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Deepfakes will hijack your brain — if you let them

by F.D. Flam Realistic AI-generated images and voice recordings may be the newest threat to democracy, but they’re part of a longstanding family of deceptions. The way to fight so-called deepfakes isn’t to develop some rumor-busting form of AI or to train the public to spot fake ...

House, Senate committees advance AI child porn bills

MORGANTOWN – Legislators advanced several bills to combat “deep fake” child porn on Wednesday. The House Artificial Intelligence Committee approved HB 5516 to criminalize the use of deep fake images for child porn and for revenge porn. It defines deep fake as “a visual depiction ...

2024 Legislative session begins with new bills and Babydog

MORGANTOWN — The 2024 legislative session began Wednesday afternoon at the state Capitol. As usual, the opening floor sessions were largely formalities, but Babydog sparked a brief debate on the House floor, and the Senate continued its recent practice of accelerating passage of certain ...

NYT’s edge in suit against OpenAI

by Noah Feldman The lawsuit filed by the New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement pits one of the great establishment media institutions against the purveyor of a transformative new technology. Symbolically, the case promises a clash of the titans: ...

Small but welcome step in prying open AI’s black box

by Parmy Olson Sorry, OpenAI. The European Union is making life for the leaders of artificial intelligence much less private. A newly agreed draft of the region’s upcoming AI Act will force the maker of ChatGPT and other companies to share previously hidden details about how they ...