As AI reshapes social media with predictive algorithms and synthetic content, the iconic like button faces obsolescence, raising concerns about authenticity in a future where real and AI-generated interactions seamlessly blend.
An Australian radio station secretly employed an AI-generated host modeled after a real employee for months, sparking outrage over the lack of transparency and raising concerns about the need for honesty in disclosing AI use to audiences.
Generative AI transforms education with Andrew Ng's AI-assisted data analyst program, raises voice deception concerns due to human inability to detect AI voices, and fuels the quest for AGI as Google DeepMind's efforts were highlighted on 60 Minutes.
Alarming reports reveal AI companies are exploiting actors' digital avatars, created from licensed likenesses, in questionable ads and propaganda, often through broad contract terms granting unrestricted rights over their images and voices.
AI-driven malicious bots now dominate the internet for the first time, accounting for 51% of all web traffic while launching increasingly sophisticated attacks on APIs and user accounts with 40% more account takeovers than last year.
In a massive ad fraud crackdown, Google suspended an unprecedented 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, tripling the previous year's figure, by leveraging AI and policy updates to combat business impersonation, deepfakes, and illegitimate payment details.
Google unveils Veo 2, an AI-powered video generation model that creates high-resolution videos with 'cinematic realism' from text inputs, featuring improved physics understanding and human motion rendering, while also offering Whisk Animate for animating images into short videos using Veo 2.
YouTube throws its weight behind the 'No Fakes Act' to combat unauthorized AI-generated replicas, allowing individuals to request removal while balancing innovation, as it expands its pilot program enabling creators to detect and remove AI copies of themselves.
Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
Meta's new AI model Maverick tops the LM Arena benchmark, but the optimized version tested raises transparency concerns as it differs from the publicly available model, making real-world performance predictions challenging due to undisclosed customizations.