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AI Watermarking Won't Curb Disinformation

blog post image "Generative AI allows people to produce piles upon piles of images and words very quickly. It would be nice if there were some way to reliably distinguish AI-generated content from human-generated content. It would help people avoid endlessly arguing with bots online, or believing what a fake image purports...
Source: eff.org

Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech

Digital signatures to provide way to tell real photos from deepfakes
Source: nikkei.com

UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews

Consumer group Which? staged a sting operation to investigate fake Google reviews in the UK.
Source: bbc.com

'Deepfake is the future of content creation'

Deepfake, or AI-generated videos, are increasingly being used commercially.
Source: bbc.com

MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia™, deep learning technology to animate the faces in still family photos

MyHeritage have used the same AI technology behind deep fakes to analyse old photographs and link them to movements from a number of videos of other moving faces. Bring your ancestors back to life.
Source: myheritage.com

Crowds of regular people are as good at moderating fake news on Facebook as professional fact-checkers

Crowds of regular people are as good at moderating fake news on Facebook as professional fact-checkers
Source: niemanlab.org

New Steps to Combat Disinformation - Microsoft on the Issues: Today, Microsoft announces two new technologies to help battle

New Steps to Combat Disinformation - Microsoft on the Issues: Today, Microsoft announces two new technologies to help battle disinformation – Newsguard, which will allow users to check the accuracy of the content they are reading, and Video Authenticator, which can detect deepfakes and other synthetic...
Source: microsoft.com

What makes fake news feel true when it isn

What makes fake news feel true when it isn’t? For one thing, hearing it over and over again: "The more often participants had heard a statement, the more likely they were to attribute it to Consumer Reports rather than the National Enquirer." Key features of effective fake news - should you want to...
Source: niemanlab.org

Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal - IEEE Spectrum

Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal - IEEE Spectrum
Source: ieee.org

Facebook accused of fake audience numbers: Facebook Inc. claims its ads have the potential to reach more people than recent

Facebook accused of fake audience numbers: Facebook Inc. claims its ads have the potential to reach more people than recent U.S. census data shows exist, and that’s troublesome for one analyst, who thinks third-party measurement services stand to benefit.
Source: marketwatch.com

Fake Malaria Meds Meet Their Match in a Handheld Spectrometer: Up to 35 percent of antimalarial drugs are useless. Engineers

Fake Malaria Meds Meet Their Match in a Handheld Spectrometer: Up to 35 percent of antimalarial drugs are useless. Engineers are combatting this counterfeit menace. "The new system uses near-infrared (NIR) spectrometry, directing a beam of NIR light at a pill and recording how the light is absorbed....
Source: ieee.org

How John McCain’s Brain Became 'Fake News': A polarizing debate about a reversible cause of dementia

How John McCain’s Brain Became 'Fake News': A polarizing debate about a reversible cause of dementia
Source: theatlantic.com

Harvard Library gets slammed for its earnest fake news guide: Updates from the fake news world: Plus: The science of why

Harvard Library gets slammed for its earnest fake news guide: Updates from the fake news world: Plus: The science of why we spread stories, Russian propaganda gets into fake news, and a "satirical" fake news site pulls the plug after Whoopi Goldberg calls it out.
Source: niemanlab.org

Fake news gets solved: "Yes, there will always be dark and stupid places on the internet that are just out to make a buck

Fake news gets solved: "Yes, there will always be dark and stupid places on the internet that are just out to make a buck and that will always spread fake news. But most people won't want to go there and great companies won't want to play there."
Source: niemanlab.org