Synthetic Media & Generative AI News and Discussions

[wjfox]

[zzz]

https://stock.adobe.com/images/an-allig ... /708291962

[firestar464]

I could totally see Donald and friends do that

[firestar464]

[firestar464]

Bloomberg- Trump Signs Bill Cracking Down on Deepfake Revenge Porn

https://archive.ph/8opPU

[firestar464]

Fuel your creativity with new generative media models and tools: Introducing Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/gener ... s-io-2025/

[spryfusion]

[firestar464]

[wjfox]

[spryfusion]

Project page: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance

[firestar464]

Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement

https://www.reuters.com/business/media- ... 025-06-11/

Tbf, these companies have a point. This shouldn't be allowed so as long as it doesn't fall under fair use/parody. I believe a clear Midjourney watermark could resolve a lot of these issues+ refusal to generate if it isn't obvious satire

[firestar464]

[firestar464]

[firestar464]

New "Ethical" LLMs accede to the demands of copyright owners – but not necessarily those of Wikipedians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ikipedians

Absolutely damning oped on the anti-AI movement, IMHO.

Big corpos be getting artists to fight their battles for them while laughing their asses off (said artists think they're being "anti-corporation")

[firestar464]

[wjfox]

[caltrek]

State Department Indicates an AI Voice Was Used to Impersonate Marco Rubio in Messages to High-level Officials

By Abigail Williams and Kevin Collier
July 8, 2025

Introduction:

(NBC News) An unknown individual or group using artificial intelligence impersonated Secretary of State Marco Rubio to contact at least five high-level government officials in mid-June, according to a State Department cable obtained by NBC News.

The cable was first reported by The Washington Post.

“The actor likely aimed to manipulate targeted individuals using Al-generated text and voice messages, with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts,” the memo said.

At least three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress all received outreach from the fake Rubio, the cable said. It sent at least one of the targets a text message urging them to speak on Signal, and sent Signal voice messages to at least two of them.

The sender used the display name [email protected], which is not a functional email address, as their Signal nickname. Signal allows users to choose their own nickname, and such a nickname would not necessarily mean that the user has access to that email address.

Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ ... a217555

[spryfusion]

[raklian]

Wow, this one probably the closest thing to crossing the uncanny valley for me.

[weatheriscool]