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North Korea calls US cyber crime accusations ‘absurd slander’

North Korea calls US cyber crime accusations ‘absurd slander’

Published by Sam Flores

SEOUL: North Korea dismissed on Sunday (May 3) United States accusations that it has engaged in cyber crimes to generate illicit revenues, calling the criticism “absurd slander”. Washington has accused Pyongyang of ramping up a cyber-warfare program responsible for the theft of billions of dollars in virtual assets in recent years, turning hacking into a key source of foreign currency in the face of biting sanctions over its nuclear and weapons programmes. In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, an unnamed foreign ministry spokesperson said the US government had been “trying to spread incorrect understanding” about North Korea, “talking about the non-existent ‘cyber threat’”. “This is nothing but an absurd slander to tarnish the image of our country by spreading false information in pursuit of political purposes,” it said. The US Justice Department in April sentenced two Americans for helping North Koreans obtain remote IT work with US companies and raising more millions of dollars in illicit revenue for its weapons programmes. More than 100 US companies were targeted, including a …

Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers

Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If teachers thought rampant cheating was the worst way AI would impact their livelihoods, we’ve got some bad news. On social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, Wired reports, teenagers are using AI to create videos that ruthlessly mock their school’s faculty, sometimes even attacking their reputation, with one video flippantly labeling a teacher a “predator.” The “slander pages” that post the videos often use “looksmaxxing” lingo to denigrate the teachers, the reporting noted. Some posts receive over one hundred thousand likes, becoming a viral “in-joke” that’s cruelly blasted out to countless strangers on the internet. Where AI comes into the picture is how the students use controversial tools like Viggle AI to insert a photo of their teacher into scenes or to lip-sync their faces. In one now-removed “slander” video made with Viggle, Wired found, a teacher’s face is superimposed onto someone twitching in a bathroom. A text overlay reads, “Take fent or be useless,” referring to …

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers

Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers

Published by skeptic

The video opens with a school superintendent lip-syncing a love song, but he’s not the only performer. AI-generated versions of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein join him on the ballad—a splice between Will Joseph Cook’s “Be Around Me” and a rewrite of the song by Beth McCarthy on TikTok—with Epstein mouthing the words, “Oh my god, did he call her baby, maybe?” The clip, posted to the Instagram account @thewyliefiles, has been liked more than 107,000 times. Its caption reads like a large language model’s overview of the Wylie Independent School District in Collin County, Texas, where the singing superintendent was formerly employed, boasting about its “strong academics” and “wide range of extracurriculars.” A top comment reads, “Gem alarm!” suggesting that passersby have struck gold in their daily scroll. The skit is just one example of a new AI-video meme trend on Instagram and TikTok that students have invented to mock the school’s faculty and sometimes attack their reputations, seemingly for the sake of virality. These largely student-run accounts …