Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his image and voice including his famous catchphrase: All right, all right, all right from the movie Dazed and Confused in an attempt to forestall unauthorised use by artificial intelligence. The Wall Street Journal reported that McConaughey has had eight separate applications approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office in recent weeks, including film clips of the actor standing on a porch and sitting in front of a tree,
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Nintendo, a company that regularly brings in billions of dollars each year , could have easily afforded to set up a real photoshoot to promote its upcoming line of coming to its New York City and San Francisco stores in February, but it looks like it might have used genAI instead. At least, that's what people think after looking at the photos of parents playing with their kids and the toys.
It's a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X's AI chatbot, has been used repeatedly by users in recent days to undress images of women and minors. The news outlet Reuters identified 102 requests in a 10-minute period last Friday from users to get Grok to edit people into bikinis, the majority of these targeting young women. Grok complied with at least 21 of them.
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As reported by Nexstar, Austin resident Byrne Hobart said he experienced this very thing, writing in a post on X: "Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an AI-generated image of a DoorDash order (left) at our front door (right)." After his post started getting attention, Hobart offered more details, acknowledging that his story would be "pretty easy" to fake.
It looks like Disney wasted no time delivering on CEO Bob Iger's promise to bring AI-generated content to Disney+. On Thursday, the company announced the start of a three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 of its beloved characters, including those from Star Wars and Pixar, to the Sora app and ChatGPT. With the deal in place, OpenAI users will be able to prompt ChatGPT to generate images that tap into Disney's intellectual property, with costumes, props, vehicles and environments covered.
But very oddly, these bagels have the bottom fourth of the bagel cut away and discarded, in a way that I doubt that any human being has ever eaten a bagel, ever. Moreover, one of the shmears is labeled as Pink Label, which is an existing Boichik product, but one that looks nothing like what is depicted below. That's because what is depicted above is a completely fake AI-generated image.
We know that at least 30% of Latinos in the United States use these groups because their phone numbers are local, starting with +1, says Roberta Braga, one of DDIA's founders and executive directors, in an audio message. The Institute focuses on the Latino community, which is why the study has this focus; it has nothing to do with Latinos being more vulnerable to falling for these types of scams, Braga explains.
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Getty had accused Stability AI of using its images to train its Stable Diffusion system, which generates images from text inputs. The case itself is actually technically straightforward: Getty claimed that URLs of Getty images were included within Stability AI's LAION dataset, which is the training model that powers its "Stable Diffusion" v1 and v2 image generation tools.
For the past two months, however, she's been much happier. She told me she was trying online dating. Well, I found out what "online dating" means. Dear Daughter of a Catfish, She has been using AI-generated pictures of younger women to chat with men! To make it worse, she's asked some of them for gifts and revealed personal information that would make her easy to find if they put two and two together.
"those who received these AI generated images and commentary sincerely believed that there was an actual intruder in their home and called 9-1-1 to report a burglary or breaking and entering in progress which necessitated an immediate police response."
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Happy to be with you and happy to highlight this incredible success that we are seeing across our armed forces women in particular. These numbers are fantastic.