TikTok partners with the Content Authenticity Initiative and Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity to label AI-generated content and provide content credentials to ensure transparency in digital content creation. The platform will automatically oversee offsite AI content and attach metadata to specify its AI origin. By joining Adobe's Content Credentials standards, TikTok becomes the first social media platform to do so, aiming to promote responsible content creation and media literacy. Collaborations with Mediawise and WITNESS will also introduce 12 new resources to enhance the community's critical thinking about AI-generated content and misinformation.
The US Commerce Department's NIST has introduced the GenAI program to analyze generative AI, create benchmarks, and distinguish between human and AI-generated content. This initiative aims to promote the development of responsible AI technologies for societal benefit. The program will focus on synthetic AI, inviting teams to join evaluations as either generators or discriminators to test content authenticity. NIST is concerned with the impact of AI-generated content on patents, human invention, and global industries. The NIST GenAI program will address challenges related to deepfakes and misinformation, aligning with President Joe Biden's executive order on AI transparency and standards.
OpenAI has created an image detection tool to identify AI-generated images, with 98% accuracy for DALL-E 3 creations and struggles with modified images from other models. OpenAI aims to address the threat of AI-generated deepfakes in elections by launching a $2 million Societal Resilience Fund with Microsoft to enhance AI education. The tool doesn't rely on watermarks and is part of the C2PA industry group to certify digital content origins.
In a recent article, fake images circulating at the 2024 Met Gala highlighted the risks of AI, including fake photos of stars such as Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Billie Eilish generated by artificial intelligence. Additionally, micro business owners are using AI to compete with larger brands, and singer Randy Travis is utilizing AI for his music after a stroke. The Federal Trade Commission, under Chairwoman Lina Khan, continues its global campaign against American tech companies. Experts caution about the rise of AI-generated misinformation and the need for increased awareness and regulation.
The Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) is an association founded in November 2019 by Adobe, the New York Times and Twitter. The CAI promotes an industry standard for provenance metadata defined by the C2PA. The CAI cites curbing disinformation as one motivation for its activities.
Deceptive images, videos, and audio created using generative AI tools like DALL-E and Sora are proliferating online, posing risks such as scams, identity theft, and election manipulation. Early signs of deepfake manipulation, like unnatural features or blinking patterns, are becoming harder to detect as AI technology advances. Look for an electronic sheen on AI-generated photos, inconsistencies in shadows and lighting, and discrepancies in the realism of backgrounds to identify potential deepfakes.
OpenAI is working on new methods to track AI-generated images and plans to add a tamper-resistant watermark to them, achieving around a 98% accuracy when detecting images produced with OpenAI's DALL-E generator. However, images from other generators may only be flagged 5-10% of the time. This initiative aims to address the challenge of distinguishing between AI-generated and real images to combat the spread of potentially misleading content, particularly hyper-realistic fake photos.
Substack introduces a program to assist TikTok creators in transforming their channels into Substack shows and communities, aiming to attract users amidst a possible TikTok ban in the United States. The initiative includes free promotion, production help, and PR services for selected creators, emphasizing Substack as the primary platform for content. Substack's move to engage TikTok stars reflects its ambition to expand beyond text newsletters. This strategic step aligns with Instagram's recent focus on original video content promotion, amid competition to capture TikTok's user base.
TikTok and ByteDance filed a lawsuit in US federal court to block a law signed by President Biden that requires the divestiture of TikTok by January 19, 2025. The law, known as the "Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act", faces constitutional challenges from the companies, arguing it violates free speech protections. The lawsuit highlights the difficulty of divesting TikTok and states that the law would effectively shut down the app used by 170 million Americans without articulating a specific threat posed by TikTok.
In the 2020s, the rapid increase in the capabilities of deep learning-based generative artificial intelligence models, including text-to-image models such as Stable Diffusion and large language models such as ChatGPT, are posing questions of how copyright law applies to the training and use of such models. Because there is limited existing case law, experts consider this area to be fraught with uncertainty.The largest issue regards whether infringement occurs when the generative AI is trained or used. Popular deep learning models are generally trained on very large datasets of media scraped from the Internet, much of which is copyrighted. Since the process of assembling training data involves making copies of copyrighted works it may violate the copyright holder's exclusive right to control the reproduction of their work, unless the use is covered by exceptions under a given jurisdiction's copyright statute. Additionally, the use of a model's outputs could be infringing, and the model creator may be accused of "vicarious liability" for said infringement. As of 2023, there are a number of pending US lawsuits challenging the use of copyrighted data to train AI models, with defendants arguing that this falls under fair use.In at least one jurisdiction in the US, output generated solely by a machine has been ruled ineligible for copyright protection. In Thaler v. Perlmutter, the Court held that “work created absent any human involvement” is ineligible for copyright protection, stating, "Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright." What was left undecided in this case is the degree of human involvement required to take a work from being machine-created to being human-created. "Originality" being central to questions of copyright eligibility, most jurisdictions protect only "original" works having a human author. The US Copyright Office has said it will register works that contain "otherwise unprotectable material" but only if the new work contains a "sufficient amount of original authorship".
There is evidence that TikTok has down-weighted the posts of topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party. Topics alleged to have been censored by the platform include the Uyghur genocide, the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, the Sino-Indian border dispute, foreign political leaders, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and Black people. TikTok has also removed or omitted information from its services to comply with company policies, legal demands, and government censorship laws. TikTok's responses to claims of censorship have varied, responding that the platform was attempting to protect users from bullying, arguing that certain instances were the result of human error, and stating that such incidents were the result of algorithmic mistakes.
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn: Shaking sound), is a short-form video hosting service owned by ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes.Since their launches, TikTok and Douyin have gained global popularity. In October 2020, TikTok surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide. Cloudflare ranked TikTok the most popular website of 2021, surpassing Google. TikTok's popularity has resulted in the platform having an increasing cultural impact worldwide.The app's privacy practices have come under increased criticism and scrutiny. Countries have also restricted, banned, or attempted to ban the use of TikTok over national security concerns that data could be collected by the Chinese government.
Warren Buffett raised concerns about artificial intelligence, predicting it would enhance fraud by creating more convincing scams. He compared AI to the atom bomb, expressing worries about its power and impact. Buffett highlighted the difficulty in distinguishing real from AI-generated images and videos, citing a personal experience with a deepfake video. Despite acknowledging AI's potential, he emphasized his lack of expertise in the technology.
Artificial intelligence art is any visual artwork created through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as text-to-image models.Artists began to create AI art in the mid- to late 20th century, when the discipline was founded. In the early 21st century, the availability of AI art tools to the general public increased, providing opportunities for use outside of academia and professional artists. Throughout its history, artificial intelligence art has raised many philosophical concerns, including those related to copyright, deception, and its impact on traditional artists, including their incomes.
OpenAI released a draft of its Model Spec sheet emphasizing no intention to create AI-generated pornography but exploring NSFW content responsibly. The company prioritizes safeguards against deepfakes and protecting children while discussing age-appropriate exploration of sexuality. Despite speculation, OpenAI's focus is on preventing inappropriate content requests, including erotica and extreme gore, with considerations for generating NSFW content in proper contexts like writing a song lyric with a curse word. The controversy around AI porn, notably deepfakes, has raised concerns, as seen with instances like non-consensual fake AI adult images.
Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI, GenAI, or GAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts. Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics.Improvements in transformer-based deep neural networks enabled an AI boom of generative AI systems in the early 2020s. These include large language model (LLM) chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and LLaMA, text-to-image artificial intelligence image generation systems such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DALL-E, and text-to-video AI generators such as Sora. Companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and Baidu as well as numerous smaller firms have developed generative AI models.Generative AI has uses across a wide range of industries, includingsoftware development, healthcare, finance, entertainment, customer service, sales and marketing, art, writing, fashion, and product design. However, concerns have been raised about the potential misuse of generative AI such as cybercrime, the use of fake news or deepfakes to deceive or manipulate people, and the mass replacement of human jobs.
TikTok has filed a lawsuit to prevent a US law that might result in a national ban of the app, arguing it violates the First Amendment rights of its 170 million US users. The legal battle will determine whether US security concerns over TikTok's ties to China can override these rights. If TikTok loses, it may face a ban from US app stores unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells the app to a non-Chinese entity by 2025. The company denies providing US user data to the Chinese government and claims the law stifles free speech and access to lawful information.
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram have integrated Meta AI into their mobile app search fields, leading to unexpected chatbot interactions, such as generating images and providing advice unrelated to the platforms. Users are perplexed by the chipper and G-rated suggestions and find the intrusion of AI into the familiar search bar space unsettling. The use of AI in Meta's apps has been criticized for making the platforms feel 'unusable' with clickbait-y AI images and bizarre AI-generated comments. The prompts like 'Ask Meta AI anything' coupled with unfamiliar AI interactions further add to the confusion.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to the intelligence of living beings, primarily of humans. It is a field of study in computer science that develops and studies intelligent machines. Such machines may be called AIs.AI technology is widely used throughout industry, government, and science. Some high-profile applications are: advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search), recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix), interacting via human speech (e.g., Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa), self-driving cars (e.g., Waymo), generative and creative tools (e.g., ChatGPT and AI art), and superhuman play and analysis in strategy games (e.g., chess and Go).Alan Turing was the first person to conduct substantial research in the field that he called machine intelligence. Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. The field went through multiple cycles of optimism, followed by periods of disappointment and loss of funding, known as AI winter. Funding and interest vastly increased after 2012 when deep learning surpassed all previous AI techniques, and after 2017 with the transformer architecture. This led to the AI spring of the early 2020s, with companies, universities, and laboratories overwhelmingly based in the United States pioneering significant advances in artificial intelligence.The growing use of artificial intelligence in the 21st century is influencing a societal and economic shift towards increased automation, data-driven decision-making, and the integration of AI systems into various economic sectors and areas of life, impacting job markets, healthcare, government, industry, and education. This raises questions about the ethical implications and risks of AI, prompting discussions about regulatory policies to ensure the safety and benefits of the technology.The various sub-fields of AI research are centered around particular goals and the use of particular tools. The traditional goals of AI research include reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception, and support for robotics. General intelligence (the ability to complete any task performable by a human) is among the field's long-term goals.To solve these problems, AI researchers have adapted and integrated a wide range of problem-solving techniques, including search and mathematical optimization, formal logic, artificial neural networks, and methods based on statistics, operations research, and economics. AI also draws upon psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience and other fields.
Libs of TikTok is a handle for various far-right and anti-LGBT social-media accounts operated by Chaya Raichik ( KHAH-yə RY-chik), a former real estate agent. Raichik uses the accounts to repost content created by left-wing and LGBT people on TikTok, and on other social-media platforms, often with hostile, mocking, or derogatory commentary. The accounts promote hate speech and transphobia, and spread false claims, especially relating to medical care of transgender children. The X (formerly Twitter) account, also known by the handle @LibsofTikTok, has nearly 3 million followers as of February 2024 and has become influential among American conservatives and the political right. Libs of TikTok's social-media accounts have received several temporary suspensions and a permanent suspension from TikTok.Some Libs of TikTok posts have resulted in harassment against teachers, medical providers, children's hospitals, libraries, LGBT venues, and educational facilities, several of which having received bomb threats after being featured on a post. Libs of TikTok posts regularly slur LGBT people, as well as those who provide mental-health services to LGBT youth and LGBT sex education to students, as "groomers". Its followers "routinely attack individuals whose content is shared", and several dozen incidents of online or real-life threats and harassment against a range of targets, including 21 bomb threats, have been linked to Libs of TikTok's tweets, especially those where Raichik singles out specific events, locations or people.Raichik created the Twitter account in November 2020, and, after adopting a series of different handles, she changed its name to @LibsofTikTok in April 2021. Later that year, the account began receiving media attention, including from conservative commentators and news outlets. Raichik remained anonymous until her identity was revealed in April 2022 by, separately, software developer Travis Brown and The Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz. In August 2022, Libs of TikTok received substantial media attention after falsely claiming that gender-affirming hysterectomies were being provided to minors at the Boston Children's Hospital and at the Children's National Hospital. This resulted in harassment campaigns, including bomb threats, against both hospitals. Libs of TikTok's videos have also been promoted by Russian and European disinformation networks, particularly a Kremlin-backed anti-LGBTQ disinformation campaign.
In the United States, social media service TikTok has faced many bans and attempted bans due to national security concerns and its ownership by the Chinese company ByteDance. As of June 2023, federal employees and state employees in 34 (out of 50) states are prohibited from using the app on government devices. In May 2023, Montana became the first state to ban TikTok on all personal devices, though this is being challenged in court.
Character.ai (also known as c.ai or Character AI) is a neural language model chatbot service that can generate human-like text responses and participate in contextual conversation. Constructed by previous developers of Google's LaMDA, Noam Shazeer, and Daniel De Freitas, the beta model was made available to use by the public in September 2022.Users can create "characters", craft their "personalities", set specific parameters, and then publish them to the community for others to chat with. Many characters may be based on fictional media sources or celebrities, while others are completely original, some being made with certain goals in mind such as assisting with creative writing or being a text-based adventure game.In May 2023, the service added a monthly subscription option and a mobile app was released for both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, which had over 1.7 million downloads within its first week.
ByteDance is under pressure to sell its US TikTok operations as the deadline approaches following a bill signed by President Joe Biden. In the absence of TikTok, creators are exploring Clapper, a platform targeting older generations with a focus on community building and friendship through features like the "Nearby" and hashtag connections. Despite similarities to TikTok in functionality, Clapper is yet to attract younger Zoomers, with TikTok still predominantly popular among Gen Zers.
Multiple governmental agencies and private businesses have imposed or attempted to impose temporary or indefinite bans on the social media service TikTok due to concerns from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, national security, China's ownership and influence, pornography, human trafficking, children's safety, antisemitism, addictiveness, terrorism and toxic content.
X is using Grok to publish AI-generated summaries of news and other topics that trend on the platform. The feature, which is currently only available to premium subscribers, is called Stories on X, according to a post from the companys engineering account. According to X, Grok relies on users posts to generate the text snippets. Some seem to be more news-focused, while others are summaries of conversations happening on the platform itself. One user posted a screenshot that showed stories about Apples earnings report and aid to Ukraine, as well as one for Musk, Experts Debate National Debt, which was a summary of a candid online discussion between Musk and other prominent figures on X.
The AI boom, or AI spring, is the ongoing period of rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence. Prominent examples include protein folding prediction and generative AI, led by laboratories including Google DeepMind and OpenAI.The AI boom is expected to have a profound cultural, philosophical, religious, economic, and social impact, as questions such as AI alignment, qualia, and the development of artificial general intelligence became widely prominent topics of popular discussion.
Meta AI is an artificial intelligence laboratory owned by Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) Meta AI develops various forms of artificial intelligence, developing augmented and artificial reality technologies. Meta AI is an academic research laboratory focused on generating knowledge for the AI community. This is in contrast to Facebook's Applied Machine Learning (AML) team, which focuses on practical applications of its products.
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