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fromWIRED
28 minutes ago

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

One photorealistic Grok video, hosted on Grok.com, shows a fully naked AI-generated man and woman, covered in blood across the body and face, having sex, while two other naked women dance in the background. The video is framed by a series of images of anime-style characters. Another photorealistic video includes an AI-generated naked woman with a knife inserted into her genitalia, with blood appearing on her legs and the bed.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromKotaku
5 hours ago

Meet The Grok-Powered Anime Hologram For PC Gamers

Razer released an AI Desk Companion with a swappable 3D holographic avatar called Kira, powered by xAI's Grok, as part of Project Ava.
fromIrish Independent
7 hours ago

Minister seeks showdown with Elon Musk's X over Grok undressing minors, as research reveals 6,700 images per hour created by its AI engine

"In light of the recent controversies relating to Grok, I have written directly to X to request a meeting to discuss what steps the platform is taking to address these issues and to ensure compliance with Irish and EU law. I have also been in contact with Coimisiún na Meán and with the Office of the Attorney General to seek updates on how this matter is being assessed from a legal and regulatory perspective."
EU data protection
#ai-generated-content
fromFast Company
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

AI now writes more than half of new online articles. What's next for human authorship?

fromFast Company
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

AI now writes more than half of new online articles. What's next for human authorship?

Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 day ago

xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding | TechCrunch

xAI raised $20 billion, plans expansion, has 600 million monthly users, but generated sexualized deepfakes including CSAM and is under international investigation.
#ai-image-generation
fromFortune
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot draws global backlash for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent | Fortune

fromFuturism
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Sam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs... With an Absolutely Hilarious Error

fromFortune
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot draws global backlash for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent | Fortune

fromFuturism
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Sam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs... With an Absolutely Hilarious Error

Europe news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

UK presses X to address intimate deepfake images

Nonconsensual intimate deepfake images of women and minors are proliferating on X via Grok, prompting urgent calls for the platform to remove illegal content and act swiftly.
fromSlate Magazine
1 day ago

Elon Musk's Chatbot Is Making Child Sexual Abuse Images for Users. Why Aren't Lawmakers Doing Anything About It?

As 2025 gave way to the new year, something abominable transpired across X, formerly Twitter: A bunch of its paying subscribers spent the holidays ordering the "anti-woke" generative A.I. tool Grok to edit images of female users-from spambot accounts to K-pop celebrities to underage girls -by "removing" articles of clothing or fully "imagining" them in the nude.
Artificial intelligence
#ai-generated-media
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago
Digital life

I'm watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront | Yanis Varoufakis

fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago
Digital life

I'm watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront | Yanis Varoufakis

#ai-generated-images
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago
Privacy professionals

AI-generated sex abuse images being used to blackmail children online, Dail committee told

fromIndependent
2 weeks ago
Privacy professionals

AI-generated sex abuse images being used to blackmail children online, Dail committee told

#ai-chatbot
fromTechzine Global
1 day ago

European Commission investigates X for illegal deepfakes

The European Commission is intensifying its investigation into X due to the way in which the AI tool Grok is being used to generate sexualized deepfakes. This follows a series of recent reports from France, as previously reported by Techzine , which show that Grok generated explicit sexual images involving children. The case has led to criminal proceedings by the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office. In addition, French ministers are calling for the regulator ARCOM to be involved under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Miscellaneous
fromThe Hollywood Reporter
2 days ago

Equinox to Distract L.A. Drivers With Billboard of Three-Breasted Woman

On the left of one such billboard is a startling reality-bending image of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau coiled around a stripper pole. Another billboard features an echo of the much-memed deepfake of Pope Francis in a stylish puffer coat. On the right of both billboards is an, evidently real, often sweaty, intimidatingly fit person in workout gear. Across both is the tagline, "Question Everything but Yourself," followed by the now familiar "Equinox It's not Fitness. It's Life."
Artificial intelligence
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
6 days ago

ThreatsDay Bulletin: GhostAd Drain, macOS Attacks, Proxy Botnets, Cloud Exploits, and 12+ Stories

Threat actors are evolving rapidly, exploiting many small openings with precise, low-noise tactics that blur the line between normal operations and compromise.
Social media marketing
fromThe Verge
6 days ago

You can't trust your eyes to tell you what's real anymore, says the head of Instagram

Authenticity is becoming reproducible as AI and deepfakes enable anyone to create indistinguishable media, raising the value of uniquely personal creator content.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

Fact check: Content farm videos on Merz, Starmer and Trump DW 12/31/2025

AI tools have accelerated deepfake and false political videos, producing convincing fake claims about leaders and policies that spread widely and mislead publics.
#ai
fromIndependent
1 week ago
Miscellaneous

My deepfake doppelganger even fooled my own mother - that's how difficult it is to spot AI-generated disinformation

fromThe SportsRush
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

'I Saw Stephen Hawking Going Down on a Skateboard': Cam Heyward Believes AI Is Not Being Used for the Good

fromIndependent
1 week ago
Miscellaneous

My deepfake doppelganger even fooled my own mother - that's how difficult it is to spot AI-generated disinformation

fromThe SportsRush
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

'I Saw Stephen Hawking Going Down on a Skateboard': Cam Heyward Believes AI Is Not Being Used for the Good

fromSocial Media Explorer
1 week ago

The Cost of Ignoring AI-Based Threats Going Into 2026 - Social Media Explorer

AI-Enhanced Phishing and Deepfakes: No longer are phishing emails riddled with obvious errors. AI tools can instantly craft convincing messages by harvesting content from social media and corporate sites, personalizing scams to increase their effectiveness. Adding to this, deepfake technology enables cybercriminals to mimic voices and even video images of executives to authorize wire transfers or issue fake instructions, making fraud exponentially harder to detect.
Information security
#disinformation
fromBurrus Research
4 weeks ago
Marketing

Leading with Trust in the AI-Driven Social Business Era

AI-driven personalization increases engagement but simultaneously amplifies misinformation and undermines digital trust, making trust both critical and fragile for brands.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago
Miscellaneous

Russia's disinformation campaign in Armenia gains momentum DW 11/30/2025

Coordinated Russia-linked disinformation targets Armenia's government ahead of elections, using AI deepfakes to erode institutional trust and boost pro-Kremlin actors.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

The Deepfake Courtroom Problem: A Colorado Blue Ribbon Study Sheds Some Light And Offers A Start To Solutions - Above the Law

AI-created or enhanced video evidence requires improved access, storage, judicial/jury guidelines, and reliability safeguards to address authenticity, bias, and integrity in legal proceedings.
#mrbeast
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

When Deepfakes Harm, Some Victims Are Taken Less Seriously

People perceive sexualized deepfake abuse as less harmful to male victims than to female victims, with gender, race, and national context shaping biases.
#digital-blackface
fromAxios
1 week ago
Social justice

Racist AI content is spreading fast - and swaying political opinions

fromWIRED
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

The Viral 'DoorDash Girl' Saga Unearthed a Nightmare for Black Creators

fromAxios
1 week ago
Social justice

Racist AI content is spreading fast - and swaying political opinions

fromWIRED
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

The Viral 'DoorDash Girl' Saga Unearthed a Nightmare for Black Creators

fromFortune
1 week ago

Ex-Palantir turned politician Alex Bores says AI deepfakes are a 'solvable problem' if we bring back a free, decades-old technique | Fortune

Rather than training people to spot visual glitches in fake images or audio, Bores said policymakers and the tech industry should lean on a well-established cryptographic approach similar to what made online banking possible in the 1990s. Back then, skeptics doubted consumers would ever trust financial transactions over the internet. The widespread adoption of HTTPS-using digital certificates to verify that a website is authentic-changed that.
Artificial intelligence
#synthetic-media
fromFortune
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the 'indistinguishable threshold' | Fortune

Deepfakes in 2025 reached human-level realism and massive volume, often indistinguishable from authentic recordings and increasingly used to deceive.
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago
Information security

Deepfakes are no longer just a disinformation problem. They are your next supply chain risk

Deepfakes have evolved into a systemic corporate threat capable of enabling enterprise-scale fraud, corrupting workflows, and undermining executive identity verification.
fromFortune
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the 'indistinguishable threshold' | Fortune

fromFast Company
2 weeks ago
Information security

Deepfakes are no longer just a disinformation problem. They are your next supply chain risk

Information security
fromThe Hacker News
2 weeks ago

Nomani Investment Scam Surges 62% Using AI Deepfake Ads on Social Media

Nomani investment scam rose 62%, expanded across social platforms, used AI deepfakes and malvertising to steal funds and extract additional fees and personal data.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

America's Holiday in Epstein Purgatory

Deepfakes and AI-generated sexual images circulate widely, and a new DOJ document release includes numerous Trump mentions that triggered a defensive DOJ statement.
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

Google's and OpenAI's Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis

Some users of popular chatbots are generating bikini deepfakes using photos of fully clothed women as their source material. Most of these fake images appear to be generated without the consent of the women in the photos. Some of these same users are also offering advice to others on how to use the generative AI tools to strip the clothes off of women in photos and make them appear to be wearing bikinis.
Artificial intelligence
fromPCWorld
2 weeks ago

Social media is being slammed by deceptive AI videos. Here's how to spot them

Sora2 is the latest video AI model from OpenAI. The system generates completely artificial short videos from text, images, or brief voice input. Since October 2025, there has also been API access that developers can use to automatically create and publish AI videos. As a result, the number of artificial clips continues to grow every day. Many of them look astonishingly real and are almost indistinguishable from real footage for users.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromAxios
2 weeks ago

Synthetic soul: AI-generated gospel "Mississippi" singer Solomon Ray tops Christian chart

AI-generated gospel artist Solomon Ray, created by Christopher 'Topher' Townsend, reached No. 1 on multiple charts and amassed millions of streams and views.
France news
fromThe Local France
2 weeks ago

Burkinabe teen behind viral French 'coup' video has no regrets

A 17-year-old in Burkina Faso used AI to create a fake video of a French coup that went viral and drew international attention.
Information security
fromwww.housingwire.com
2 weeks ago

AI-driven wire fraud schemes reshape real estate security in 2025

Criminals increasingly combine AI-driven deepfakes, improved timing, contextual realism, and human patience to execute sophisticated wire fraud against title transactions.
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago

Republicans make deepfake AI video of Democrat giving a kid trans hormone therapy - LGBTQ Nation

Republicans deployed AI-generated deepfake ads falsely portraying Gov. Janet Mills as enabling boys to compete in girls' sports and providing no-parent-permission estrogen kits.
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

The Year in Slop

The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine intelligence, gauges the point at which a text-generating machine can fool a human into thinking it's not a robot. ChatGPT passed that benchmark earlier this year, inaugurating a new technological era, though not necessarily one of superhuman intelligence. More recently, however, artificial intelligence passed another threshold, a kind of Turing test for the eye: the images and videos that A.I. can produce are now sometimes indistinguishable from real ones.
Artificial intelligence
US politics
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes

AI-generated misinformation is increasingly spreading across partisan lines as liberals also share viral deepfakes and partisan AI content on social platforms.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They're Creating

AI researchers warn of catastrophic AGI risks while often overlooking immediate harms such as deepfakes, chatbot mental-health crises, and cultural/artistic appropriation.
Philosophy
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

Asian bishops call for prudent, pastoral engagement with AI, recognizing its potential for ministry while warning against fake intimacy, deepfakes, and erosion of human dignity.
World news
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

National security experts warn extremist groups are experimenting with AI. Here's how

Extremist groups are using accessible AI to produce propaganda, realistic deepfakes, and refine cyberattacks to recruit and amplify their influence.
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Making nightmares into reality: AI finds fans in the Islamic State, other militant and terrorist other groups worldwide | Fortune

As the rest of the world rushes to harness the power of artificial intelligence, militant groups also are experimenting with the technology, even if they aren't sure exactly what to do with it. For extremist organizations, AI could be a powerful tool for recruiting new members, churning out realistic deepfake images and refining their cyberattacks, national security experts and spy agencies have warned.
World news
Information security
fromComputerworld
3 weeks ago

Emerging cyber threats: How businesses can bolster their defenses

Enterprises must understand evolving cyber threats from AI, quantum computing, and emerging biotechnologies to protect data, infrastructure, and privacy.
fromRochesterFirst
3 weeks ago

New York enacts first-in-nation AI transparency, deceased likeness laws for film and advertising

The AI transparency law mandates that advertisements clearly identify when they feature synthetic performers-digitally created media designed to appear as real people. The law aims to prevent consumers from being misled by content that blurs the line between reality and artificial creation. The second law updates New York's rights of publicity by requiring companies to obtain consent from heirs or executors before using a deceased individual's name, image, or likeness for commercial purposes.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

OpenAI Preparing to Launch Smut Blaster 5000

AI-driven erotic content demand is rapidly expanding, prompting major companies like OpenAI to prepare adult-targeted features while raising safety and misuse concerns.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth

Disney and OpenAI entered a three-year licensing deal and a $1 billion investment that permits AI-generated depictions of over 200 animated characters beginning around 2026.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

2025 Was David Lynch

A.I. promises creative benefits yet risks commercialization and horror; Lynch's death and political disasters converged, intensifying public engagement with his work.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

2wai offers HoloAvatars—AI renditions and digital twins that simulate conversations with loved ones, historical figures, celebrities, and fictional characters.
Tech industry
fromAbc
4 weeks ago

Meta ran ads for alleged bond scam that defrauded millions from investors

Meta advertisements helped lure about 80 Australians into a fraudulent bond scheme that allegedly stole roughly $23 million from investors.
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
4 weeks ago

A visual verification tax comes due

By 2026, newsrooms must build visual investigative and verification competence or suffer corrections, credibility loss, and missed reporting opportunities.
fromFuturism
4 weeks ago

Elon Musk's xAI Says It Can Now Stuff AI-Generated Product Placement Into Any Scene of Your Favorite Movie

In an announcement, Elon Musk's AI company xAI unveiled a new tool called "Halftime" which "dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you're watching." Instead of cutting to an ad break, Halftime manipulates the characters onscreen into deviating from the script and prominently brandishing a product of a marketer's choice. The tool is meant to make ad "breaks feel like part of the story instead of interruptions," the company said.
Television
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

How Might Using AI Generate Psychotic Delusions?

It has been noted that some individuals who engage with AI tools report symptoms of psychosis-especially delusions-resulting from their interactions with AI. 1,2 It may not only be the AI interaction, but exposure to its products, such as deep fakes, that are implicated. In fact, any AI-generated doubt concerning the bedrock or background belief system that stops a cascade of delusional thinking from starting 3 may be implicated.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
4 weeks ago

How to prove you're not a deepfake on Zoom: LinkedIn's 'verified' badge to all platforms - for free

As AI continues lowering the barrier to malicious identity spoofing and fraud, Oscar Rodriguez, LinkedIn's vice president of product for Trust,told ZDNET that the program is designed to drive more trustworthy internet experiences and user-to-user engagement. "It is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between what is real and what's fake," Rodriguez noted. "That, for us, was the driver because LinkedIn is about trust and authentic connections."
Privacy technologies
fromTheregister
4 weeks ago

UK calls on Europe to counter Russia's expanding info wars

Across Europe we are witnessing an escalation in hybrid threats - from physical through to cyber - designed to weaken critical national infrastructure, undermine our interests and interfere in our democracies all for the advantage of malign foreign states,
Miscellaneous
#generative-ai
fromFortune
1 month ago
Writing

Dictionaries' words of the year are trying to tell us something about being online in 2025 | Fortune

fromInfoQ
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering

fromFortune
1 month ago
Writing

Dictionaries' words of the year are trying to tell us something about being online in 2025 | Fortune

fromInfoQ
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering

fromRest of World
1 month ago

Cheap and powerful AI campaigns target voters in India

The voice cloning in local dialects was the most demanded product and a real game changer,
World politics
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 month ago

From 'AI slop' to 'rage bait': 2025's words of the year represent digital disillusionment

2025 language choices emphasize digital-life anxieties, spotlighting AI-generated low-quality content ("AI slop"), deepfakes, manipulation, and erosion of online trust.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Six greats reads: a train ride to the future; searching for the sky boys' and wallaby hunting in the English countryside

Rival companies are spending trillions to develop powerful AI that could transform or potentially endanger humanity.
#health-misinformation
US news
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Crims using social media images in virtual kidnapping scams

Criminals use altered social media and public images, often with AI, to create fake proof-of-life photos and videos for virtual kidnapping extortion.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It was about degrading someone completely': the story of Mr DeepFakes the world's most notorious AI porn site

A German journalist discovered explicit deepfake images of herself on a dedicated site, secured removal, tracked the creator, but could not identify the site's operators.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 month ago

As AI impersonation spikes, this startup just raised $28M to stop deepfakes in real time | Fortune

A startup uses device telemetry and network diagnostics to detect and block real-time AI-powered impersonation attacks.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: One girl was so horrified she vomited'

It worries me that it's so normalised. He obviously wasn't hiding it. He didn't feel this was something he shouldn't be doing. It was in the open and people saw it. That's what was quite shocking. A headteacher is describing how a teenage boy, sitting on a bus on his way home from school, casually pulled out his phone, selected a picture from social media of a girl at a neighbouring school and used a nudifying app to doctor her image.
Artificial intelligence
#ai-video-generation
Psychology
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Are YOU a 'super recogniser'? Take the test to see if you are one

A minority of people, called super recognisers, possess a rare, likely genetic ability to recognize faces exceptionally well.
Information security
fromAxios
1 month ago

Deepfakes are flooding retailers as part of scammers' return fraud operations

AI-powered deepfake voice bots are impersonating customers to exploit customer-service systems and obtain fraudulent refunds; these attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication.
Law
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds

One in four people think creating or sharing non-consensual sexual deepfakes is acceptable or feel neutral, and many victims do not report such abuse.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been

Deepfakes proliferate in politics, making image literacy essential; Ghostlight reconstructs staged historical moments to teach critical viewing through Brechtian art.
Education
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

N.H. middle schoolers used AI to create nudes of classmates, parents say

Students allegedly used AI to create and share deepfake nude images of three female classmates, prompting parental outrage and calls for school transparency and policies.
#artificial-intelligence
Television
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

Glen Powell and "SNL" Took on AI Hallucinations

Glen Powell's long-delayed SNL hosting displayed versatile characters and highlighted a chilling AI-photo sketch that explored the uncanny valley and AI hallucination concerns.
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