The New York Times Monday May 13, 2024
As experts warn that images, audio and video generated by artificial intelligence could influence the fall elections, OpenAI is releasing a tool designed to detect content created by its own popular image generator, DALL-E. The company said it would share its new deepfake detector with a small group of disinformation researchers for testing, reports The New York Times. OpenAI said its new detector could correctly identify 98.8 percent of images created by DALL-E 3, the latest version of its image generator. Ars Technica calls OpenAI’s ideas “flawed.”
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CNN Monday May 13, 2024
A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun created dazzling auroras across the globe over the weekend, notes CNN, which features images of the light show from Inner Mongolia to New Zealand, and from Chicago to Florida. Brilliant purple, green, yellow and pink hues were reported worldwide, with sightings in Germany, Switzerland, China, England, Spain and elsewhere, adds Associated Press. This was the largest geomagnetic storm in nearly two decades, notes NPR.
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TechCrunch Monday May 13, 2024
Photo editing app VSCO is launching a new marketplace called VSCO Hub that aims to connect professional photographers with brands. VSCO’s platform is similar to other social platforms like Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, which already offer creator marketplaces to help businesses discover content creators and strike partnerships with them, notes TechCrunch. To get access to VSCO Hub, photographers will have to sign up for the $59.99 Pro plan, which has more than 160,000 subscribers.
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David Schonauer Monday May 13, 2024
President Joe Biden signed a bill into law last month that could ban TikTok in the U.S. What will happen next? The bill included a deadline for TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest
within nine months or face a ban on app stores to distribute the app in the U.S. But, as Time magazine noted, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. … Read the full Story >>
