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🎭 AI-Generated Faces Fool Most People, But Photo Training Improves Detection
https://petapixel.com/2025/12/29/ai-generated-faces-fool-most-people-but-photo-training-improves-detection/

How can you tell if your new favourite artist is a real person?
#music #aislop #ai

I keep on thinking about this so often, now mostly about how the word has been co-opted & abused by contemporary "AI"... Just refound the link (from 2012):
Generative vs generated
https://www.anomalogue.com/2012/05/01/generative-vs-generated/

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#Gentoo kann sich beim #Linux #Kernel auch nicht entscheiden, oder? >_>
"for your editing pleasure" − "Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT."

Adobe rolls out Firefly Foundry, which creates AI-generated "commercially safe" images, video, and more grounded in a brand or franchise's creative universe (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/adobe-firefly-foundry-ai-caa-wme-1236692649/…

@… 🎄
https://masto.es/@FediTree/113658815331501695

One thing that's working in the Dutch energy transition (although further development of wind and solar is now slowing down). And we're not far from seeing this happen globally either.

Adobe rolls out Firefly Foundry, which creates AI-generated "commercially safe" images, video, and more grounded in a brand or franchise's creative universe (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/adobe-firefly-foundry-ai-caa-wme-1236692649/…

my granddad is currently showing my dad ai generated videos of trump as a baby

from my link log —
“Ptolemaic Code”: software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883067614348534
saved 2026-01-20

If you tell AI not only to create your code but also your tests and demand that no test should fail you automagically get correct code – according to your tests.
Written after someone reported the AI simply generated test that always succeeded regardless of what the code did.

An iconic Scottish bird? Golden Eagle.
Bird shown on AI generated draft for a Glasgow mural? American bald eagle.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25785987.calls-stricter-ai-misuse-rules-glasgow-mural-row/
Bird o…

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
https://ift.tt/erHdv35
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the…
via Input 4 RELCFP

I have to admit it is so so easy to troll r/sanfrancisco and r/asksf. There's now AI generated bitching on both.

oooh look what i just found:-
Transform Images Into Sound in the browser
"SpectroTrace converts any image into audio using a fascinating technique called additive synthesis. When you play the generated sound through a spectrogram analyzer, the original image magically reappears." 🦟
https://www.spectrotrace.org/

Kevin O'Connell shoulders blame for Vikings blowout loss to Chargers: 'I did not have our team prepared to play' https://www.nfl.com/news/kevin-o-connell-shoulders-blame-for-vikings-blowout-loss-to-c…

The curl project plans to end its HackerOne bug bounty program at the end of January, citing a surge in low-quality AI-generated vulnerability reports (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securi…

In a world where most code in modern programming languages will be machine-generated, what is the role of an upper-level programming languages course?
Interesting and non-obvious answers please.

@… Exactly. The thought struck me as well. I suppose it's a fair presumption when a page is so reliant on generated images.

Google says replacing some article headlines with AI-generated ones is now a feature in Discover, but they can be false or fail to highlight new, relevant info (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/865168/google-says-ai-news-he…

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
https://www.theguardian.com/education/20…

[OT] NVIDIA's $1 billion bet on Nokia to rewire global telecom https://www.eetimes.com/nvidia-1-billion-bet-on-nokia-to-rewire-global-telecom/ More vendor financing to make future telecom dependent on

So much is happening in infosec, so don't fall behind. Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Cops take down alleged money-laundering operations E-Note,
--Google is suing mass texting operation Darcula,
--AI-generated social media firm Doublespeed was hacked,
--Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's messages were leaked,
--Korea launches massive probe of Coupang breach,
--Foreign pow…

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choo…

Ouch:
"I stumbled upon a bug in RNP that has been introduced when refactoring. Namely, session keys generated for PKESK are not randomized but always zero."
#RNP is #Thunderbird's implementation of #OpenPGP

Never have I seen a more pointed example of "generative AI is very good at cliché"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-m…

Category:Articles containing suspected AI-generated texts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_suspected_AI-generated_texts

Oh great, new issue spam attack on @…. People really have too much time on their hands. This time posting random images from 4chan, etc., as well as AI-generated bogus issues.
Sorry you guys have to deal with such crap.

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-now-lets-you-choo…

I'll never pay for Disney again.🤮
First they f**d up Star Wars, then Dr. Who and now they want to allow "AI" slop on their platform.
FU Disney.🖕
"During an earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that Disney was about to expand, allowing subscribers to generate and share AI-generated content."

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

To Those Who Fired or Didn't Hire Tech Writers Because of AI
https://passo.uno/reconsider/

Microsoft Open-Source Programs Office Director Stacy Haffner, and Developer Community VP Scott Hanselman announced today in the wake of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, that they have just released the source code for the games Zork 1-3 under a MIT open-source license.
"Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source"

The problem here, as the students make very clear, is not whether or not AI can be used in teaching. It's that you're selling them something they can get much cheaper and better without you.
Even if AI was the perfect teacher, this would still be a racket.

What Ticketmaster and Meta think the future of advertising looks like. Looks pretty bleak to me.
https://www.404media.co/the-future-of-advertising-is-ai-generated-ads-that-are-directly-personalized-to-you/

Has anybody actually found AI generated summaries to ever be correct or even remotely useful?

AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p93#a251112p93

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

Love how eBay descriptions are often “AI” generated now
(This disk drive is neither black nor for ThinkPads, and wtf is a “unit-type” product?)

'xmllint' is a general XML utility; I mostly use it for pretty-printing huge machine generated, single line XML files into an indented hierarchy that's almost readable so I can figure out what's wrong with them.
It can also do schema validation etc.
It's part of Gnome's libxml2.
https://

AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/

Listening to pundits talking to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ NineToNoon about their 'AI' reckons - most of them don't understand much. Their optimism is misguided. Wow. They don't get the implications on how people learn and behave. Or the fact that new LLMs are trained on content that might be mostly LLM-generated content (who can say?), with constantly declining veracity.

The headline should be: ❝AI vendor’s AI-generated analysis claims AI generated reviews for AI-generated papers at AI conference❞
To be clear, I give great credence to the claims of the humans in the article who thought they’d received an AI-generated review. I bet •they’re• correct. It’s Nature I’m coming after here.
A journalistic institution would investigate that claim, track down the reviewer in question, get to the bottom of the story. A PR outlet would just repeat some vendor’s product claims as fact and click “publish.”
Which one is Nature?
/end

One of the more famous digital investors, Marc #Andreessen, half of the #a16z name, is not only on the board of #Meta, but also investor in

"So the next time you find yourself asking why you're being inundated with AI wherever you go, remember that the answer is that someone with millions of dollars to spare paid for it on the off chance that it will yield a nice return."
(Original title: a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth)

#Grokipedia on Grokipedia:

Abschnitt Grokipedia im Artikel Grok

Grokipedia

Grokipedia is an AI-generated online encyclopedia developed by xAI, launched on October 27, 2025, as version 0.1.[114] The platform leverages Grok's large language models to dynamically generate and update articles, aiming to provide an alternative to traditional encyclopedias by addressing percei…

#Grokipedia on Grokipedia:

Abschnitt Grokipedia im Artikel Grok

Grokipedia

Grokipedia is an AI-generated online encyclopedia developed by xAI, launched on October 27, 2025, as version 0.1.[114] The platform leverages Grok's large language models to dynamically generate and update articles, aiming to provide an alternative to traditional encyclopedias by addressing percei…

I should steal junk food. Copy that.
Love the scare acronym, BTW. Y’know, I might consider taking this article seriously if they hadn't plastered it with inline clickbait ads encouraging me to wrap my doorknobs in tinfoil. #meeja #jermalisms

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

Someone ingested 2,911 Epstein documents into Google's NotebookLM. The auto-generated podcast is disturbing, but still better than most news outlets.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t2rnog2bVA_Zdf0pBQOzbns-ktMW8Kg5/view

“This is not 'spicy'. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.“
"The European Commission has announced it is looking into cases of sexually suggestive and explicit images of young girls generated by Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into social media platform X, following the introduction of a paid feature known as “Spicy Mode” last summer."

Estimating Spatially Resolved Radiation Fields Using Neural Networks
Felix Lehner, Pasquale Lombardo, Susana Castillo, Oliver Hupe, Marcus Magnor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17654 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17654 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17654
arXiv:2512.17654v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present an in-depth analysis on how to build and train neural networks to estimate the spatial distribution of scattered radiation fields for radiation protection dosimetry in medical radiation fields, such as those found in Interventional Radiology and Cardiology. Therefore, we present three different synthetically generated datasets with increasing complexity for training, using a Monte-Carlo Simulation application based on Geant4. On those datasets, we evaluate convolutional and fully connected architectures of neural networks to demonstrate which design decisions work well for reconstructing the fluence and spectra distributions over the spatial domain of such radiation fields. All used datasets as well as our training pipeline are published as open source in separate repositories.
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"Sweden’s Secondhand Shopping Mall Shows Sustainable Retail Can Be Profitable"
#Sweden #Shopping #Retail

Welp, from my PoV, all sides are wrong.
There is a difference between bug reports generated by AI to spam curl devs and AI generated bug reports sent by Google to FFmpeg devs that are accurate. Calling them slop is hardly true.
"We would rather not know there is a vulnerability in our software" is a terrible take.
Also, I would like to say that maybe it is unreasonable for a software with so little funding to want to support all codecs that were ever invented becaus…

The 2025 Web Almanac mistook me.
I did *not* say LLMs provide better image descriptions. I cited SeeingAI and Be My Eyes as tools for undescribed IRL uses.
I said LLM-generated captions could be better than craptions. I mentioned abstracts / reading-level changes, which could be summaries?
But “better” image descriptions is right out.

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/16/x-still-allowing-sexualised-images-grok-ai-nudification

I bought something on eBay. The Chinese vendor generated a tracking number in one business day--excellent!
The tracking number goes to a Chinese shipping company, of course. A dead web site, in fact. Less of course. Less confidence building.

I thought that surely I would find a thread somewhere where people recommend a specific power adapter to power their iot crap.
I don't want to buy random crap from amazon made by companies with the name generated by pwgen

AI generated pages explaining things, that cite other AI generated pages that just hallucinated details. Web's unusable.

Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/amazon-prime-video-ai-video-…

from my link log —
Performance improvement on front-end generated by rustdoc.
https://blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/2021-01-22 Performance improvement on front-end generated by rustdoc
saved 2021-01-28

I was sent a link to slowinternet.info and it's interesting how off-putting the images are to me. I struggle to take in the message because of how angered I am by the AI-generated pictures, which are clearly mashed up using art from Simon Stålenhag.

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html

Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/amazon-prime-video-ai-video-…

PVS-Studio blog writer Georgii Tormozov summarizes a long list of improvements made to Microsoft's next LTS (and anniversary release) .NET 10. This overview highlights support for C# 14, performance enhancements, new libraries (including post-quantum crypto.), runtime and SDK. A good read to keep up with the latest and greatest in .NET.
"What's new in .NET 10"

Instead of invasive electrodes (Neuralink Blindsight) or ultrasound ( invasive irreversible gene therapy and/or neural dust, Merge Labs), The vOICe vision BCI uses audible sound and is completely noninvasive https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm and it works, gives functional v…

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says creators can generate Shorts using their AI likenesses later in 2026, but offers few details, and touts AI tools like game makers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/864610/youtube-shorts-ai-likenesses-neal-mohan-…

California also wants #xAI to abide the law.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/california-ag-sends-musks-xai-a-cease-and-desist-order-…

Business Insider joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace pilot, which compensates publishers when their content is used in AI-generated results (Barbara Peng/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/announcing-our-new-ai-partnersh…

User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
—
Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.

McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company Sweetshop, after backlash that the ad is distasteful (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…

New #ThingUmbrella example to create a parametric, grid layout-based calibration sheet for black and white photography development. The sheet includes different swatches and gradients to measure results/responses of different exposure times and developer solutions/processes. The sheet also includes a placeholder for a custom test image to be added later...
All sheet components are pa…

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says creators will be able to generate Shorts using their own AI likenesses starting in 2026 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/864610/youtube-shorts-ai-likenesses-neal-mohan-2026

Ventures launched by the Trump family since Donald Trump’s reelection have generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the Trump family.
With investments across sectors like real estate, hospitality, media, cryptocurrency and more,
the Trumps are “increasingly integrating their business empire”
into the wider U.S. economy,
says David Uberti, who has been reporting on the family’s self-enrichment for The Wall Street Journal.
The coupling of T…

"People should not "blindly trust" everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet told the BBC.
In an exclusive interview, chief executive Sundar Pichai said that AI models are "prone to errors" and urged people to use them alongside other tools.
Mr Pichai said it highlighted the importance of having a rich information ecosystem, rather than solely relying on AI technology."

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"

McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…

Analysis: the Trump family has generated about $1.4B from crypto projects since Trump's inauguration a year ago, making up about one-fifth of their fortune (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-20/donal…

Sources: WaPo's top standards editor decried "frustrating" errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, announced this week for users of its mobile app (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/11/2025

Google says the Gemini app is now able to detect images made by Google AI, with plans to roll out verification of video and audio (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824786/google-gemini-synthid-ai-image-detection

Bob Iger says upcoming changes to Disney include "game-like features" and "mostly short-form" user-generated content made with generative AI (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Bandcamp bans music and audio that is "generated wholly or in substantial part by AI", hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)
https://www.webpronews.com/bandcamp-bans-ai-generated-music…

Bandcamp bans music and audio that is "generated wholly or in substantial part by AI", hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)
https://www.webpronews.com/bandcamp-bans-ai-generated-music…

Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20…

The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/new-zealand-ocham…

Internal tests show WaPo launched its AI podcast feature despite 68% of generated scripts failed its standards, saying it would "iterate through" the issues (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/14/2025

Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/xai-california-elon-musk-deepfakes-child…

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts "we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie" within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/roku-c…

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or "nudifying" images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Elon Musk claims he was "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country (Reuters)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/14/elon-musk-grok-ai-explicit-…

X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK says it has requested related info from X (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/india-eu-investigate-m…

California AG Rob Bonta launches an investigation into xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by Grok (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/14/california-to-investigate-elon-musks-…

Teneo survey of 350 public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than their cost, and more (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ceos-to-…