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The AI used by the UK government to review people's passport photos contains built-in biases against people with darker skin. The gov. deployed it anyway.

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The UK Knew Its Passport AI Was Racist — and Used It Anyway

By Dan Robitzski

California has banned the creation of political deepfakes — clips manipulated to make it look like a politician said or did something they didn't.

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New Law Makes It Illegal to Distribute Political Deepfakes

By Kristin Houser

Porn deepfakes featuring actresses and musicians from the entertainment industry account for the vast majority of the manipulated videos currently online.

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Study: Porn Accounts for 96 Percent of Deepfakes Online

By Kristin Houser

An experimental TikTok feature available in China lets users highlight someone's face and search for any other time it appears in a post.

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TikTok Tracks Users With Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

After a week away from Facebook, undergrads felt better and made healthier choices. But they were also eager to sign on again.

A Week Break From Facebook Can Make You Less Depressed

By Dan Robitzski

Contractors hired to collect face scans for Google specifically targeted homeless black people and lied to them about the nature of the collection.

Google Contractors Tricked Homeless Black People Into Face Scans

By Kristin Houser

A new video uses deepfake tech to turn recorded footage of New York City into a bizarre, stylistic Picasso-like landscape.

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Watch a Deepfake Turn Footage of New York Into a Cubist Painting

By Dan Robitzski

Have you ever wanted to buy a body pillow of your very own AI-generated waifu? No? Well, now you can anyway, thanks to a very cursed website.

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Cursed Site Uses AI to Generate “Waifus”

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can read through news stories and generate comments that resemble those written by actual human readers.

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Evil Research Generates Fake Comments on News Stories

By Dan Robitzski

At a conference at the Vatican last week, Pope Francis warned that in the wrong hands, AI could have some devastating consequences on humanity.

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The Pope Says AI Could Lead Humanity to “Barbarism”

By Victor Tangermann

A new website called M-Journal will turn Wikipedia articles into fake academic articles so that students can cite it in their homework.

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This Site Turns Wikipedia Pages Into Fake Academic Papers

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon, a company that makes facial recognition software for police, is now attempting to write the laws that regulate facial recognition.

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Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Bills

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this year, a video claiming to be the legendary Trump pee tape surfaced online. It's almost certainly a fake, but it's also unclear how it was made.

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Yes, There’s a “Pee Tape” — and It’s Unclear If It’s a Deepfake

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" — if, he opined, it hasn't done so already.

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Elon Musk: “Advanced AI” Will Manipulate Social Media

By Victor Tangermann

Google claims its quantum computer just completed a task in minutes. The same task would've taken a conventional computer 10,000 years.

Google Claims to Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy”

By Victor Tangermann

The Android app TwinFACE promises to give you "the opportunity to create an anime picture based on a real selfie." But it does a terrible job.

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Finally, an App That Turns Your Selfie into an Anime Character

By Victor Tangermann

Deepfake pioneer Hao Li believes the average person will have access to "perfectly real" deepfakes in just six to 12 months.

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Deepfake Pioneer: “Perfectly Real” Fake Vids Are Six Months Away

By Kristin Houser

Google Assistant was initially supposed to have a male-sounding voice, according to Google, but the technology at the time didn't cooperate.

Google: We Weren’t Being Sexist Giving Assistant a Female Voice

By Kristin Houser

Facebook released a new data policy for its Portal devices that reveals the company will occasionally store audio recordings of Portal users.

Facebook: Actually, We Do Listen to You Sometimes

By Dan Robitzski

New apps use AI to scrutinize your texts and determine whether someone is really into you or if you might not be the best match.

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Can an AI Scan Your Messages to Detect if Someone’s Flirting?

By Dan Robitzski

A newly released Spider-Man deepfake sees Tom Holland take over for Tobey Maguire as emo Peter Parker in 2007's "Spider-Man 3"

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New Deepfake Transforms Tom Holland Into Emo Spider-Man

By Kristin Houser

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.

Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”

By Dan Robitzski

A newly announced campaign calls on Ticketmaster to end its use of facial recognition tech to scan fans' faces at concerts.

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Musicians Don’t Want Ticketmaster Scanning Your Face at Concerts

By Kristin Houser

A new AI tool that can turns selfies into fully-rendered characters in the video game "Justice Online." Apparently it's been used 1 million times.

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Amazing AI Turns Your Selfie Into a 3D Video Game Character

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed in his new book that Taylor Swift threatened to sue the company over "Tay" the Twitter chatbot-turned-Nazi.

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Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened Microsoft Over Racist Chatbot

By Dan Robitzski

Google has banned ads hawking unproven or experimental medical treatments and therapies, including many stem cell and gene therapies.

Google Finally Bans Dangerous Miracle Cure Ads

By Kristin Houser

In areas where access to abortion is limited, Google Maps sometimes directs people looking for clinics to anti-abortion facilities instead.

Google Is Still Misleading People Trying to Find Abortion Clinics

By Dan Robitzski

China plans to "curb and regulate" the use of facial recognition technology in its schools, according to officials from the Ministry of Education.

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Surprise Move: China to Curb Use of Facial Recognition in Schools

By Kristin Houser

A new Twitter account is collecting (legal, consensual) dick pics to test out a filter that can automatically delete unsolicited nudes.

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This Researcher Is Gathering Dick Pics to Test Penis-Detecting AI

By Dan Robitzski

Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech

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Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech

By Kristin Houser

An experimental text adventure game is generated in real-time by artificial intelligence, making for a fascinating, disjointed journey.

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A Neural Network Dreams up This Text Adventure Game as You Play

By Dan Robitzski

New artificial intelligence and virtual reality tools are making it easier for doctors and their patients to fit new prosthetic limbs.

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Doctors Are Using AI and VR to Improve People’s Prosthetic Limbs

By Dan Robitzski

A sociological research survey of AI chatbots' capabilities found that they could empathize with each other and tell jokes among themselves.

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Surprise Research: AIs Can “Sympathize With Each Other”

By Dan Robitzski

Using a deepfake imitating the voice of its parent company's CEO, a scammer convinced an energy executive to transfer $243,000 to a third-party account.

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A Scammer Reportedly Used a Deepfake to Steal $243,000

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese deepfake app Zao replaces famous actors with iPhone users' faces, and though popular, it has quickly raised serious privacy concerns.

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New Deepfake App Lets You “Act” in Popular Movies, TV Shows

By Kristin Houser

A pair of researchers associated with the U.S. Air Force want to give the codes to launch nuclear bombs to an artificial intelligence (AI).

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Air Force-Affiliated Researchers Want to Let AI Launch Nukes

By Victor Tangermann

Google security researchers have uncovered an extensive iPhone hacking effort that may have compromised thousands of users weekly for years.

Google Uncovers Massive, Multi-Year iPhone Hacking Effort

By Kristin Houser

The Pentagon's AI intelligence chief sees deepfake technology as a serious threat to democracy. He called on the government to develop better safeguards.

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Pentagon’s AI Director Calls for Stronger Deepfake Protections

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk believes that we will have a hard time communicating with futuristic AI because it will process information far more rapidly than we do.

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Elon Musk: We Communicate Too Slowly for Future AI to Understand

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook scientists built a minecraft-playing AI assistant that they hope will learn to understand natural language as it performs tasks.

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Facebook Research is Using Minecraft to Train AI. Here’s Why.

By Dan Robitzski

Former Google manager Jennifer Blakely shared her story of how the company's Chief Legal Officer abandoned and abused her after they had a child.

Google Exec Accused of Fathering, Abandoning Baby With Employee

By Dan Robitzski

A new system makes it easier than ever for people to generate believable deepfakes. The AI tool doesn't require training and can swap faces in real-time.

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New System Makes It Troublingly Easy to Create Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake finally answers the age old question: What would it look like if Joe Rogan played Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" films?

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Someone Used a Deepfake to Turn Dr. Evil Into Joe Rogan

By Dan Robitzski

A new algorithm analyzes pixelated images and turns them into photorealistic portraits. Point it toward a bunch of emojis and the results are terrifying.

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AI Turned These Emojis Into Photorealistic Monstrosities

By Dan Robitzski

Seven book publishers, including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's audiobook company Audible.

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Several Large Book Publishers Are Suing Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

A pharmacy call center has deployed AI that coaches human employees how to have more empathy with frustrated customers on the phone.

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In a Strange Twist, This AI Tries to Teach Empathy to Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Governments should step in to prevent tech companies from developing malicious, evil, super-human AI, writes tech expert Wim Naudé.

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Expert: Governments Must Step in to Prevent Evil, Superpowered AI

By Dan Robitzski

Self-driving car companies are benefitting from cheap Venezuelan labor as they compile mountains of annotated training data for their AI.

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Self-Driving Car Companies Depend on Cheap Labor From Venezuela

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft says humans no longer review audio of Xbox users for "product improvement purposes" — but that doesn't mean they aren't still listening.

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Microsoft: We Stopped Listening to Your Xbox Convos “Months Ago”

By Kristin Houser

AI development firm OpenAI just released a stronger version of its fake news-writing AI system, GPT-2. Even more powerful models could be on the way soon.

OpenAI Just Released a New Version of Its Fake News-Writing AI

By Dan Robitzski

Bernie Sanders just announced that he would ban police from using facial recognition tech if he wins in 2020 as part of a broader police reform.

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Bernie Sanders Vows to Ban Police From Using Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Now there's an AI assistant to help DJs pick songs for their sets in real time. It's unclear what, exactly, is left for the DJ to do.

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If You Were Worried DJs Were Working Too Hard, This Idiotic AI Literally Picks Songs for Them

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk has said that he hopes Neuralink will help people keep pace with future AI. But psychologist Susan Scheider warns that would be ill-advised.

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Scientist: Merging Your Brain With AI Would Basically Be Suicide

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese search engine Sogou is creating AI author avatars to narrate the writers' books in both their voices and their likenesses

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These AI Author Avatars Will Read Their Books to You

By Kristin Houser

Amazon claims its Rekognition software can now detect fear on a person's face, as well as provide a better estimate of their age.

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Amazon Claims Rekognition Can Now Detect Fear

By Kristin Houser

Facebook paid third-party contractors to write up transcriptions of user's conversations, despite the company's insistence that it doesn't record us.

Facebook Has Been Secretly Transcribing Your Conversations

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake on YouTube brought some signature cartoony design elements back to Disney's new live-action "The Lion King" remake.

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This Genius Used Deepfakes to “Fix” the New “The Lion King”

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake puts Tom Cruise's face onto Christian Bale's body from "American Psycho." It's a bizarre gray area in the realm of deepfake nudity.

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Someone Deepfaked Tom Cruise Into The “American Psycho” Sex Scene

By Dan Robitzski

AI built to detect hate speech online, including a widely-used tool built by Google, tends to flag tweets written by black people as toxic more often.

Google’s Hate Speech-Detecting AI is Biased Against Black People

By Dan Robitzski

To help us detect deepfakes, researchers are training mice to listen for the kinds of speech irregularities that can crop up in faked audio.

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Scientists Say Mice Could Detect Deepfakes. Seriously.

By Kristin Houser

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5 Ways Singularity University is Exploring Artificial Intelligence at Global Summit This August

By Singularity University

A Chinese city has deployed police robots to help human officers deal with traffic problems, marking another way the nation is using tech to maintain order.

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China Deploys Its First Robot Traffic Police

By Kristin Houser

When journalist Carey Gillam investigated the link between Monsanto weedkillers and cancer, the company worked with Google to discredit her work.

Report: Monsanto Paid Google to Bury Unfavorable News

By Dan Robitzski

Sony researchers have created an AI drummer that can listen to a song and produce a "musically plausible" kick drum beat for it.

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Sony’s New AI Drummer Could Write Beats for Your Band

By Kristin Houser