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AI-Generated Spoofs of RuPaul’s Drag Race Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok
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Now in its 16th season, RuPaul’s Drag Race has birthed more than a few iconic lip-sync battles, but precious few have featured Muppets. None, even. AI Drag Race changed that. In the Instagram account’s recent season finale, Miss Piggy, wearing an AI-generated drag look, faced off against lover-turned-rival Kermisha Ihman, who had a thick, 40-inch-long ponytail atop her green felt head.
Tackling Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” the two whirled and jumped, kicking and bucking in front of head judge Betty Boop.
Kermisha worked her faux-nailed webbed feet, sickening in her bejeweled purple corset, but ultimately she fell to Piggy, whose fringe flew as she went for a well-timed jump split at the song’s climax.
As the commenters watching the video noted, “Kermisha fought hard and devoured,” but “Miss Piggy ate.”
YES, SAN FRANCISCO is a nexus of artificial intelligence innovation, but it’s also one of the queerest cities in America. The Mission District, where ChatGPT maker OpenAI is headquartered, butts up against the Castro, where sidewalk crossings are coated with rainbows, and older nude men are often seen milling about.
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Today’s newsletter :
AI-Generated Spoofs of RuPaul’s Drag Race Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok
Here's How Generative AI Depicts Queer People
Apple’s electric car loss could be home robotics’ gain
These AI startups stood out the most in Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch
Food fraud is a growing economic and health issue, but AI and blockchain technology can help combat it
How to safeguard your business from AI-generated deepfakes
UK and US sign pact to develop AI safety tests
Large language models could ‘revolutionise the finance sector within two years’
A new computational technique could make it easier to engineer useful proteins
Now in its 16th season, RuPaul’s Drag Race has birthed more than a few iconic lip-sync battles, but precious few have featured Muppets.
None, even.
AI Drag Race changed that. In the Instagram account’s recent season finale, Miss Piggy, wearing an AI-generated drag look, faced off against lover-turned-rival Kermisha Ihman, who had a thick, 40-inch-long ponytail atop her green felt head.
Tackling Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” the two whirled and jumped, kicking and bucking in front of head judge Betty Boop.
Kermisha worked her faux-nailed webbed feet, sickening in her bejeweled purple corset, but ultimately she fell to Piggy, whose fringe flew as she went for a well-timed jump split at the song’s climax.
As the commenters watching the video noted, “Kermisha fought hard and devoured,” but “Miss Piggy ate.”
AI Drag Race is just one of a burgeoning number of AI-generated accounts popping up on Instagram and TikTok, with creators not only pitting their favorite fictional characters against each other in seasons meant to mimic the original show, but also creating and generating their own queens.
YES, SAN FRANCISCO is a nexus of artificial intelligence innovation, but it’s also one of the queerest cities in America.
The Mission District, where ChatGPT maker OpenAI is headquartered, butts up against the Castro, where sidewalk crossings are coated with rainbows, and older nude men are often seen milling about.
And queer people are joining the AI revolution. “So many people in this field are gay men, which is something I think few people talk about,” says Spencer Kaplan, an anthropologist and PhD student at Yale who moved to San Francisco to study the developers building generative tools.
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is gay; he married his husband last year in a private, beachfront ceremony.
Beyond Altman—and beyond California—more members of the LGBTQ community are now involved with AI projects and connecting through groups, like Queer in AI.
or every tech success story, there are countless projects that slam headlong into the brick wall of reality.
Apple’s electric vehicle ambitions are one of the most recent — and, frankly, best — examples of a project failing in spite of seeming to have everything going for it.
The jury is still out on the ultimate fate of the Vision Pro, but at the very least, Apple’s mixed reality headset demonstrates that the company isn’t afraid to keep trying where pretty much everyone else has failed.
With the Apple Car firmly in the rearview, the company is reportedly exploring yet another notoriously difficult path: home robots.
Despite an overall decline in startup investing, funding for AI surged in the past year.
Capital toward generative AI ventures alone nearly octupled from 2022 to 2023, reaching $25.2 billion toward the tail end of December.
So it’s not exactly surprising that AI startups dominated at Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 Demo Day.
The Y Combinator Winter 2024 cohort has 86 AI startups, according to YC’s official startup directory — nearly double the number from the Winter 2023 batch and close to triple the number from Winter 2021.
Call it a bubble or overhyped, but clearly, AI is the tech of the moment.
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Food fraud is a growing economic and health issue, but AI and blockchain technology can help combat it
A multi-billion pound criminal enterprise lurks amid our supermarket shelves. Food crime not only harms our wallets but threatens public health. It includes activities such as mislabelling a product, replacing a food or ingredient with another substance that is inferior, and even poisoning.
This is a global concern because of how food crime is evolving. The complexity of food supply chains, the globalization of food markets, and a lack of transparency heightens the vulnerability of the food sector.
So, rethinking how we combat food crime by using technology is imperative.
How to safeguard your business from AI-generated deepfakes
Deepfakes are forms of digitally altered media — including photos, videos and audio clips — that seem to depict a real person.
They are created by training an AI system on real clips featuring a person, and then using that AI system to generate realistic (yet inauthentic) new media.
Deepfake use is becoming more common.
UK and US sign pact to develop AI safety tests
The UK and US have signed a landmark agreement to collaborate on developing rigorous testing for advanced AI systems, representing a major step forward in ensuring their safe deployments.
The Memorandum of Understanding – signed Monday by UK Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan and US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo – establishes a partnership to align the scientific approaches of both countries in rapidly iterating robust evaluation methods for cutting-edge AI models, systems, and agents.
Large language models could ‘revolutionise the finance sector within two years’
Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to improve efficiency and safety in the finance sector by detecting fraud, generating financial insights and automating customer service, according to research by The Alan Turing Institute.
A new computational technique could make it easier to engineer useful proteins
To engineer proteins with useful functions, researchers usually begin with a natural protein that has a desirable function, such as emitting fluorescent light, and put it through many rounds of random mutation that eventually generate an optimized version of the protein.
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