On Feb. 5’s episode of The View, host Whoopi Goldberg stopped the show from taking a commercial break to give a warning: she says there is an Instagram ad using an AI version of her likeness to sell weight loss drugs without her consent. “There’s a phony weight loss ad …
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For Nicolas Cage, using artificial intelligence to manipulate even one second of a performance is just as dangerous as using it to create an entire work from scratch. While accepting an award for his film Dream Scenario at the Saturn Awards, the actor cautioned against compromising creativity by “letting robots …
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Years of feverish hype around artificial intelligence technology have convinced many that it’s Silicon Valley‘s next speculative bubble — and prompted questions of how long giants like OpenAI can keep burning through billions of dollars in their quest for a true breakthrough AI. Now, a Chinese company has unveiled a …
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Following Paul McCartney’s lead, Elton John called on the U.K. government to impose new rules to protect the copyrights of artists and musicians amidst the rise of artificial intelligence. In a new interview with The Times, John expressed concern that the “wheels are in motion to allow AI companies to …
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Last May, actress Scarlett Johansson released a blistering statement about the release of a new voice for OpenAI‘s ChatGPT 4.0 bot, called “Sky.” To many — including her “closest friends,” Johansson said — the voice was indistinguishable from her own. That would have been unsettling enough, but it so happened …
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Paul McCartney called on the British government to protect artists in the face of a new copyright law that could allow for AI to “rip off” creators. Speaking to the BBC, McCartney warned of the bill that would let tech firms train their AI models on copyrighted works — including …
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President Donald Trump has said he wants the United States to be “the world capital of artificial intelligence and crypto.” On the latter front, he has so far launched and profited from his own meme coins and signed a pro-crypto executive order that did little to move markets. On AI, …
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Even to the supremely cynical, it was striking to see the most recognizable billionaire leaders of Silicon Valley seated together at an event ahead of the second inauguration of President Donald Trump on Monday. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Alphabet (Google‘s parent company) Sundar Pichai, …
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Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA, John Ratcliffe, took a lucrative spin through Washington’s revolving door after his time in the first Trump administration, according to a disclosure with the Senate. In recent years, Ratcliffe has worked as a consultant and advisor for several defense contractors. Two of the …
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The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but it seems Meta largely brushed these aside as they worked to integrate such tools into Facebook and Instagram. As first revealed in a motion …
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