Category: AI Technology

Apple bans 3 AI apps able to create deepfake images of people without clothes

John Montgallo
AI apps - Deepfake AI Banned - Apple

The iPhone maker has removed generative artificial intelligence with capabilities for undressing Apple has removed 3 AI apps in a move that may include more as a result of a trend among certain developers that have been promoting their products as able to create deepfake pictures that show people undressed. Developers have been using social media to promote those products Developers selling these AI apps have been promoting them on social media ads, particularly on Instagram.  They make references to being able to “delete” clothing and other similar features. When…

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users can’t opt out of new AI tool

John Montgallo
AI Tool - No Opt-Out

Meta has added artificial intelligence to its platforms regardless of whether users want it Meta recently released a statement about the rollout of its AI tool across its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, saying that it is meant to be used “to get things done, learn, create and connect with the things that matter to you.” That said, it didn’t ask whether users want it there The AI tool has been incorporated into these platforms in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan, Jamaica, South Africa, Singapore, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia,…

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Artificial intelligence teams at Google to consolidate, says CEO

Sam Lambert
Artificial intelligence - Google Teams - Consolidate

Sundar Pichai has announced that the AI model development teams will be added to the DeepMind unit Google has announced that it will be consolidating internal artificial intelligence teams and bringing them into the DeepMind unit. The announcement was made by CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post The post was made on the company’s official website by the Alphabet and Google chief executive officer. There, he explained the company’s decision for consolidating the artificial intelligence model building teams into DeepMind, including the Research division teams. DeepMind was first formed…

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YouTube says no to training OpenAI Sora artificial intelligence on its videos

Sam Lambert
Artificial intelligence - YouTube on screen No OpenAI

According to the video sharing platform, training AI with the videos breaks its terms of service Using YouTube videos to train Sora, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence text-to-video generator, would break the terms of service of the platform, according to Neal Mohan, YouTube’s CEO. This represents the first time the CEO has spoken on the subject Mohan used his first public comment on the subject to add that he did not have any firsthand knowledge of whether OpenAI had indeed trained its Sora artificial intelligence powered video creator with videos from the…

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Canadian city uses AI technology to reduce recycling contamination

Jorge Gonzalez
AI Technology - Recycling Contamination

Kelowna, British Columbia used artificial technology to improve recycling bin contents by 23 percent Kelowna, a city in the Canadian province of British Columbia, has implemented AI technology and smart cameras into a new program to reduce recycling contamination in its municipal curbside recycling bin program. So far, the program resulted in a 23 percent improvement According to officials from the Central Okanagan Regional District, to which Kelowna is a part, the improvements in recycling contamination are the result of new smart cameras mounted on collection trucks and that have…

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