Why Is AI So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris?
When Elon Musk shared an image showing Kamala Harris dressed as a “communist dictator” on X last week, it was quite obviously a fake, seeing as Harris is neither a...
Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?
Leah Feiger: All right, that’s a good one. Thank you, Tori. Will, what do you have for us? Will Knight: Wow, I don’t know if I can really compete with...
New AI Model Can Simulate ‘Super Mario Bros.’ After Watching Gameplay Footage
Last month, Google’s GameNGen AI model showed that generalized image diffusion techniques can be used to generate a passable, playable version of Doom. Now, researchers are using some similar techniques...
This Could Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution
In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that dramatically improved the efficiency of its ecommerce operations and kickstarted a wider revolution in warehouse automation....
AI-Fakes Detection Is Failing Voters in the Global South
But it’s not just that models can’t recognize accents, languages, syntax, or faces less common in Western countries. “A lot of the initial deepfake detection tools were trained on high...
Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping
In a separate analysis conducted this week, data journalist Ben Welsh found that just over a quarter of the news websites he surveyed (294 of 1,167 primarily English-language, US-based publications)...
The Plaud NotePin Is an AI Notetaker That Will Transcribe Your Meetings—and Your Entire Life
“In that case, if you’re not taking precautions and you lose the device, that could be accessible,” Hsu says. “But that’s very extreme.” Ultimately, Hsu has greater ambitions for his...
The Apartment Rental Market Is Rigged by Algorithms, a DOJ Lawsuit Alleges
If you’ve rented an apartment in the US in the past several years, you may have had the sense that the game was rigged: Prices creep up not only at...
A Popular iOS Illustration App Is Saying No to Generative AI
The backlash against image and video synthesis is not solely focused on creative app developers. Hardware manufacturer Wacom and game publisher Wizards of the Coast have faced criticism and issued...
