“It’s unclear where these images came from. They appear more realistic than standard AI-generated images — enough so to fool Perry’s own mother — and they fit into a wider growing trend of image generation…The AI-generated images of these celebrities, while benign, show how generative AI tools are now a part of every news event.”

“There are a lot of men in India who wear a turban, but the ratio is not nearly as high as Meta AI’s tool would suggest. In India’s capital, Delhi, you would see one in 15 men wearing a turban at most. However, in images generates Meta’s AI, roughly 3-4 out of 5 images representing Indian males would be wearing a turban.”

“The lawsuit said the divestiture ‘is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally. … There is no question: the Act (law) will force a shutdown of TikTok by January 19, 2025, silencing the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate in ways that cannot be replicated elsewhere.'”

“‘It’s stunning,’ [Invisible Institute founder Jamie Kalven], 75, said in an interview. ‘I just stepped out of our office, which is in a complete uproar of excitement.'”

“OpenAI said its new detector could correctly identify 98.8 percent of images created by DALL-E 3, the latest version of its image generator…Because this kind of deepfake detector is driven by probabilities, it can never be perfect. So [OpenAI] is joining the steering committee for the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, or C2PA, an effort to develop credentials for digital content.”

“Romney noted that while ‘some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok,’ if ‘you look at the posting on TikTok and the number of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, its overwhelmingly so on TikTok…So I know that’s of real interest, and the president will have a chance to take action in that regard.'”

“Dotdash Meredith’s parent firm, IAC, was pushing to create an industry coalition to help unite big publishers in their fight for copyright protections from AI firms, but that effort ultimately collapsed due to conflicting business incentives within the industry.”

“In a meeting with the publication’s leadership Tuesday morning, Nicholas Carlson announced that he would leave his position as the top editor of the business-focused digital news outlet, and become an editor-at-large focused on longer-term projects…he also clarified that the move was not motivated by recent criticism of Business Insider’s recent reporting on academic writings by Neri Oxman, which prompted lengthy online screeds and legal threats from her husband, billionaire businessman Bill Ackman.”