Tag Archives: artificial-intelligence

What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy

In 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman cofounded OpenAI based on a seemingly ethical ethos: to develop AI technology that benefits humanity, rather than systems controlled by big-money corporations. Fast-forward a decade that included a spectacular falling out between Musk and Altman, things look very different. Amid legal battles with …

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YouTube to add tools to detect AI-generated faces and voices

YouTube is building tools to detect AI-generated likenesses of artists like actors and musicians, the company’s vice president of creator products Amjad Hanif wrote in a blog post this week. Hanif also repeatedly expressed that YouTube is “committed” to the responsible development of AI tools. The first of the new …

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Microsoft Bing amps up its ability to stop explicit deepfake images from appearing in Search results

Microsoft Bing now has more power to scrub AI-generated or deepfake images, a form of nonconsensual intimate image (NCII) abuse, from appearing on the search engine, as the company announces a new nonprofit partnership. A collaboration with victim advocacy tool StopNCII, Microsoft is supplementing its user-reporting with a more “victim-centered” …

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Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?

A few months ago, everyone was worried about how AI would impact the 2024 election. It seems like some of the angst has dissipated, but political deepfakes—including pornographic images and video—are still everywhere. Today on the show, WIRED reporters Vittoria Elliott and Will Knight talk about what has changed with …

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OpenAI clarifies: No, "GPT Next" isn't a new model.

No, “GPT Next” is not OpenAI’s next big thing. Earlier this week, Tadao Nagasaki, the lead executive for OpenAI’s Japanese operations, shared a presentation at Japan’s KDDI Summit that seemed to imply a new model call “GPT Next” was imminent. But an OpenAI spokesperson has confirmed to Mashable that the …

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