Manipulation

The tool, called PhotoGuard, works like a protective shield by altering photos in tiny ways that are invisible to the human eye but prevent them from being manipulated. If someone tries to use an editing app based on a generative AI model such as Stable Diffusion to manipulate an image that has been “immunized” by PhotoGuard, the result will look unrealistic or warped.  Right now, “anyone can take our image, modify it however they want, put us in very bad-looking situations, and blackmail us,” says Hadi Salman, a PhD…

Screenshot by Artie Beaty/ZDNETAs AI image creation and editing becomes more prevalent, a new digital privacy concern has arisen -- the unauthorized AI editing of someone's artwork or picture. To date, there's nothing to stop someone from taking a picture online, uploading it to an AI program, and manipulating it for all sorts of purposes.But a new technique from a team at MIT could change that. Also: The best AI image generators to trySimply called "PhotoGuard," the method involves a deep understanding of the…

On first reading, New Zealand author Catherine Chidgey’s new novel has little in common with her previous one, the Women’s prize-longlisted Remote Sympathy. That book, set mainly in Buchenwald concentration camp during 1943-44, focused on the unlikely affinity between a Jewish doctor prisoner and his patient, the terminally ill wife of one of the camp’s Nazi administrators. It is worlds away from Pet, set in a Catholic primary school in a Wellington suburb in the 1980s, and a care home in Auckland 30 years later. And yet…

Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that the unverified accounts and new unverified accounts are limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts per day respectively. That comes after Twitter had announced that it will require users to have an account on the social media platform to view…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), America’s top securities regulator, on Monday, accused Binance of mishandling customer funds and misrepresenting facts about its operations to investors as well as American regulators. Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange and dominates the market with a trading volume totaling $5.29 trillion in 2022. The SEC has charged the company along with its founder Changpeng Zhao with violation of numerous securities laws. It is understood that this lawsuit could potentially…

Open AI is a leading organization in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, they have provided the developers with state-of-the-art innovations like ChatGPT, WhisperAI, DALL-E, and many more to work on the vast unstructured data available. For text manipulation, OpenAI has compiled a Completions model which helps you to generate new text data, fill masks in strings, carry conversations, translate, and summarize. The completion module uses the power of GPT-3 to perform these tasks and give out…

Researchers have successfully stimulated hair growth in mice using microRNA to genetically manipulate hair follicle stem cells, meaning that balding pate may one day be sporting a mane of luscious locks.Like other parts of our body, when we age, our hair follicle stem cells stiffen, making it harder for them to produce hair. Over time, almost everyone experiences some degree of hair loss. All sexes lose their hair for a variety of reasons, including hereditary traits, hormonal and thyroid disorders and nutritional…

When electrons (spheres) in the surface of a topological insulator are accelerated by strong light waves according to their band structure (lowest cone), Floquet-Bloch replicas (higher cones) of the original band structure are formed. Videos of the band structure with sub-cycle time resolution reveal for the first time the formation dynamics (cones in the background). Credit: Brad Baxley (parttowhole.com)New material properties, at lightning speed and on demand – this vision moves a step closer thanks to recent findings…

Amid growing chatter about artificial intelligence, Twitter owner Elon Musk on Saturday announced that the micro-blogging platform will use AI to detect "manipulation of public opinion"."In the months ahead, we will use AI to detect & highlight manipulation of public opinion on this platform. Let’s see what the psy ops cat drags in …" Musk tweeted.In the months ahead, we will use AI to detect & highlight manipulation of public opinion on this platform.Let’s s… https://t.co/vVelZ09xTN— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)…

Regulators are scrutinizing whether companies are manipulating financial results to meet Wall Street targets, as a profit-squeeze amps up pressure on executives to “make the numbers.”This earnings season has been marked by falls in both reported profits and expectations of future returns. With more than 99% of S&P 500 companies having reported, fourth-quarter earnings are down 4.65%, according to FactSet. That is the first year-over-year decline since fall 2020, at the height of the pandemic. Tough economic times have…