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Deepfake technology is reaping victims in various fields: whether it is revenge porn and celebrity or large-scale scams, these artificially generated videos seem to be the most valuable resource for any fraudster. Having the ability to create ad-hoc videos, using the face and voice of unsuspecting victims, is proving i...

As of 31 January, a large part of the music universe on Tiktok seems to have almost entirely disappeared. Universal Music Group (UMG) had already announced during the last weeks of January its intention to withdraw its sound content from the application. Following negotiations regarding the appropriate compensation fo...

The interest of Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, in artificial intelligence is not exactly new. In an attempt to achieve OpenAI's fame, the company has invested with peculiar constancy in various projects dedicated to the artificial generation environment over the past year. Recently, Meta st...

Elon Musk, the American entrepreneur who is increasingly talked about these days, seems to have become something of a figurehead when it comes to controversial strategic moves. After giving a new face to the famous social network 'Twitter' and implementing more and more extremely sensitive functions within the Tesla sy...

Recently, Fandomwire published a post on X (Twitter) dedicated to the actor who will play the role of Kang The Conqueror in the next Marvel film. The post, now deleted, explained that Jonathan Majors, the actor previously chosen for the part, will be replaced by John David Washington. Apparently, this post seems like a...

As predicted in the past, deepfake technology is currently being used as the main means of generating pornographic videos, whether caused by revenge-porn or personal perversion. The famous American singer Taylor Swift recently became a victim of this trend: her face was used for a pornographic video made via deepfake....

Twitter, or X, has undergone several changes over the past year. One of the arguably most useful additions is, undoubtedly, the "gold check": the typical blue symbol originally reserved for verified profiles, now available in other colors to identify nonprofits and government organizations. Unlike its original function...

The speed of content generation by artificial intelligence has always been a cause for concern for experts, who tried to warn the general public and consumers still at the beginning of the unstoppable rise of this technology. Now, a few years after its enormous development, the vast world of the Internet seems to appe...

A former executive of Stability AI, the company behind the famous artificial intelligence Stable Diffusion, resigned publicly a few months ago, following a disagreement with its owners. Finding himself at odds with the misuse of others' content to 'train' AI models, Ed Newton-Rex made his opinion known online, via a po...

The project of creating a general artificial intelligence sounds rather ambitious, even more so when considering that the definition of such a concept has not yet been identified - not even by the great minds of Silicon Valley. Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his intention to approach the development of s...

It is no news that the topic of artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips these days. New technologies always attract a fair amount of attention, to be reductive, all the more so when they are as 'controversial' as today's topic. Being a topic with many facets, many meanings, and at the basis of which lies conside...

Do we need celebrity complaints to finally regularise a technology that is harming the entire population? According to the US Congress, yes. Following an increase in complaints from famous individuals and victims of misused deepfake technology, María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA) have proposed a bill...

When it comes to counterfeiting, one tends to think, first and foremost, of money. In this case, the situation is different, although money still plays a primary role in the matter. The textile sector seems to be the main victim of this illicit activity - recently, a loss of EUR 12 billion in annual sales (around 5% of...

As a result of developments in recent years, there has been a widespread realization that most jobs and professions will sooner or later be performed by robots and artificial intelligence, rather than by human hands. This hypothetical realization has profoundly shaken the arts sector, which is the most "distant" from t...

The summer of 2023 was marked by a serious strike by creatives involved in Hollywood studios. Lasting 118 days, this situation highlighted the serious consequences brought by artificial intelligence within the arts sector. During the first weeks of 2024, the SAG-AFTRA union announced an "innovative" collaboration with...

Wizards of the Coast, the famous company behind the giants "Magic: The Gathering" and "Dungeons & Dragons," seems to have a troubled relationship with artificial intelligence. In the summer of 2023, an image contained within one of the role-playing game manuals mentioned was discovered to be generated through AI; duri...