This case involves not typical “deepfake” image fakery, but use of AI-powered tools to generate a 3D model with a real child’s face. It’s a slight variation of a pattern we’re beginning to see regularly, including in the US.
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A blockchain company bought two game studios in almost complete secrecy, apparently to avoid the toxic reputation of crypto in games:
KUSK Law partner Don McGowan ... told Game Developer that there’s nothing illegal about keeping these purchases a secret, but that it is “fucking weird.”
Spoiler: it gutted them both.
IA is slowly recovering from the cyberattack it faced earlier this month, and its latest update brings back a read-only version of archive.org — its digital library full of old games, magazines, videos, and more.
[Internet Archive Blogs]
And its example is really something:
A live demonstration of Google’s Vertex AI was given in which it pretended to be an “expert archivist” and was asked questions about the John F. Kennedy assassination. ... These questions included “Who killed Kennedy?” and “What was the CIA’s involvement in the assassination of Kennedy?”
I see no way this could go wrong!
If you like showing off dolls in their original packaging, you might soon be showcasing work from Adobe’s Firefly AI tools. Mattel and Adobe claim AI-generated (and human-refined) backdrops have “greatly shortened the time it takes to get toys into stores” by cutting out parts of the design process, and the results will hit stores soon.
A gadget maker used what sounds like an imperfect but passable AI imitation of Marques Brownlee to promote its products on Instagram. (We’ve reached out to the company but haven’t heard back.) Fake influencer endorsements seem like an inevitable use of AI tools — if you’ve seen anything similar, I’d love to hear about it.
A bandwidth-hungry tracking app is apparently kicking users with slow internet into a barely functional offline mode. Maybe rural broadband access matters after all:
The Trump campaign and America Pac then have little way to know whether canvassers are actually knocking on doors or whether they are cheating – for instance, by “speed-running” routes where they literally throw campaign materials at doors as they drive past.
