The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) put out a statement on Jan. 26, 2024, hitting back at two AI scandals in recent weeks: explicit AI deepfakes of musician Taylor Swift circulating on X (formerly Twitter) and the wider internet, and a comedy special …
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Bats were once of interest mainly to specialists and devoted conservationists. But the global pandemic pushed the animals squarely into the spotlight as the apparent original source of the novel coronavirus. Now, once arcane research into the large number of viruses that live in bats has acquired a new urgency, …
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Transform 2020 Watch every session from our flagship AI event On Demand Watch Now Aside from staying alive and healthy, the biggest concern most people have during the pandemic is the future of their jobs. Unemployment in the U.S. has skyrocketed, from 5.8 million in February 2020 to 16.3 million …
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