For years now, actors have rung the alarm bells over the AI industry planning to sell their likeness and voices - either with or without their consent - and hence threatening to put them out of work. Beyond a major 2023 strike by Hollywood actors fueled by these concerns, we've already seen actors take matters into their own hands, like when Scarlett Johansson threatened to sue OpenAI over a ChatGPT update that she claims imitated her voice.
The UK will bring into force a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, following widespread concerns over Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images. Speaking to the Commons, Kendall said AI-generated pictures of women and children in states of undress, created without a person's consent, were not "harmless images" but "weapons of abuse".
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Mr Boland told the Irish Independent it was "an extraordinary honour" to meet with the Pope, who he said expressed empathy across the range of topics they discussed. "I met a very human Pope, a very human person, a person who seriously cares about people in disadvantage," he said. "He clearly had empathy with my mandate, which is to bring civil society to the heart of Europe in terms of policy making."
This week: The Trump administration kidnapped the president of Venezuela. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, Emily Peck, and guest Lizzie O'Leary, host of What Next: TBD, discuss Trump's rationale for the attack and the complex economics around Venezuelan oil that come with it. Then, Lizzie breaks down the unsettling trend of AI-generated nudes of real people, including many children, being created by X's chatbot Grok and Elon Musk's lackadaisical response to it.
On Tuesday afternoon, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman driving an SUV in a Minneapolis suburb. Amid a crowd protesting the agency's recent incursion into the Twin Cities, legal observer Renee Nicole Good was stopped in the middle of the street when federal vehicles zoomed toward her, sirens wailing. Agents then hopped out of the vehicles and aggressively approached Good's car on foot.
Elon Musk's Grok has sparked backlash after the AI image generator was used to generate nonconsensual sexualized images of real people, including minors. Over the past week, some X users have used Grok to digitally undress people in photos, with the AI model generating fake images of the subject showing more skin, wearing a bikini, or altering the position of their body.
OpenAI's generative AI platform doesn't have many fans in the creative community, and it seems you can count Trey Stone and Matt Parker among them. The South Park duo largely center this week's episode around the AI video platform, with a plot in which Butters ignites a school-wide scandal after seeking revenge on his ex-girlfriend, Red, by using Sora to generate a video of her farting and getting urinated on by Santa.
Last night I was flicking through a dating app. One guy stood out: Henry VIII, 34, King of England, nonmonogamy. Next thing I know, I am at a candlelit bar sharing a martini with the biggest serial dater of the 16th century. But the night is not over. Next, I am DJing back-to-back with Diana, Princess of Wales. The crowd's ready for the drop, she shouts in my ear, holding a headphone to her tiara.
Earlier this week, Zelda Williams - daughter of Robin Williams - took to Instagram to ask fans of her father to stop sending her AI-generated videos of him. "[P}lease, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop," she wrote, according to the BBC. "It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want."
Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, I'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand. I don't and I won't," she wrote in a post on her Instagram story on Monday. "If you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, I'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
It's becoming increasingly clear that OpenAI put staggeringly little thought into the rollout of Sora 2, its latest text-to-video generating app, a "move fast and break things" approach that has resulted in plenty of drama. Last week, the Sam Altman-led company released the TikTok-style app that churns out endless feeds of low-rent and mind-numbing AI slop. It's an " unholy abomination" that intentionally encourages users to generate deepfakes of others,
In a video on OpenAI's new TikTok-like social media app Sora, a never-ending factory farm of pink pigs are grunting and snorting in their pens - each is equipped with a feeding trough and a smartphone screen, which plays a feed of vertical videos. A terrifyingly realistic Sam Altman stares directly at the camera, as though he's making direct eye contact with the viewer. The AI-generated Altman asks, "Are my piggies enjoying their slop?"
Over the weekend, Donald Trump's Truth Social account posted an AI-generated video purporting to be a Fox News report promoting "medbeds." Unless you spend a lot of time hanging out on far-right conspiracy forums (and in that case, get help), you might not be familiar with these supposed magical beds that can reverse age, cure disease, seal wounds, and regenerate limbs.
"No, it's that the original version featured a gay couple getting married. But in the film's Chinese release, someone digitally altered it - quite possibly using AI - and replaced one of the men with a woman, Bloomberg reports, and the homophobic and censorious implications are irking audiences across the globe. "What's happening outside the film is even more terrifying than what's shown in it," wrote a user on the Chinese social network Weibo, as spotted by The Guardian."
