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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…

Adidas AG’s ADDYY -0.51% chief executive and senior leaders in Germany discussed as far back as four years ago the risk of continuing a relationship with Kanye West that they feared could blow up at any moment, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.A 2018 presentation to members of the Adidas executive board, a group that included CEO Kasper Rorsted and the head of human resources,…

The sportswear giant Adidas is to launch an independent investigation into allegations of misconduct made this week against the US rapper and fashion designer Kanye West, including that he showed pornography to staff at company meetings.The claims by unidentified staff at Yeezy and Adidas, which surfaced in a Rolling Stone article on Tuesday, included allegations that the musician, who has changed his name to Ye, showed an intimate picture of his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, in job interviews, and that his “problematic…

“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…

"You can have adult content, you can have cooking content, that really depends on what creators are willing to share," said Amrapali Gan. A year is a long time in the history of OnlyFans, an online platform where people sell erotic photos and videos to their subscribers.Last August, the site tried to ban explicit sexual content in advance of a rumoured stock market flotation, only to climb down after an outcry from its army of creators and users. On Wednesday, the firm's boss seemed keen to move beyond that discussion…

Since 2018, Tumblr’s anti-adult-content community guidelines have stifled artists and sex workers on the platform. A new change will bring nudity back to the site, but not porn.Image: The Met Collection / GizmodoTumblr is, once again, baring it all. The platform is letting nudity (with some key exceptions) back on the feed. Community guidelines updated on Tuesday read that “Nudity and other kinds of adult material are generally welcome. We’re not here to judge your art, we just ask that you add a Community Label to your…

Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes and PBS Kids have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions appeared alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters. Brands ranging from Walt Disney Co, NBCUniversal and Coca-Cola Co to a children's hospital were among more than 30 advertisers that appeared on the profile pages of Twitter accounts peddling links to the exploitative material, according to a Reuters review of…

Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda, and chemicals company Ecolab have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions are appearing alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters.Ads for at least 30 brands, ranging from Walt Disney, Comcast's NBCUniversal and Coca-Cola to a children's hospital, have appeared on the profile pages of Twitter accounts that peddle links to the exploitative material, according to a Reuters review of…

Image generators like Stable Diffusion can create what look like real photographs or hand-crafted illustrations depicting just about anything a person can imagine. This is possible thanks to algorithms that learn to associate the properties of a vast collection of images taken from the web and image databases with their associated text labels. Algorithms learn to render new images to match a text prompt in a process that involves adding and removing random noise to an image.Because tools like Stable Diffusion use images…