Digital world

  The rise in deepfake images continues to go strong and that’s one reason why tech giants are concerned as the election period is set to take center stage in the US and around the globe. Plenty of people were seen expressing serious concern on this front and that’s probably why Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI have united on this front. The news is even more concerning now than ever as AI-generated images of the leading star Taylor Swift started to flood across the popular X social media network. Some reports went on to delineate how pictures produced on this front were done through Microsoft’s popular AI picture generator called Designer. Remember, this year is the year where the US is set to get a new head of the nation and there happens to be even more concern linked to AI deepfake pictures being used negatively to influence voters throughout the election period. This is why tech giants feel it’s better now than ever to make use of the best resources to combat using AI techn...

  The number of incidents involving AI technology giving rise to misleading content has been on the rise for months. A recent incident that gained massive attention around the world had to do with music sensation Taylor Swift where deepfake pictures of the star went viral, causing great concern. It featured the most explicit category of images and before we knew it, the internet was flooded with such an ordeal. This was the time when we saw software giant Microsoft enter the line of fire as the culprit behind the act made use of Microsoft Designer to get the images. The firm elaborated more on this front and how it saw no proof of the act arising from its precincts but it did manage to make further changes to its system to avoid such acts from arising in the first place. The goal was to enhance text filtering and address matters about service misuse from the software giant. Today, the company’s head has decided to elaborate more on this front through a post published on  Micro...

  Popular news site Semafor has just rolled out a powerful AI-based editorial tool  dubbed Signals . The tool is said to make use of AI-based research, attaining help from Microsoft’s Bing and ChatGPT. What users get in the end is a news feed from various sources around the globe, as mentioned by the startup on Monday. Microsoft is providing full sponsorship for Signals and also rolling out a disguised amount in the name of funding, as mentioned by  The Financial Times . It created the customized AI bot so that journalists can benefit from this OpenAI platform as well as Bing. Meanwhile, Site Editors spoke about the findings arising from the chatbot and how it was able to generate all kinds of accurate answers, produce synopses, and also cite sources if need be. Meanwhile, another post was found on X where the editor-in-chief spoke about the great efforts involved in bettering the digital media landscape that’s been  broken  for years. They spoke about how AI to...

  Software giant Microsoft just confirmed how it was rolling out ads for its much-talked-about Copilot AI Assistant. For those who might not be aware, the famous initiative is called Copilot Pro and gives rise to a series of extra perks as well as enhancements. This includes the likes of more access to GPT-4 Turbo, customized GPTs, and the integration of Office into the rollout too. Now, there are discussions about how there seems to be a new upgrade as this makeshift change of ads being launched on the AI tool takes center stage. Critics claim the tech giant is really pushing the pedal on this endeavor and that means we’re soon to see more revenue getting generated through this means as it arrives to Windows 11 very soon. The tech giant wishes to make sure each Windows 11 user is well aware of how Copilot Pro works so it’s all decided from the start how ads would be rolled out across the Settings tab of the app as well as the Home Page. Photos:  PhantomOcean3/X This also mean...

  The American Justice Department and the FTC have both been raising serious concerns related to software giant Microsoft’s collaboration with OpenAI. Seeing the company invest millions and grow quite close to the ChatGPT maker was already on many people’s minds in terms of how that could serve to eliminate competition in today’s market. Now, we’re getting to hear so much more on this front including how a power struggle has been attained by both the DOJ and the FTC in terms of who gets to scrutinize the companies. The report comes to us thanks to media outlet  Politico  who added recently how both of these agencies were excited to start the rounds of investigation and why Microsoft is so keen on being involved with the AI firm. They hoped to better gauge what sort of competition this could have in today’s AI industry which continues to flourish as we speak. A lot of antitrust behavior was noted too and now, neither plan on giving up jurisdiction on this front was said to...