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Global tech companies have been gathering in Shanghai in China this week for GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) to showcase the latest mobile technology - with a focus this year on AI, the future of 5G and driving industry collaboration. "MWC has something for everybody, whether it's AI-embedded consumer electronics, AR glasses, or the newest AI solutions," said John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA. Last year's event attracted nearly 37,000 people from 115 countries and territories, including policymakers and business leaders from the mobile ecosystem and beyond. This year's is expected to deliver a higher...
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By Hera Rizwan Vikas*, a wholesale vegetable dealer from Bareilly, came across an Instagram ad featuring Shah Rukh Khan promoting a Telegram channel of a match predictor named ‘Zain CBTF’. The video seemingly of the Bollywood actor refers to Zain as the “god of betting prediction”, boasting about Zain's impressive streak of predicting winning IPL teams. The ad claims Zain had to flee to Nepal as “several bookies were after his life”, but still runs the Telegram channel helping people mint money out of betting. Vikas took the bait and joined the Telegram channel. He placed a bet on an IPL match...
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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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Deepfakes have become a tool used by cybercriminals, hacktivists, fake news outlets and others faster than expected, according to a new report Released on Thursday by the deepfake-monitoring company Sensity, the report looks at the state of different threats posed by the technology. “Cybercriminals, hacktivists, adversarial countries, fraudsters, fake news outlets, and cyber soldiers have quickly incorporated AI technologies into their attack and deception frameworks, faster than anyone in the public and private sectors expected,” the intro to the report read. Founded in 2018, the European com...
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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 Nidhi Jacob India conducted the world's largest democratic exercise in seven phases between April 19 and June 1, 2024. Over the last three months (March 1 to May 31), BOOM analysed 258 election-related fact-checks in English, Hindi and Bangla. Of the total debunked fact-checks, 43% (111 fact-checks) involved old and unrelated election-related videos and images being falsely presented as recent. Additionally, 10 fact-checks addressed claims of rigging electronic voting machines (EVMs), 12 involved AI-generated fabricated information, and 10 contained communal content. 18 out of the total fac...
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By Archis Chowdhury In the beginning of April, Meta revamped its rules on AI-generated content and deepfakes, and announced the labelling of AI-generated video, audio and images with "Made with AI". In India, Meta platforms has since been flooded with political deepfakes, but the "Made with AI" label is nowhere to be seen. Political parties have been using AI to target their opponents for months, and appear to have free rein on Facebook and Instagram, with their official and proxy pages riddled with deepfakes, often shared as satire. Celebrities and politicians have become fair game for memes ...
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By Archis Chowdhury An AI-generated phone conversation between AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal and YouTuber Dhruv Rathee is being shared on social media as a real conversation between the two. In the viral clip, Maliwal can be heard explaining to Rathee how she was assaulted in front of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and his wife Sunita Kejriwal, and also requesting Rathee not to make a video on it. The two then goes on to discuss whether Rathee's 'payments' were coming in time. BOOM consulted with two different AI detection tools - Itisaar and Contrails - with both confirming to us the audio going...
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By Srijanee Chakraborty A video featuring AI-generated voice clones of cardiac surgeon Dr Devi Shetty and a news anchor is circulating with false claims that the former was beaten up on air by a pharmaceutical company representative for promoting a natural cure for cardiovascular diseases. The video also contains unrelated visuals of a fight caught on live television to claim that Dr Shetty was punched by the representative on his face. BOOM found that an AI voice clone of Dr Devi Shetty has been used to promote a plant-based drug for hypertension and high blood pressure. The video, with an Aa...
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