Synthetic Media & Generative AI News and Discussions

[raklian]

Video memes will be a thing.

[Nanotechandmorefuture]

Video memes will be a thing.

The Will Smith one was actually horrifying this one is just sad imo.

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

Beijing lists the stuff it wants generative AI to censor

Wed 12 Apr 2023

As China's tech giants deploy their ChatGPT clones, Beijing has released proposed regulations for research, development and use of generative AI chatbots, without quite answering whether the tools can conform to socialist ideals.

The draft rules, published yesterday by the Cyberspace Administration of China and grandly titled Administrative Measures for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services, detail 21 articles that call for AI-generated content to “reflect the core values of socialism, and must not contain subversion of state power, overthrow of the socialist system, incitement to split the country.”

The document also lays out a firm prohibition against promoting terrorism, extremism, ethnic hatred and discrimination. Violence, obscene and pornographic information, false information, and content that may disrupt economic and social order are also prohibited.

The rules put the onus on designers of AI tools to prevent discrimination, based on race, ethnicity, belief, country, region, gender, age, occupation, through careful selection of training data, algorithm design and any other optimizations.

Users must register with their real name and those that provide generative AI services, or help other do so, will be assumed to be the producer of the content produced by the bots. That producer assumes responsibility for any related privacy measures – including those associated with personal information.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/12/ ... egulation/

[Nanotechandmorefuture]

1990s lol!

[raklian]

[weatheriscool]

[Powers]

Very fluid.

[spryfusion]

[weatheriscool]

Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinepar ... 23a06915c0

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

[caltrek]

The GOP’s AI-Generated Biden Attack Ad Really Is a Warning About the Future
by James West
April 25 , 2023

Introduction:

(Mother Jones)Today President Biden announced his reelection bid. In response, the GOP announced its further descent into the uncanny valley, with a big assist from artificial intelligence.

Presumably designed as a rebuke of Biden’s own relatively somber campaign video, the Republican offering—titled “Beat Biden”—foretells the dystopian future heralded by the incumbent’s imagined second win. It’s an all-but-unlivable hellscape of war, financial ruin, and crime. And it’s all, according to the YouTube description, rendered by artificial intelligence tools. Axios reports that “this is the first time the RNC has produced a video that is 100% AI, according to a spokesperson.”

The video itself offers a clarification baked into a watermark in the top left corner: “Built entirely with AI imagery.”

So not 100 percent. There’s music, bits of voice-over, and a ton of post-production effects (jitters and other “camera” movements, vignetting, animation, color-grading, sound effects, light flares, and more) happening in this video. But nonetheless, the production does appear to rely only on startlingly good AI imagery—replacing what would normally be general stock “b-roll,” the footage typically licensed from vast libraries to fill videos (and ads, and even works of our own MoJo journalism). One such AI image generator, Midjourney, rolled out its new model (version 5) in March, and it is capable of producing astonishingly realistic images, with a few stubborn “tells”: Despite some serious improvements, human hands are still a bit weird; extra limbs appear where they shouldn’t; and most prominently, words are rendered unreadable gobbledegook. You’ll recall the rash of stories about the fake Trump arrest photographs.

The producers behind the GOP video have done a good job concealing the AI-ness of the images, by digitally degrading the pictures to make them look more like video. When Taipei is bombed 10 seconds in, lens effects have been added to make it look like the image has been ripped from a witness’ social media account. But mysteriously, the city’s famous Taipei 101 tower sticks up at a dangerously titled angle compared to the rest of the skyline. Is it meant to be an impossibly wide-angle lens? Unclear.

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... ce-guide/

[weatheriscool]

[Powers]

0:26 <= Fail

With this the first 100% AI generated comic will be possible.

[wjfox]

[erowind]

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[caltrek]

The GOP’s AI-Generated Biden Attack Ad Really Is a Warning About the Future

I really dread that this forum was right on this one, especially Yuli many years ago. (A somber salute to him on that one.) ...

Agreed. Kudos to Yuli, our resident futurist.

[weatheriscool]

Chatbot 'journalists' found running almost 50 AI-generated content farms
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... tent-farms

Chatbots pretending to be journalists have been discovered running almost 50 AI-generated “content farms” so far, according to an investigation by the anti-misinformation outfit NewsGuard.

The websites churn out content relating to politics, health, environment, finance and technology at a “high volume”, the researchers found, to provide rapid turnover of material to saturate with adverts for profit.

“Some publish hundreds of articles a day,” Newsguard’s McKenzie Sadeghi and Lorenzo Arvanitis said. “Some of the content advances false narratives. Nearly all of the content features bland language and repetitive phrases, hallmarks of artificial intelligence.”

In total, 49 sites in seven languages – English, Chinese, Czech, French, Portuguese, Tagalog and Thai – were identified as being “entirely or mostly” generated by AI language models. Almost half the sites had no obvious record of ownership or control, and only four were able to be contacted.. .