The market for synthetic data is bigger than you think
To understand what's happening, but also what's coming if synthetic data does get more broadly adopted, we talked to various CEOs and VCs over the last few months. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
View ArticleGoogle bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab
Google has banned the training of AI systems that can be used to generate deepfakes on its Google Colaboratory platform. The updated terms of use, spotted over the weekend by Unite.ai and...
View ArticleThis co-worker does not exist: FBI warns of deepfakes interviewing for tech jobs
A lot of people are worried about the prospect of competing with AI for their jobs, but this probably isn’t what they were expecting. The FBI has warned of an uptick in cases where “deepfakes” and...
View ArticleMystery rocket makes moonfall
Hello and welcome back to Week in Review, where we recap the biggest stories from the week. If you want this in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here. Greg Kumparak is still on vacation, but not to...
View ArticleThis startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned
DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more. But it has an important, artificial...
View ArticleDeepfakes for all: Uncensored AI art model prompts ethics questions
A new open source AI image generator capable of producing realistic pictures from any text prompt has seen stunningly swift uptake in its first week. Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, high fidelity but...
View ArticleTwitter. Whistle. Blown. (and other TC news)
This week on The TechCrunch Podcast we’re talking to Zack Whittaker about TechCrunch’s new spyware lookup tool and a whistleblower complaint against Twitter alleging massive security issues. Tim De...
View ArticleAI is getting better at generating porn. We might not be prepared for the...
A red-headed woman stands on the moon, her face obscured. Her naked body looks like it belongs on a poster you’d find on a hormonal teenager’s bedroom wall — that is, until you reach her torso, where...
View ArticleRephrase.ai lands fresh investment to grow its synthetic media platform
Rephrase.ai, a self-described synthetic media production platform, today announced that it raised $10.6 million in a Series A round led by Red Ventures with participation from Silver Lake and 8VC. CEO...
View ArticleSouth Park creators’ deepfake video startup Deep Voodoo conjures $20M in new...
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park and various other media over the years, have raised $20 million to continue work on their professional deepfake studio for creators, Deep Voodoo. The...
View Article‘Universal translator’ dubs and lip-syncs speakers — but Google warns against...
Google is testing a powerful new translation service that redubs video in a new language while also synchronizing the speaker’s lips with words they never spoke. It could be very useful for a lot of...
View ArticleHow badly will AI-generated images impact elections?
There’s a very high risk that artificial intelligence (AI) will put the integrity of the election process into question. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleYepic fail: This startup promised not to make deepfakes without consent, but...
U.K.-based startup Yepic AI claims to use “deepfakes for good” and promises to “never reenact someone without their consent.” But the company did exactly what it claimed it never would. In an...
View ArticleYouTube adapts its policies for the coming surge of AI videos
YouTube today announced how it will approach handling AI-created content on its platform with a range of new policies surrounding responsible disclosure as well as new tools for requesting the removal...
View ArticleMicrosoft launches a deepfakes creator at Ignite 2023 event
One of the more unexpected products to launch out of the Microsoft Ignite 2023 event is a tool that can create a photorealistic avatar of a person and animate that avatar saying things that the person...
View ArticleIndia seeks to regulate deepfakes amid ethical concerns
India is drafting rules to detect and limit the spread of deepfake content and other harmful AI media, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, following reports of proliferation of such content on social...
View Article‘Animate Anyone’ heralds the approach of full-motion deepfakes
As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a photo of themselves online: with Animate Anyone, bad actors can puppeteer...
View ArticleSony’s new ‘digital birth certificate’ for imaging tech smells a lot like NFTs
Sony is breaking new ground in the ongoing NFTs and content authenticity saga. At CES 2024 in Las Vegas, the conglomerate known for its electronics, gaming, and entertainment products has announced the...
View ArticleFox partners with Polygon Labs to tackle deepfake distrust
As deepfakes proliferate, their ability to mislead and sow distrust is becoming of major concern to security experts — and the general public. A recent survey from McAfee found that the vast majority...
View ArticleSwift retaliation: Fans strike back after explicit deepfakes flood X
Nonconsensual deepfake porn of Taylor Swift went viral on X this week, with one post garnering more than 45 million views, 24,000 reposts and hundreds of thousands of likes before it was removed. The...
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