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Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/schumer-art

GOP uses AI-generated video in anti-Schumer ad
Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown. The 30-second digital ad from the National Republican Senate Committee features the Democratic New York senator appearing to say on camera about the shutdown, now in its 3rd week, “Every day gets better for us.” …

Senior Microsoft Product Manager Wendy Breiding discusses in this recent post how you can now customize your IDE to include agentic AI to your project that is focused on tasks related to a specific language or UI stack, in this case: C# and WinForms. The results have been positive when comparing these agents to previous more general approaches.
"Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert"

Pinterest adds new tools to let users limit how much AI-generated content they see in their feed in certain categories, including beauty, art, and home decor (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/pinterest-ad…

Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of 'AI slop' in your feed | TechCrunch
Pinterest is rolling out new controls that let users limit how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The company is also making its AI content labels more visible.

The Oatmeal comic about "AI" "art" is great, but I have to critize the "I like AI, I use AI" part; there's a selection bias at work—he sees the generated "art" as very obviously for what it is, (dehumanizing low-effort slop) but doesn't make the logical conclusion that this is true for _any type of output_ (e.g. text); it always dehumanizing low-effort slop that's not worth looking at, listening to or reading.

Bring the Apple, Not the Sofa: Impact of Irrelevant Context in Embodied AI Commands on VLA Models
Daria Pugacheva, Andrey Moskalenko, Denis Shepelev, Andrey Kuznetsov, Vlad Shakhuro, Elena Tutubalina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07067

Bring the Apple, Not the Sofa: Impact of Irrelevant Context in Embodied AI Commands on VLA Models
Vision Language Action (VLA) models are widely used in Embodied AI, enabling robots to interpret and execute language instructions. However, their robustness to natural language variability in real-world scenarios has not been thoroughly investigated. In this work, we present a novel systematic study of the robustness of state-of-the-art VLA models under linguistic perturbations. Specifically, we evaluate model performance under two types of instruction noise: (1) human-generated paraphrasing a…

Whenever I see a piece of AI-generated art on LinkedIn or a corporate site, 1% of my joy for that day flies away and disappears, looking for greener and more artistically-fulfilling pastures.
Whoosh. There it goes again.

Bias beyond Borders: Global Inequalities in AI-Generated Music
Ahmet Solak, Florian Gr\"otschla, Luca A. Lanzend\"orfer, Roger Wattenhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01963

Bias beyond Borders: Global Inequalities in AI-Generated Music
While recent years have seen remarkable progress in music generation models, research on their biases across countries, languages, cultures, and musical genres remains underexplored. This gap is compounded by the lack of datasets and benchmarks that capture the global diversity of music. To address these challenges, we introduce GlobalDISCO, a large-scale dataset consisting of 73k music tracks generated by state-of-the-art commercial generative music models, along with paired links to 93k refer…

It’s so yellow and ugly why do people like it I don’t get it.
At least the AI generated art on Pinterest blends in so well it’s hard to catch sometimes.
But the people making “illustrations” for business contexts don’t even try.