Meta AI researchers unveil Encodec, a neural network trained to compress audio at a ~10x rate compared with the MP3 format at 64Kbps, without a loss in quality (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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Report: Bruce Willis sold his “digital twin” likeness rights to Deepcake, for use in ads and possibly even movies; a Russian ad already used a Willis deepfake  —  Tech will allow Willis’ doppelgänger to continue working despite language disorder diagnosis.

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DeviantArt announces DreamUp, a text-to-image generator based on Stable Diffusion, drawing intense criticism from its artist community  —  Confused artists discover their work will be used for AI training by default.  —  On Friday, the online art community DeviantArt announced DreamUp …

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Nvidia says its H100 Tensor Core GPU, using the Hopper architecture, is in full production and will begin shipping in October in products from eight vendors  —  Nvidia’s H100 “Hopper” GPU is in full production, eight major vendors shipping products soon.  —  At today’s GTC conference keynote …

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With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you’re one of the billions …

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With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you’re one of the billions …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make life-wrecking deepfakes with a few photos of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you’re one of the billions …