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Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.What to Watch For: Taylor Swift's "Midnights" What to Watch For: Taylor Swift's "Midnights" vinyl salesConcerns about AI porn—or, more commonly “deepfake porn”—are not new. For years, countless women and girls have been subjected to a flood of non-consensual pornographic imagery that is easy to distribute online but quite difficult to get taken down. Most notably, celebrity deepfake porn has been an ongoing source of…

The rapid online spread of deepfake pornographic images of Taylor Swift has renewed calls, including from US politicians, to criminalise the practice, in which artificial intelligence is used to synthesise fake but convincing explicit imagery.The images of the US popstar have been distributed across social media and seen by millions this week. Previously distributed on the app Telegram, one of the images of Swift hosted on X was seen 47m times before it was removed.X said in a statement: “Our teams are actively removing…

Pornhub notified performers this week that the platform is requiring proof of consent from anyone featured in its videos moving forward, according to emails seen by 404 Media Thursday. The policy update is Pornhub’s latest effort to verify that its performers are not being abused or sexually trafficked.Remake this Sci-Fi Film with Peter Capaldi!“On January 23, 2024, in addition to providing approved Co-Performer IDs, we will also require proof of consent, such as Signed Release Forms, when a new Co-Performer is added onto…

Image Source : FREEPIK Deepfake Google and Microsoft's Bing- two popular search engines have reportedly been showing non-consensual deepfake adult videos (porn) at the top of search results along with the tools that advertise the ability to create such kind of content. In instances of non-consensual deepfake pornography, individuals' appearances are manipulated…

This week in trends, the biggest tech event of the year took place in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Show features the latest devices such as a transparent TV, another TV that folds, and this adorable ball-shaped robot from Samsung. But even though they’re not written about much, sex toys are the gadgets tech reporters take a peek at with a little smirk on their faces. Gamifying Physical Therapy With the PalmPlug OneYes, that’s right, CES is as much about TVs and VR headsets as it is about vibrators and “massagers.”…

After months of edging, Montana and North Carolina lawmakers have finished off Pornhub. Users in those states lost access to the adult site on Jan. 1 as new laws require people to verify their age to watch porn. That would have meant uploading a picture of your ID before you watch sorority sisters figure out how to pay the pizza delivery boy. To spare us all, Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo, just removed access to its adult sites for those states altogether.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox Controller“As you may know, your…

Ofcom, the UK’s Office of Communications, has published a draft of age-restriction guidelines for online services that host explicit sexual content. The (not yet finalized) recommendations are a step toward cementing enforcement for the recently passed Online Safety Act, which requires platforms displaying or publishing pornography in the UK to ensure children are “not normally able to encounter” adult content on their sites or apps. It’s the UK’s latest attempt to enforce age verification after it bailed on a similar…

Todd Haynes is, in this writer’s opinion, one of our greatest living filmmakers. Ever since his 1987 film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a moving examination of the singer’s battle with anorexia using Barbie dolls and created while he was at Bard College, his unique voice has enraptured audiences. Safe. Velvet Goldmine. Far From Heaven. Carol. The Velvet Underground. There are too many classics to mention. In his latest film, May December, Haynes has reunited with his muse Julianne Moore for their fifth…

Listen to article(2 minutes)MetaPlatforms has spent months trying to fix child-safety problems on Instagram and Facebook, but it is struggling to prevent its own systems from enabling and even promoting a vast network of pedophile accounts.The social-media giant set up a child-safety task force in June after The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst revealed that Instagram’s algorithms connected a web of accounts devoted to the creation, purchasing and…

Elon Musk’s rebrand of Twitter to “X” faces yet another setback this week after it was blocked in Indonesia for violating local pornography and gambling laws. Musk informed “X” users in a tweet on Sunday that X.com will now redirect users to Twitter.com, but Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Informatics said the domain had previously hosted content that runs against the country’s laws forbidding gambling and porn sites.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetThe ban will continue until the company shares additional…