AI Reading for Tuesday November 5
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Last-minute election deepfakes gain traction. - AlterNet.
MLK deepfake deleted, not clear if by the poster or by Twitter. - X (formerly Twitter)
AI vs. reality. Despite the horror of massive quantities of extremist content being mainstreamed by Elon Musk and Twitter (now he’s actively reposting militia Telegram / 4chan memes), it could have gone even worse. In the future we might see completely fake ultra-realistic videos flooding the zone. Many people don’t seem to be properly repulsed by contemptible lack of scruples in pursuit of an assault on democracy, and pursuit of cash and political power. But I think most normal people still recognize it for what it is.
OpenAI Moves Forward to Become For-Profit Company with Regulator Talks - Yahoo Finance
ChatGPT Search considered unreliable with very short queries containing a few words. - TechCrunch
Apple Explores Push Into Smart Glasses Tethered to iPhones. Cheap Vision Pro rumored shelved. - Bloomberg
Claude AI paid users can now talk to it about PDFs. - ZDNET
"Hey Claude with computer use, watch this construction site video & write up things you see that are dangerous or good, create a spreadsheet of critical issues to address" (sped up) - X (formerly Twitter)
The big Hollywood movie that used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright - Ars Technica
Protected bees nixed a Meta data center that was supposed to go up near a nuclear plant. - The Register
Schneier: “Remember the early decades of this century when software was full of vulnerabilities? That’s before the AIs found them all. Wow, that was a crazy time.” - Schneier on Security
Creating textbooks with embedded physics simulations - YouTube
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