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Two Men Charged With Creating AI-Generated Porn Under New Law Targeting ‘Deepfakes’

Two Men Charged With Creating AI-Generated Porn Under New Law Targeting ‘Deepfakes’

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities under a newly enacted law meant to halt the spread of deepfake pornography. Cornelius Shannon, 51, and Arturo Hernandez, 20, were both arrested Tuesday for generating sexually explicit AI content that drew millions of views online, according to criminal complaints. The men — who do not appear to be connected — are among the earliest defendants to face charges under the Take It Down Act, a law signed last year by President Donald Trump that adds stricter penalties for publishing AI-created deepfakes and “revenge porn.” The bill drew bipartisan support, as well as the public backing of first lady Melania Trump. Under the new law, the men now face up to two years in prison. Attorneys for Shannon and Hernandez did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a statement, Joseph Nocella, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said the men had ”used cutting-edge digital technology to create images that degraded …

AI-generated Grokipedia articles are longer, less readable, and cite fewer sources than their Wikipedia counterparts

AI-generated Grokipedia articles are longer, less readable, and cite fewer sources than their Wikipedia counterparts

Published by José Betancourt

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides evidence that automated encyclopedias differ from human-edited platforms in both structure and political leaning. The research suggests that rather than uniformly removing bias, these automated systems tend to favor longer, more complex narratives while introducing rightward shifts in certain topic areas. These findings raise questions about how artificial intelligence shapes public knowledge and source verification. In October 2025, the American technology company xAI, founded by Elon Musk, launched Grokipedia. The platform was presented as the world’s first artificial intelligence-written encyclopedia. Musk promised the platform would fix left-leaning biases alleged to exist in the widely used online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s content is written and maintained by volunteer editors. Grokipedia generates and reviews its content using a large language model, which is a type of artificial intelligence trained on vast amounts of text to predict and generate human-like language. Visitors can suggest edits, but the automated system reviews and implements the changes without traditional human editorial oversight. To evaluate these claims, researchers at …

Top Literary Magazine Offers Bizarre Response to Accusations That It Published an AI-Generated Short Story

Top Literary Magazine Offers Bizarre Response to Accusations That It Published an AI-Generated Short Story

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The literary world is being torn asunder after a prestigious magazine was accused of publishing an AI-generated short story. Titled “The Serpent in the Grove,” the story was published Saturday by Granta on its website after being chosen as the winner of the Commonwealth Foundation Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region. Judges praised the story, attributed to a writer identified as Jamir Nazir, for its “precise yet richly evocative language.” But readers immediately noticed suspicious things about its prose. Accusations rang out after Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at Wharton who researches AI’s impact on education, called out the story as machine-written in a social media post. The AI detector Pangram, he found, flagged it as 100 percent AI-generated. (While the capabilities of some AI detectors are dubious, Pangram claims it has 99 percent accuracy with a vanishingly small false positive rate.) Of course, your eyeballs are probably sufficient for sussing out AI writing, and many on …

People Are Getting Plastic Surgery to Look More AI-Generated

People Are Getting Plastic Surgery to Look More AI-Generated

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Life imitates AI art. Plastic surgeons say that more patients are coming in and asking to look like an AI-generated version of themselves with cartoonishly unrealistic features, in the latest grim sign of how the tech preys on our insecurities and even shapes beauty standards. Rachel Westbay, a cosmetic dermatologist in New York, described how one woman brought in a caricature-like image with huge doll-like eyes generated by ChatGPT.  “It’s like saying I want to look like Ariel from ‘The Little Mermaid,’” Westbay told Business Insider. “I was shocked.” She called the AI aesthetic a “Bratz doll” look, with huge lips, even bigger eyes, and a chiseled jaw. AI isn’t the first digital technology to twist people’s perception of themselves and reinforce unhealthy beauty standards. Think Snapchat filters and our current influencer-driven social media environment.  But as the disturbing rise of AI psychosis shows, AI’s power to distort our thinking and feed on our insecurities is unmatched. And unlike typical …

A popular academic journal is coming down hard on AI-generated submissions

A popular academic journal is coming down hard on AI-generated submissions

Published by skeptic

We’re still in the early stages of the AI revolution, but there’s already plenty of evidence that it won’t be purely a blessing. Generative AI has made writing exponentially faster, if not necessarily better, and the result has been a massive increase in submissions of novels, newspaper pieces, and even academic journals, with one publication even warning of a coming “swamp of slop.”  Now, however, the journals are fighting back. ArXiv, one of the largest open-access repositories of preprint academic research, is issuing a one-year ban on all authors who submit “obviously AI-generated work,” according to 404media. Moreover, if the offending author wishes to return to the good graces of ArXiv, they will have to first submit to a “reputable peer-reviewed review venue,” according to Thomas Dietterich, chair of the publication’s computer science division. SEE ALSO: The fierce battle over AI in schools He recently took to X to not only clarify the new rules but also place the onus on authors to use LLMs responsibly: “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, …

Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold

Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet painting while claiming it was an AI fake, unleashing a flood of ill-informed reactions and muddled discourse. So, you know, it was just another day online. “I just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI,” read the original post, published to X-formerly-Twitter yesterday by an anonymous conceptual artist who goes by the pseudonym “SHL0MS.” “Please describe, in as much detail as possible,” he continued, “what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting.” Commenters were quick to jump in to explain why, in their view, the alleged AI image was worse than the real work of the French impressionist master. According to one, the image was an “incoherent muddle of inconsistently saturated greens.” Another lamented that there was no “coherent composition,” while someone else shared that the painting seemed “busy, artificial, nature in turmoil, polluted.” Another …

Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Four prolific financial journalists are facing serious questions over whether they’re actually real. Welcome to digital media in 2026! An investigation by The Press Gazette found that four allegedly human freelance journalists who’ve published articles shilling specific crypto coins — in outlets including Forbes, Investing.com, HuffPost, CoinTelegraph, VentureBeat, and The Street, no less — strongly appear to be fake. And each of them, tellingly, bear striking connections to a publicity firm called MarketAcross, which on its website describes itself as offering “PR for the world’s leading blockchain companies.” Per Press Gazette, the four writers in question — their bylines identify them as Nikolai Kuznetsov, Reuben Jackson, Luis Aureliano, and Joe Liebkind — each boast headshots that are either likely-AI-generated pictures or easily-traceable stock photos. None of them have any clear online history beyond their collective financial publishing careers, which total more than 1,000 articles. The human journalists at Press Gazette also found that each writer has frequently pushed readers to …

Man set up live upskirt camera feed of woman, sent her AI-generated nude using her face

Man set up live upskirt camera feed of woman, sent her AI-generated nude using her face

Published by Sam Flores

SINGAPORE: A man sent a woman an artificial intelligence-generated photo of her face on a nude body, and set up cameras under her work desk for a live “upskirt” feed. The woman was alarmed by his actions and became fearful whenever she was approached by men as a result. Desmond Han Jiancong, a 31-year-old Singaporean, pleaded guilty on Monday (May 11) to one count each of installing equipment to enable voyeurism and insulting the modesty of the victim. Another three charges will be considered in sentencing. THE CASE The court heard that Han and the victim were acquaintances. The court imposed a gag order to protect the victim’s identity. As part of the order, the victim’s age and workplace were redacted from court papers. Han had tried asking the victim out for a meal but she declined to do so on a one-to-one basis. She asked him if he had feelings for her, and he said he merely treated her “as an older sister”. On the night of Aug 27, 2024, Han sent the victim …

Fact check: Tuition fees and AI-generated voter videos

Fact check: Tuition fees and AI-generated voter videos

Published by Sam Flores

Undergraduate tuition fees for Scottish students are typically £1,820 a year. Students need to apply annually to the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS), an executive agency of the Scottish Government that supports higher education students with information and funding, to have these fees paid directly to their university. The SAAS also covers the cost of the professional graduate diploma in education (PGDE) for eligible students, and provides tuition fee and living cost loans to students. Source link