Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
…As generative AI platforms explode in popularity, though, people are now also exchanging billions of messages a day with AI chatbots that don’t offer the protection of end-to-end encryption…
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Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…How the US military’s top brass moved from skepticism about the use of AI in war to true believers has a lot to do with a Marine colonel named Drew Cukor…
Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
…This selfie-capture style will feel familiar to anyone who signed up for the Sora app, which OpenAI launched last year as an AI-first social media platform where people can generate…
7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
…typing up everything you want your AI tools to do, Boomer-style? That’s cute. But trust Otter’s Liang: “Voice will become more dominant moving forward,” he tells me. “People hate…
The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants
In December, Black Forest Labs raised funds at a $3.25 billion valuation, after signing deals to power AI image-generation features in Adobe and the graphic design platform Canva. It has…
Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why
The move comes as AI deepfakes continue to proliferate across social media. Any individual stands to have their likeness exploited in the creation of nonconsensual AI-generated material; earlier this month, an…
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
…Generative AI doesn’t just fill the silence—it competes to define what’s seen in the first place. Generative AI Is Getting Harder to Spot Generative AI platforms have been learning…
The New Era of Militia Influencers
…While social media platforms like Facebook purged militia groups from their networks in 2020, pushing them to fringe platforms like Telegram and limiting their ability to organize and recruit new members, that…
The Pope’s Warnings About AI Were AI-Generated, a Detection Tool Claims
…Researchers have found AI slop everywhere online. It undermines journalism and social platforms alike. Text generated at least in part by AI accounts for more than a third of all new websites…
Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious
…and challenged the equating of AI with Xerox as deeply misleading. “If Jonah would like to debate the history and integrity of animation on a public platform at any time, I’m…