https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4442156-fcc-targets-ai-generated-robocalls-after-biden-primary-deepfake/ FCC jurisdiction https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/meta-oversight-board-reviewing-biden-video-says-deepfake-rule-incoherent-2024-02-05/ meta rule "incoherent"
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-robocall-new-hampshire-strategist-rcna139760 alex setiz-wald on alex wagner on friday 2/23 describing this as "the first known example of a malicious use of AI deepfakes in the wild in an American campaign. This hasn't happened--we've been hearing lots of warnings about it, but this is the first time it's actually come to pass." wagner: "the potential of AI to upend things" Incredibly, it is a MAGICIAN who is responsible for doing it. Also kind of wonderful that campaigns/candidates/presidents have involved actors (Reagan, Sonny Bono, Glenda Jackson?) and con men/fabulists (Trump, Santos).
Emily Martinez https://somethingnothing.me/ Unsupervised Pleasures: https://unsupervisedpleasures.com/about Corpora, queer data sets https://medium.com/processing-foundation/what-can-machine-learning-teach-us-about-ourselves-65b268431890 Intersectional AI: https://intersectionalai.miraheze.org/wiki/Intersectional_AI_Toolkit (zines and how tos) Dreaming beyond AI: https://dreamingbeyond.ai/en (what is this?) Indigenous AI: https://www.indigenous-ai.net/position-paper/ Computational mama: posenet poetry together https://computationalmama.xyz/projects/poetrytogether/
PROJECTIVE REALITY hannah baer on mythologies of intelligence
https://www.artforum.com/features/hannah-baer-on-mythologies-of-intelligence-252734/
Recent Election Incident Highlights Need for Tools that Counter Deepfakes
https://defenseopinion.com/recent-election-incident-highlights-need-for-tools-that-counter-deepfakes/521/ By David Castillo and Siwei Lyu and E. Bruce Pitman In the run up to the recent New Hampshire presidential primary, voters in the state were bombarded with what law enforcement officials suspect was an artificial intelligence-generated robocall of President Biden with the goal of suppressing the vote. “What a bunch of malarkey,” the recorded message from “Biden” begins, according to NBC News , telling recipients to stay home and “save your vote for the November election.” The robocall is a glimpse of a new era dawning in which AI is employed by bad actors as a weapon against essential institutions and functions of democracy, including elections. As the incident underscores, recent advances in artificial intelligence technologies are prompting a...
UB research; bias in deepfake detector
https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024/01/lyu-deepfake-bias.html By TOM DINKI Published January 18, 2024 Share This Print “A detection algorithm’s accuracy should be statistically independent from factors like race, but obviously many existing algorithms, including our own, inherit a bias. ” Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Professor and co-director UB Center for Information Integrity The image spoke for itself. UB computer scientist and deepfake expert Siwei Lyu created a photo collage out of the hundreds of faces that his detection algorithms had incorrectly classified as fake — and the new composition clearly had a predominantly darker skin tone. “A detection algorithm’s accuracy should be statistically independent from factors like race,” Lyu says, “but obviously many existing algorithms, including our own, inherit a bias.” Lyu, co-director of the UB Center for Information Integrity, and his team have now developed what they believe are the ...
digital "replicas"; NO FAKES act
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/hollywood-ai-digital-replicas-congress-no-fakes-act-1235625126/ Even as the issue of protecting performers from the misuse of artificial intelligence continues to vex the labor negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a second front has just opened. On Oct. 12, four U.S. Senators presented a bipartisan “discussion draft” of legislation intended to protect actors, singers and others from having AI programs generate their likenesses and voices without their informed written consent. The “Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe” (NO FAKES) Act would allow people, companies and platforms to be sued for producing or hosting so-called “digital replicas.” The NO FAKES Act is being sponsored by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Chris Coons (D-DE), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Thom Tillis (R-NC). It represents the federal government’s ...