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FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives' Voice To Steal Your Money

Futurism 26 Mar 2023
Clone Con. Anecdotal accounts were already abound of people losing money to scammers cloning the voices of their relatives. Now, it's apparently become enough of a prevalent — and serious — issue that federal regulators feel the need to step in ... "When the scammer calls you, he'll sound just like your loved one." Grandma Grifter ... No One's Safe ... ....
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Government Working to Punish Companies That Make It Hard to Cancel Subscriptions

Futurism 26 Mar 2023
Subscription Breakers. Tired of those pesky subscriptions that sound like a great deal, but make it incredible difficulty to cancel? That practice may become punishable by law, thanks to a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule proposal that just dropped ... Khan said in the release ... Type Option Negative ... Pitch Perfect ... More on government rules ... ....
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Researchers Pleasantly Surprised That Only One New Yorker Attacked Their Cute Trash-Collecting Robots

Futurism 26 Mar 2023
I New York. New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being warm and fuzzy, so researchers were pleasantly surprised when only a few were rude to some trash-collecting robots deployed in Greenwich Village ... At one point, a little girl is even seen walking up to the robot, blowing it a kiss, and then waving goodbye. Fuggedaboutit ... More on robots. Study ... ....
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We're in Awe of This Massive Tornado of Plasma on the Surface of the Sun

Futurism 26 Mar 2023
Planet Dwarfer. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has spotted an absolutely towering tornado roaring on the surface of the Sun, raging with swirls of plasma to such astounding heights that even our entire planet is humbled by its scale ... "I can't imagine a more hellish place." ... I can't imagine a more hellish place. pic.twitter.com/dewzNEAEJA ... ....
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Harvard Physicist Preparing Expedition to Recover Possible Alien Artifact

Futurism 25 Mar 2023
Set For Sea. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb — yep, the Oumuamua guy — hasn't given up on his quest to recover what he believes could be a potential alien artifact at the bottom of the Pacific ... "We have a boat. We have a dream team, including some of the most experienced and qualified professionals in ocean expeditions," Loeb announced in a Medium post.
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Elon Musk Reportedly Tried to Take Over OpenAI Several Years Ago, But Failed

Futurism 25 Mar 2023
Tea's Hot ... And honestly, most of what Musk has had to say about the firm lately has been pretty fair. He's taken to Twitter several times now to criticize the now-not-so-open-OpenAI for going back on its non-profit, open-source roots, a grievance that's been widely echoed elsewhere within the industry. A valid complaint indeed ... Check Please ... READ MORE.
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AI Company With Zero Revenue Raises $150 Million

Futurism 25 Mar 2023
Profit, Shmofit. With the help of a brand new $150 million dollar cash infusion from Andreessen Horowitz, a 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue ... "The potential use cases," he added, "are infinite." Lessons Learned ... So, you know, learning lessons ... READ MORE.
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NEWS BYTES 230324 HEADLINE NEWS SCAN

Bitchute 24 Mar 2023
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Google's Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

Futurism 24 Mar 2023
Cursed Ping Pong. Here's a nightmare scenario for our digital futures ... We're not there quite yet. But we did just get a glimpse of what that might look like ... And mind you, this all happened just one day after Bard's release. And away we go! Opposite Day ... Oh, and that first news article even called Bard's original mishap an "obvious mistake." ... READ MORE ... .
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Donald Trump Shares Slightly Misfigured AI-Generated Image of Himself Praying

Futurism 24 Mar 2023
Livin' on a Prayer. As America's upcoming election cycle continues to take shape, one thing's for sure. fans of former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump love themselves some image generators, and they're not afraid to use 'em. Trump, in fact, isn't afraid to hit the share button on AI-generated fan art of himself, either ... Welp ... .
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New Videogame Facial Animation Is So Realistic It's in the Uncanny Valley

Futurism 24 Mar 2023
Next Level. MetaHuman Animator, the next-gen version of Epic Games' MetaHuman avatar tool, is here — and we gotta say, it looks pretty remarkable. Epic's MetaHuman tool, which was first unveiled back in 2021, was already impressively good at generating hyperrealistic avatars of people ... But not anymore, it seems ... Yes, seriously ... Hellblade II ... READ MORE.
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Google's Bard Credibly Accused of Plagiarizing Without Credit

Futurism 24 Mar 2023
Red Handed. On Wednesday, we reported that Google's finally unveiled Bard AI wasted no time to start spewing ridiculous conspiracy theories and fabricating non-existent citations to back them up. But as it turns out, citing bogus sources is just the beginning of its problems ... "Yes, what I did was a form of plagiarism," the AI said. Jargon Copy ... ....
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Ubisoft Develops Tool to Crank Out Video Game Dialogue Using AI

Futurism 24 Mar 2023
Bark With Bite. Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game developers known for titles like the "Assassin's Creed" franchise, is moving to partially automate writing in-game dialog by developing an AI tool called Ghostwriter. In video games, non-player characters (NPCs) often speak in what are known as "barks" ... Dicey Dialogue ... Forget ChatGPT ... ....
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Boring Scientists Say Strange "Oumuamua" Space Object Wasn't Alien, Just Gassy

Futurism 24 Mar 2023
Move Over, Oumuamua. Remember Oumuamua, that weird and allegedly alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017, when we were all so young and starry-eyed? Now, some scientists have a new and boring explanation for what it was — and reader, it may have nothing to do with aliens ... that Oumuamua — which means "scout" in Hawaiian — was alien in origin.
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