"A Full Fact investigation has found that a series of social media accounts have been using AI-generated deepfakes of real doctors and academics—including Professor Taylor-Robinson—to promote health products with bogus endorsements.

The result is a growing wave of AI-driven misinformation that risks damaging the reputations of those it impersonates, and could lead to people making decisions about their health based on fake claims."

https://fullfact.org/health/academics-deepfaked-tiktok-wellness-nest/

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedVideos #DeepFakes #TikTok #Instagram

Hello #fediverse,
I have a question. Because everyone is integrating these stupid chatbots for "summaries", I am very skeptical of having my work circulating, even just internally within the university cohort, because I don't want my stuff to be fed to LLMs.
Is there a way to export these files in a was that when people feeds them to their "assistants" the assistants' dataset gets "poisoned" and can scrap it properly?

#FediTips #AI #generativeAI #Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter

"A Full Fact investigation has found that a series of social media accounts have been using AI-generated deepfakes of real doctors and academics—including Professor Taylor-Robinson—to promote health products with bogus endorsements.

The result is a growing wave of AI-driven misinformation that risks damaging the reputations of those it impersonates, and could lead to people making decisions about their health based on fake claims."

https://fullfact.org/health/academics-deepfaked-tiktok-wellness-nest/

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedVideos #DeepFakes #TikTok #Instagram

"A Full Fact investigation has found that a series of social media accounts have been using AI-generated deepfakes of real doctors and academics—including Professor Taylor-Robinson—to promote health products with bogus endorsements.

The result is a growing wave of AI-driven misinformation that risks damaging the reputations of those it impersonates, and could lead to people making decisions about their health based on fake claims."

https://fullfact.org/health/academics-deepfaked-tiktok-wellness-nest/

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedVideos #DeepFakes #TikTok #Instagram

«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667

@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut

#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work

"AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets.

Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta's recent earnings call, words like "capacity" and AI "infrastructure" were frequently used. Google just announced that it wants to eventually build them in space. The question remains: will the revenue generated from data centers ever justify all the capital expenditure?

On the "Decoder" podcast, Krishna concluded that there was likely "no way" these companies would make a return on their capex spending on data centers.

Couching that his napkin math was based on today's costs, "because anything in the future is speculative," Kirshna said that it takes about $80 billion to fill up a one-gigawatt data center.

"Okay, that's today's number. So, if you are going to commit 20 to 30 gigawatts, that's one company, that's $1.5 trillion of capex," he said.

Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-ceo-says-no-way-103010877.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #IBM #DataCenters #AIBubble

There's now an AI warning notice browser plugin for itch.io as well as Steam https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/theres-now-an-ai-warning-notice-browser-plugin-for-itch-io-as-well-as-steam/

#AI #itch #GenerativeAI

Hello #fediverse,
I have a question. Because everyone is integrating these stupid chatbots for "summaries", I am very skeptical of having my work circulating, even just internally within the university cohort, because I don't want my stuff to be fed to LLMs.
Is there a way to export these files in a was that when people feeds them to their "assistants" the assistants' dataset gets "poisoned" and can scrap it properly?

#FediTips #AI #generativeAI #Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter

This is a genuinely good idea, and I'd urge you to sign it. Make #AI generated works immediately identifiable. It would be interesting also to require a similar 'watermark' in generated texts -- perhaps a particular sequence of whitespace characters.

#generativeAI

H/t @LillyHerself

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690/

"AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets.

Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta's recent earnings call, words like "capacity" and AI "infrastructure" were frequently used. Google just announced that it wants to eventually build them in space. The question remains: will the revenue generated from data centers ever justify all the capital expenditure?

On the "Decoder" podcast, Krishna concluded that there was likely "no way" these companies would make a return on their capex spending on data centers.

Couching that his napkin math was based on today's costs, "because anything in the future is speculative," Kirshna said that it takes about $80 billion to fill up a one-gigawatt data center.

"Okay, that's today's number. So, if you are going to commit 20 to 30 gigawatts, that's one company, that's $1.5 trillion of capex," he said.

Krishna also referenced the depreciation of the AI chips inside data centers as another factor: "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it," he said."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-ceo-says-no-way-103010877.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #IBM #DataCenters #AIBubble

There's now an AI warning notice browser plugin for itch.io as well as Steam https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/theres-now-an-ai-warning-notice-browser-plugin-for-itch-io-as-well-as-steam/

#AI #itch #GenerativeAI

Boss: "I order you to save time by using AI to do the grunt work of summarizing meetings."

Me: "copilot, summarize the meeting we just had and list the technologies used to integrate our two systems."

We use 2 technologies.

Copilot has given me a list of 10.

We don't use any of them.

#generativeAI

This is a genuinely good idea, and I'd urge you to sign it. Make #AI generated works immediately identifiable. It would be interesting also to require a similar 'watermark' in generated texts -- perhaps a particular sequence of whitespace characters.

#generativeAI

H/t @LillyHerself

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690/

Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @ketan to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/304_data_centers_are_a_climate_enemy_w_ketan_joshi

#tech #climate #datacenters #ai #generativeai #climatechange

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.

When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

https://disconnect.blog/a-tech-critics-guide-to-holiday-gift-giving/

#tech #christmas #blackfriday #gifts #giftguide #holidays #alexa #generativeai #meta #ring

«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 This paper redirects attention to those workers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36667

@milamiceli
@timnitGebru
@DAIR
@alex
@Weizenbaum_Institut

#Paper #AI #IA #IAgenerativa #generativeAI #data #workers #datacenters #labor #work

Tech giants are building loads of hyperscale data centers to power generative AI. What happened to their climate pledges?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @ketan to discuss the greenwashing of data centers and how they’re driving fossil fuel demand.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/304_data_centers_are_a_climate_enemy_w_ketan_joshi

#tech #climate #datacenters #ai #generativeai #climatechange

"Victoria’s stilted email, and a closer read of the original pitch, revealed what should have been clear from the start: with its rote phrasing (“This story matters because of… It is timely because of… It fits your readership because of…”), it had all the hallmarks of an AI-generated piece of writing.

I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it. Worse, the reason the pitch had been appealing to me to begin with was likely because a large language model somewhere was remixing my own prompt asking for stories where “health and money collide,” flattering me by sending me back what I wanted to hear.

But if Victoria’s pitch appeared to be an AI-generated fabrication, and if she was making up interviews and bylines, what to make of her long list of publications?

Since 2022, the byline “Victoria Goldiee” has been attached to dozens of articles. There are a series of “as-told to” stories in Business Insider. (“I’m a 22-year-old Amazon delivery driver. The cameras in my truck keep me on high alert, but it’s my dream job and the flexible hours are great,” is a novel take on Amazon’s labour practices). There had been an interview with the comic actor Nico Santos in Vogue Philippines, a feature on Afrobeats in RollingStone Africa (no longer on the site), a product recommendation for a DVD drive in New York Magazine’s The Strategist, and, in the past two years, a move away from culture writing to meatier features."

https://thelocal.to/investigating-scam-journalism-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Media #Journalism #News #ScamJournalism #AISlop