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Artists such as Karla Ortiz in San Francisco, California, are seeking technical and legal ways to protect their styles as artificial intelligence 'learns' to copy works found online

Artists Use Tech Weapons Against AI Copycats

Artists under siege by artificial intelligence (AI) that studies their work, then replicates their styles, have teamed with university researchers to stymy such copycat activity.
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The rivalry between Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo came to define La Liga as much as that between Barcelona and Real Madrid. Ronaldo left in 2018

Unveiled: The Most Followed Celebrities On Social Media In 2024

The 38 most-followed celebrities featured in this list have navigated the digital landscape with finesse, leveraging their social media platforms not only for self-promotion but also as powerful tools for activism, philanthropy, and meaningful conversations.
The European Union is racing to approve the world's first comprehensive law on AI

EU Seeks Agreement On World's First AI Law

The European Union will seek to thrash out an agreement on sweeping rules to regulate artificial intelligence on Wednesday, following months of difficult negotiations in particular on how to monitor generative AI applications like ChatGPT. The EU is racing to approve the world's first comprehensive AI law after the issue took on greater urgency when the ChatGPT bot burst onto the scene last year, highlighting AI's dizzying advances.
'Lucia' is the first playable woman character in the "Grand Theft Auto" franchise

'Bad Buzz': How Video Games Learnt To Embrace Diversity

The most notorious, violent and often sexist video game "Grand Theft Auto" is finally dropping a playable woman character into its testosterone-fuelled world, capping a wider trend towards more inclusivity in the gaming industry.
Yoshua Bengio, dubbed a 'godfather of AI,' is the founder of the Mila institute in Montreal

Montreal Research Hub Spearheads Global AI Ethics Debate

Rapid developments in artificial intelligence -- and recent turmoil at industry powerhouse OpenAI -- have brought fresh attention to a key hub of ethics research related to the technology in Montreal, led by Canadian "godfather of AI" Yoshua Bengio.
Altman announced late Tuesday that he would be returning to the helm of the ChatGPT creator

Sam Altman's Return Ushers In New Era At OpenAI

Sam Altman's shock return as chief executive of OpenAI late Tuesday -- days after being sacked -- caps a chaotic period that highlighted deep tensions at the heart of the Artificial Intelligence community.
Anyone with a smartphone and specialized software can create the harmful deepfake images

Fake AI Porn Leads To Real Harassment In US High Schools

As AI has boomed, so has deepfake pornography, with hyperrealistic images and videos created with minimal effort and money -- leading to scandals and harassment at multiple high schools in the United States as administrators struggle to respond amid a lack of federal legislation banning the practice.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit group that minds the internet's infrastructure, is worried about chatter at the United Nations about giving more control of the world wide web to individual governments

Polarized World Threatens Open Internet: ICANN

After 25 years of keeping the internet strong and stable, the nonprofit ICANN -- responsible for its technical infrastructure -- is warning that increasingly polarized geopolitics could start cracking the foundations of the online world.
It remains unclear whether Sam Altman will return to OpenAI amid rival reports that he has taken a job with Microsoft and that the board members at OpenAI who ousted him are trying to lure him back

The Twists And Turns Of An OpenAI Meltdown

Silicon Valley star Sam Altman was suddenly ousted from the top spot at OpenAI as it led the race to artificial intelligence, only for the ambitious tech guru to be scooped up by Microsoft.

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