reality… Tech expert Pepping: “Soon you will no longer be able to believe your eyes and your ears. You can already
Originally published in Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. By: Thijs Pepping, trend analyst at the Research Institute for New Technology (VINT) of IT service provider Sogeti Summarizing a book. Or writing a paper about new consumer behavior. These are examples of work that the student no longer has to plod on himself. With the arrival of
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