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Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference is in full swing, but it’s CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote address that has everyone waiting with bated breath. He’s expected to make major announcements about Nvidia’s future AI developments and how Nvidia GPUs will power them. Following the launch and subsequent explosion in coverage of the ChatGPT chatbot, Nvidia is looking to recapture the conversation around AI and show why its developments, more so than its competition, are what we should be excited about. But how do you watch…

Do you need to replace your old monitor but you’re on a tight budget? Then you shouldn’t miss Dell’s offer for the Dell SE2222H monitor, which you can currently get for a very cheap $80. You’ll pocket $50 in savings from its original price of $130 if you’re able to take advantage of the discount, which may go away at any moment like most monitor deals that are this affordable. Why you should buy the Dell SE2222H monitor The Dell SE2222H monitor is the perfect partner to a new PC that you got from desktop computer…

If there’s one thing aging nu-metal rap-rockers Limp Bizkit are not, it’s subtle. Naturally, that applies to their recent foray into deep fake videos as well. Last month, the band responsible “Nookie,” “Break Stuff,” and the popularization of Dickies shorts released a video for their song song “Out of Style,” where each of the band members’ faces are replaced with a powerful world leader. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kin Jung Un, Joe Biden, and Volodymyr Zelensky are, and a hot-dog-wielding Tom Cruise all featured in the…

As the role of artificial intelligence appears to continue growing in our daily lives, it’s taking people’s likeness along with it. This week, hundreds of deepfaked videos featuring faces that looked exactly like Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson ran across Facebook and Instagram as part of an apparent advertising campaign for an AI deepfake app called FaceMega. NBC News broke the story, and reported that 230 videos were run across Facebook and Instagram. 127 of the ad videos featured Watson while 74 videos featured…

Maybe we’ll get more Big-era Hanks, or perhaps Hanks from his first real “hit”, the 1982 anti-D&D flick Mazes and Monsters.Photo: Dia Dipasupil (Getty Images)Not to be left behind in any trend-chasing, Hollywood is scrambling after the promise of artificial intelligence. In this case, one movie is banking its premise on the promise of AI-driven deepfake tech.In a Tuesday release, the AI-centric VFX company Metaphysic said it was partnering with production company Miramax for the upcoming movie Here, directed by Robert…

AI voice synthesis is getting more and more sophisticated, which also means it’s more open to abuse.Graphic: ArtemisDiana (Shutterstock)Who could have possibly seen this coming? AI image generators have been used to create non-consensual pornography of celebrities, but why would that same user base dare abuse a free AI text-to-speech deepfake voice generator? UK-based ElevenLabs first touted its Prime Voice AI earlier this month, but just a few weeks later it may need to rethink its entire model after users reported a…

Meta appears to have suspended an Instagram parody account attempting to post this Zuckerberg deep fake just weeks after Zuckerberg himself expounded on the importance of making that same type of content available on his platforms. The deep fake, which shows a digitally altered Zuckerberg gloating over Congress’ self-inflicted struggles to pass tech-focused antitrust reform, was suspended the very same day Congress all but killed those reforms by not including the measures in a morethan 4,000 page omnibus bill. Demand…

A 3D facial recognition program is demonstrated during the Biometrics 2004 exhibition and conference October 14, 2004 in London Photo: an Waldie (Getty Images)In a year marked by seemingly weekly advances in AI capabilities, government authorities and lawmakers around the world have struggled to keep up. Starting next month, however, Chinese regulators will put in place new rules restricting one of AI’s most nerve-racking use cases: deepfakes.On January 10, according to The South China Morning Post, China’s Cyberspace…

“Instruction for participate,” seems legit.Screenshot: GizmodoA deepfake video posted to Twitter over the weekend shows the face and approximate voice of disgraced FTX founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried—offering assurance in the form of a crypto giveaway (i.e. a phishing scam). “Hello everyone. As you know our eftex exchange is going bankrupt. But I hasten to inform all users that you should not panic. As compensation for the loss, we have prepared a giveaway for you, in which you can double your cryptocurrency.…

A video of Vladimir Putin that has been deepfaked with Donald Trump’s likeness.Deepfake technology—where someone’s likeness is digitally placed over someone else’s—has some very spooky implications. Intel says that itsnew deepfake detection tech, called FakeCatcher, is able to clock a deepfake video 96% of the time.Intel announced that FakeCatcher can operate in real-time to detect deepfake videos, further claiming that it is the first of its kind in the world. FakeCatcher apparently has a 96% success rate at detecting…