WIRED
Welcome to Botnet, Where Everyone’s an Influencer
3 min · · A social network populated entirely by adoring bots aims to mimic the experience of being a celebrity online—trolls not included. · Shared by 168, including Thomas Power, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Luca Like, Neeraj K Agrawal, Chris Messina, andrew chen, Stephanie A Kowalski, Gregory B. Sadler 🦉 (no blue check, just owl), rogerverhoeven, Jansnet, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Sprout Social, Liliane Ferrari ™
MIT Technology Review
A new tool uses AI to spot text written by AI
1 min · · AI algorithms can generate text convincing enough to fool the average human—potentially providing a way to mass-produce fake news, bogus reviews, and phony social accounts. · Shared by 144, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Ronald van Loon, Leni "Lee" Krsova ⚔️, Builtvisible, Chris Messina, Jose Luis Calvo, Mike Tamir, PhD, Barnaby Skinner, Josep M. Ganyet, Hans Bickhofe, Stephan Woodtli, Amber Mac, Tiffany Shlain, Ward Plunet, Aamir Raz, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Gil Press, Yvette Dubel, Jonathan Kogan, Vikram Dutt
TNW
Fraudsters deepfake CEO's voice to trick manager into transferring $243,000
2 min · · Criminals use commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate the boss of a German company to steal funds. · Shared by 125, including Josh Olszewicz, Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Matthias Lampe, Aamir Raz, Chris Messina, Ste Davies, Chris Skinner, Ser Jeff Garzik, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Peter Todd/mempoolfullrbf=1, Michael Gisiger, Bruno Skvorc 🦞 | bruno.eth, Brian Roemmele, Andy Beal, TNW Top Stories, Carl Morris, Courtney Bolton ★, Jose Luis Calvo, David Cohn, Josep M. Ganyet
Pew Research Fact Tank
Few Americans are confident in tech companies to prevent misuse of their platforms in the 2020 election
3 min · · 74% of Americans express little or no confidence in tech companies to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 election. · Shared by 71, including Pew Research Internet, Michael Fauscette, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Katja Evertz, luis antónio santos, Chris Messina, Andy Beal, Jonathan Kogan, Adrienne Fichter, Thomas Power
VICE
We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign
6 min · · AI-generated fake videos that are notoriously rampant in porn are now infiltrating politics. · Shared by 62, including Mike Tamir, PhD, Gengo 🦁, Anthony Hamelle, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Messina, Amber Mac, Dr. Alec Couros, Delip Rao e/σ
The New York Times
There Is a Racial Divide in Speech-Recognition Systems, Researchers Say
6 min · · Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. Whites fared much better. · Shared by 48, including Craig Brown, PhD, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Chris Messina, luis antónio santos, Rick King, Christopher Mims 🤌, Andreas Staub, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Antonio Vieira Santos, Delip Rao e/σ, Cade Metz
Google AI
Contributing Data to Deepfake Detection Research
2 min · · Posted by Nick Dufour, Google Research and Andrew Gully, Jigsaw Deep learning has given rise to technologies that would have been thought ... · Shared by 42, including Mathew Ingram, AJ Ghergich, Chris Messina, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Bjorn Larsen, Carla Gentry 🎶, Johannes Lenz, Vikram Dutt
anthropic.com
Anthropic
· Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. · Shared by 40, including Kelsey Piper, Future of Life Institute, Chris Messina, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Matt Shaffer, Brian T. Edwards, Philippe Gauvin, Hilary Mason, 瑞拿頭
The Washington Post
‘Bots’ are becoming more humanlike. What does that mean for 2020?
· Some Twitter users accused “bots” of promoting hashtags after the Democratic presidential debates. Here’s what you need to know about how online manipulation is evolving. · Shared by 36, including Thomas Power, Chris Messina, Jonathan Kogan, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Faik Ersoy, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Stephan Woodtli
BBC News (World)
Glitch reveals young vlogger as middle-aged
3 min · · Chinese vlogger caught using filter to make herself look younger upsets fans. · Shared by 33, including Kevin Kelly, mrbrown, Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️, Chris Messina, Korben
Twitter
Building rules in public: Our approach to synthetic & manipulated media
3 min · · Building rules in public: Our new approach to synthetic and manipulated media · Shared by 31, including Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, Arie Goldshlager
tech.fb.com
Creativity for all: Facebook’s Spark AR now lets anyone build and share effects on Instagram
3 min · · Starting today, anyone can create and publish their own Spark AR effects on Instagram. We’re also introducing the new Effect Gallery, which i · Shared by 31, including Chris Messina, Daniel Jörg, Resh Sidhu, Matt Navarra, CGTrader
about.fb.com
Enforcing Against Manipulated Media
3 min · · People share millions of photos and videos on Facebook every day, creating some of the most compelling and creative visuals on our platform. Some of that content is manipulated, often for benign… · Shared by 30, including Chris Messina, Jon Loomer, Mike Butcher
MIT Technology Review
The biggest threat of deepfakes isn’t the deepfakes themselves
4 min · · The mere idea of AI-synthesized media is already making people stop believing that real things are real. · Shared by 28, including John Hagel, Chris Messina, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
VentureBeat
Amazon launches Neural Text-To-Speech and newscaster style on AWS Polly
2 min · · Amazon has broadly launched Neural Text-To-Speech and newscaster voices on AWS Polly in select Amazon Web Services regions. · Shared by 27, including Niklaus Gerber, Joey Marburger ⚡️, Chris Messina
cohere.ai
Home | Cohere
· One API. Billions of parameters. Unlimited uses. The Cohere API provides access to models that read hundreds of millions of web pages and learn to understand the meaning, sentiment, and intent of the… · Shared by 24, including Chris Messina, 瑞拿頭, Galen King, Vincent Terrasi