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By Hera Rizwan A young college student was stunned to find her personal information and photos publicly shared on social media platform X by an impersonator. The shared details included her hometown, college name, intimate photos with friends, and a link to her Instagram account. The student, who had disclosed her tuition fees for online classes, saw this information misrepresented as "rates for her services" on the platform. All her publicly available information was compiled into a thread and circulated online. Distraught by the filthy messages she was receiving as a result of the violative ...
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By The Conversation Vandinika Shukla, Harvard Kennedy School and Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy SchoolAs India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies – and what lessons that holds for the rest of the world. The campaigns made extensive use of AI, including deepfake impersonations of candidates, celebrities and dead politicians. By some estimates, millions of Indian voters viewed deepfakes. But, despite fears of widespread disinformation, f...
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By Ritika Jain Journalist Rajat Sharma has had it with the many fake ads on Facebook and Instagram made with AI voice clones impersonating him to peddle weight loss drugs and medication to cure type two diabetes. The IndiaTV News chairman and editor-in-chief filed a Public Interest Litigation or PIL in the Delhi High Court last month in May seeking to stop the proliferation of deepfakes on social media in India. The PIL relies on a BOOM fact-check which found viral videos of news anchors were fake and were overlaid with voice clones promoting a diabetes medicine. “Seeing videos depicting me en...
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By Hera Rizwan Apple, on Monday, introduced "Apple Intelligence", a collection of new AI features for its popular devices, alongside a partnership with OpenAI, as it aims to keep pace with competitors advancing rapidly in the AI field. The move is said to elevate the experience of Apple products to "new heights", CEO Tim Cook said, while opening the annual Worldwide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California. The iPhone-maker is anticipated to enhance its Siri voice assistant and operating systems by integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT. Been refreshed with a new inte...
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By Hera Rizwan As Meta prepares to unveil its expansive Llama 3 AI model, indications suggest that the company has already using Instagram and Facebook data for its training. Users of these platforms are automatically enrolled to provide consent for this data usage. Although they retain the choice to opt out, the process involves multiple steps, raising potential concerns regarding data privacy. To power chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, extensive datasets are essential for training. Insufficient training data is recognized as a potential obstacle to the future development of generativ...
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By Hera Rizwan Last year before the Telangana elections, Siddhartha Chakravarthy, a 36 year old techie from Hyderabad started pitching Vako AI, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool he built, to various contesting candidates. He created the AI tool that allows voters to interact with candidates via a QR scan code, logging into a WhatsApp chatbox to inquire about their plans for the constituency, city, and development agenda. The response is not actually being typed by the candidate but generated by AI. Vako AI enables candidates to understand voter concerns and customise responses to address gr...
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By Hera Rizwan Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson, on Monday, alleged that OpenAI developed a voice for the ChatGPT system that bore a striking resemblance to her own voice, following her refusal to lend her voice to the chatbot. Johansson's remarks came in a statement issued shortly after the artificial intelligence company announced the removal of the voice, dubbed 'Sky'. She said that she was left "shocked" and "angered". OpenAI clarified that it would remove the voice, but insisted that it was not meant to be an "imitation" of the star. The company further stated that they are taking dow...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A deepfake video of actor Aamir Khan purportedly criticising an old 2013 statement made by then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of depositing Rs 15 lakh in every Indian's bank account is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claim is false, the video uses an AI voice clone of Aamir Khan; the original video is from 2014 and has been overlaid with a fake audio to depict Khan's criticism of the central government. Tools used: We noticed that the background score of the video was from the show Satyamev Jayate and scanned its YouTube channel. We found that...
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By Divya Chandra A group of fact-checkers, academicians, tech experts and policy experts came together for a panel discussion on ‘Decoding Deepfakes & Elections’ organised by BOOM’s Decode held in New Delhi on 15 April 2024. The ConsensusDeepfakes is a worrying trend.People generating mis/disinformation are only limited by their imagination since it's extremely easy to create fake stories.The technology used to create false information is better than the one used to detect it.Investment is more in the market generating deepfakes than the one detecting it.Mayank Vatsa, professor of computer sci...
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By Swasti Chatterjee Amit Malviya, Bharatiya Janata Party's IT cell head on Monday falsely claimed a video of party candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav alias Nirahua making remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath being childless, was a deepfake. In the video, Yadav the BJP candidate from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, claimed Modi and Adityanath have preferred to be childless to stop unemployment. It was posted by Indian Youth Congress President Srinivas BV on X and the same was rubbished as a deepfake by Malviya and Yadav himself. BOOM found that the video...
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