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Image generated on AI Don’t you miss the days of speaking to a familiar voice on the phone and feeling safe? And by safe, we mean that you’re absolutely sure they’re not an AI impersonation? Well, a new con where scammers are using artificial intelligence to mimic the voices of loved ones is on the rise, tricking victims into believing their friends or family are in trouble. Read full article View the full article

Image generated on AI Artificial intelligence art models like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are often on the receiving end of allegations of copyright infringement, but rarely do they point the finger at one another like that Spider-Man meme. Tensions are now high between the industry’s greatest players, with Midjourney purportedly suspecting Stability AI of pilfering valuable data. Read full article View the full article

Image generated on AI Got a niggling feeling that your artificially intelligent assistant might know more about you than it lets on? That may not be the program talking, but a worm. With the breakneck advances in technology, researchers are exploring this unsettling scenario and have developed ‘Morris II’, a self-replicating AI malware that targets generative applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini Pro, and the open-source LLaVA large language model. Read full article View the full article

Photo 138951505 © Bernardo Ramonfaur | Dreamstime.com OpenAI has lobbed pretty serious accusations against The New York Times, alleging that the newspaper engaged in “hacking” to gather evidence for a copyright lawsuit. In its filing on Monday, the artificial intelligence firm asserted that the Times went as far as to hire someone to “hack OpenAI’s products” to exploit a bug in ChatGPT, leading to “contrived attacks” that produced abnormal results. Read full article View the full article

Photo 106817408 © Ulf Wittrock | Dreamstime.com Trillion-dollar Apple found itself victim of a scheme by a San Francisco man, which cost the tech giant over US$2.5 million in gift cards and electronics. Despite his fraudulent actions, the culprit was thanked by the company for his “assistance.” Read full article View the full article

Photo 31342968 © Snyfer | Dreamstime.com Gone are the days of shopping on the dark web for a fake card. In a quiet corner of the internet, a website named OnlyFake is churning out counterfeit driver’s licenses and passports with an unsettling level of realism. Read full article View the full article

Photo 36046866 © Featureflash | Dreamstime.com It was Taylor Swift who put the final nail in the coffin and had US officials, at last, seeing Red about unauthorized deepfakes. Read full article View the full article

Image generated on AI Japan, the land of video games and endless innovation, is finally saying sayonara to the floppy disk in its bureaucratic systems. In a much-belated leap towards digitization, the country’s government has announced it will no longer require businesses to use floppy disks and CD-ROMs for submitting certain official documents, favoring more modern and efficient methods of data submission instead. Read full article View the full article

Photo 103366809 © Alexandre Paes Leme Durao | Dreamstime.com Taylor Swift’s next breakup hit needs to be one with artificial intelligence as the villain. After her unconsenting appearances in sham Le Creuset commercials in which her face and voice were edited into videos to swindle Swifties, the superstar has once again found herself on the darker side of digital technology, where she’s become the target of graphic, AI-generated deepfake images. Read full article View the full article

Image generated on AI Nightshade, a new software tool aimed at giving artists and creators peace of mind in the digital age, turned heads when it was announced last October. Designed by a team at the University of Chicago, the app has a unique way of protecting creative works from unauthorized use by generative artificial intelligence models. Now, it’s available for public use. Read full article View the full article

Photo 297340073 © Mohamed Ahmed Soliman | Dreamstime.com Google Chrome is tweaking the fine print for its Incognito mode, a move that comes amid legal scrutiny over user privacy. The tech giant has updated the disclaimer for this feature on the popular web browser, clarifying what it does and doesn’t do in terms of privacy. Read full article View the full article

Image 16276070 © Diego Vito Cervo | Dreamstime.com LG has been in the news lately thanks to all the innovations it unveiled at CES 2024, but its thunder is now awash with a new development it never intended to let out. Read full article View the full article

Left illustration generated on AI, right photo 129934989 © Ken Wolter | Dreamstime.com On eBay, you truly can find anything and everything. Unfortunately for one couple, they found psychological trauma. Read full article View the full article

Photo 269005598 © Peter Kovac | Dreamstime.com OpenAI is making teamwork the dream work with a new subscription plan called ChatGPT Team, tailored to meet the dynamic needs of modern organizations with a unique set of productive artificial intelligence features and a collaborative workspace. Read full article View the full article

Photo 267214643 © Aleksandr Potashev | Dreamstime.com The “Get to Know Me” craze sweeping Instagram, wherein users reveal personal tidbits about themselves, might not only catch the eye of just your friends and followers but also of potential cyber predators, a cybersecurity analyst warns. Read full article View the full article