#21 | April 19, 2024
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Greek authorities monitor refugee camps using the Centaur system
Image: Lydia Emmanouilidou, 2023
Greece fined for AI-powered asylum centre monitoring systems
Greece’s Ministry of Migration and Asylum was rapped by the country’s data protection watchdog for ‘incomplete’ impact assessments on two EU-funded systems that use cameras, drones and motion analysis to monitor asylum-seekers.Texas exam scoring engine criticised for dumbing down students
A new AI-powered system to grade Texas' STAAR exams met with criticism and concerns from educators and teachers for its opaqueness and potential inaccuracy and bias, loss of student creativity, and impact on employment.Adobe trained Firefly AI model on competitor images
Adobe trained its image generating tool, Firefly, on images generated by competitor generative AI tools, despite marketing Firefly as a commercially safe and ethically sound image generator. Howls of hypocrisy and ethics-washing ensued.Chatbots misinform citizens about European Parliament elections
Quelle surprise: ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini tools returned incorrect election dates and information about how to cast a ballot at the European Parliament elections, according to researchers.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traumatised by deepfake porn video
Physical sexual assault survivor Ocasio-Cortez opened up to Rolling Stone about the shock she felt upon seeing a deepfake video of herself performing sexual acts online. She’s now introducing a US Congressional bill that aims to make it easier for victims of nonconsensual AI porn to sue publishers and distributors.
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System spotlight - Synthesia
UK-based Synthesia claims it is the world’s ‘#1 AI video generation platform’ and that it makes turning text to videos ‘as easy as making a slide deck.’
Synthesia can’t readily be accused of hype. Within minutes, anyone can use the company’s AI-powered stock videos to create slick and believable political misinformation, disinformation and scam campaigns.
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