SF News Local Woman Bilked Out of Thousands After Scammers Clone Daughter’s Voice With AI An East Bay mother recently answered a call from an unknown number, which turned out to be scammers using AI and deepfake technology to sound like her daughter, whom they said had been kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel — part of a growing trend of scams.
Business & Tech Teens Sue xAI, Allege Grok Was Used to Create Sexualized Deepfakes A class action lawsuit has been filed against Elon Musk’s xAI by three teenagers who say the company deliberately allowed its Grok software to power third-party apps to create nonconsensual nudes and sexually explicit images of them and 18 others as minors.
Business & Tech xAI's Grok Being Blocked, Investigated By Multiple Countries Over the Creation of Sexualized Deepfakes Elon Musk's no-holds-barred AI chatbot Grok is again having one of its holds barred as regulators across the globe are balking at its widespread production of sexualized images, based on real images posted to X.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues the Websites That Are Cranking Out AI Deepfake Pornography The first government lawsuit against websites and apps creating deepfake AI nude images of people is coming from right here in San Francisco, as City Attorney David Chiu is suing the top 16 purveyors of fake nude images created without the subjects' consent.
Business & Tech Sure Enough, OpenAI Is Considering Allowing Its Tools to Generate Porn The artificial intelligence company OpenAI is considering allowing its tools to “responsibly” create AI-generated NSFW content, though it's hard to imagine users would have many goals other than to create a tidal wave of deepfake pornography.
Business & Tech X and Other Platforms Restrict Searches for ‘Taylor Swift’ As Deepfake Pornography of Her Goes Viral Graphic AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift have snowballed on social media platforms from X to Meta to Reddit, exposing the limits of their content moderation and lack of legislation.
Business & Tech Facebook Bans Some Deepfakes, But Not Those Made for 'Satire' In a seemingly cynical and tactical move ahead of another congressional hearing, Facebook announced today that it is officially banning intentionally manipulated video aimed at misinforming the public, a.k.a. deepfakes.
