EU publishes election security guidance for social media giants and others in scope of DSA

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The European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at the around two dozen (larger) platforms with more than 45 million+ regional monthly active users who are regulated under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and — consequently — have a legal duty to mitigate systemic risks such as political deepfakes while safeguarding fundamental rights like freedom of expression and privacy.

In-scope platforms include the likes of Facebook, Google Search, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and X.

“Not to get too cryptographically religious here, but we saw that during the FTX collapse,” Dykstra said. “We had an organization that had some brand trust, like I had my personal life savings in FTX.
I trusted them as a brand.”

But the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX was manipulating its books internally and misleading investors.
Dykstra sees that as akin to making a query to a database for financial records, but manipulating it inside their own database.

And this transcends beyond FTX, into other industries, too.
“There’s an incentive for financial institutions to want to manipulate their records … so we see it all the time and it becomes more problematic,” Dykstra said.

Today’s newsletter : 

• EU publishes election security guidance for social media giants and others in scope of DSA

• The AI world needs more data transparency and web3 startup Space and Time says it can help

• Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at Work

• OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool

• ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora

• Google’s AI prophet fast tracks singularity prediction

• AI worm that infects computers and reads emails created by researchers

• AI solves nuclear fusion puzzle for near-limitless clean energy

• Beverly Hills school expels pupils over AI fake nudes of classmates

EU publishes election security guidance for social media giants and others in scope of DSA
Summary:

The European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at the around two dozen (larger) platforms with more than 45 million+ regional monthly active users who are regulated under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and — consequently — have a legal duty to mitigate systemic risks such as political deepfakes while safeguarding fundamental rights like freedom of expression and privacy.

In-scope platforms include the likes of Facebook, Google Search, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and X.

The Commission has named elections as one of a handful of priority areas for its enforcement of the DSA on very large online platforms (VLOPs) and very large online search engines (VLOSEs).

This subset of DSA-regulated companies are required to identify and mitigate systemic risks, such as information manipulation targeting democratic processes in the region, in addition to complying with the full online governance regime.

Per the EU’s election security guidance, the bloc expects regulated tech giants to up their game on protecting democratic votes and deploy capable content moderation resources in the multiple official languages spoken across the bloc — ensuring they have enough staff on hand to respond effectively to risks arising from the flow of information on their platforms and act on reports by third-party fact-checkers — with the risk of big fines for dropping the ball.

The AI world needs more data transparency and web3 startup Space and Time says it can help
Summary:

“Not to get too cryptographically religious here, but we saw that during the FTX collapse,” Dykstra said. “We had an organization that had some brand trust, like I had my personal life savings in FTX. I trusted them as a brand.”

But the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX was manipulating its books internally and misleading investors.

Dykstra sees that as akin to making a query to a database for financial records, but manipulating it inside their own database.

And this transcends beyond FTX, into other industries, too. “There’s an incentive for financial institutions to want to manipulate their records … so we see it all the time and it becomes more problematic,” Dykstra said.

Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at Work
Summary:

Ever since the rollout of ChatGPT in November 2022, many people in science, business, and media have been obsessed with AI.

A cursory look at my own published work during that period fingers me as among the guilty. My defense is that I share with those other obsessives a belief that large language models are the leading edge of an epochal transformation.

Maybe I’m swimming in generative Kool-Aid, but I believe AI advances within our grasp will change not only the way we work, but the structure of businesses, and ultimately the course of humanity.

Not everyone agrees, and in recent months there’s been a backlash.
AI has been oversold and overhyped, some experts now opine.

OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool
Summary:

OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners.

A model called "Voice Engine" can essentially duplicate someone's speech based on a 15-second audio sample, according to an OpenAI blog post sharing results of a small-scale test of the tool.

"We recognize that generating speech that resembles people's voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year," the San Francisco-based company said.

"We are engaging with U.S. and international partners from across government, media, entertainment, education, civil society and beyond to ensure we are incorporating their feedback as we build."

Disinformation researchers fear rampant misuse of AI-powered applications in a pivotal election year thanks to proliferating voice cloning tools, which are cheap, easy to use and hard to trace.

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‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has unveiled the first short films created using its new video AI tool Sora, with filmmakers describing the creations as “totally surreal”.

OpenAI launched its new Sora system last month, provoking a mix of delight and panic about its capabilities.

Google’s AI prophet fast tracks singularity prediction

Renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil has predicted that artificial intelligence will herald a new era of hybrid humans capable of ageing in reverse within the next five years.

The Google engineer gained prominence in 2005 when he predicted in his seminal book The Singularity Is Near that the technological singularity – the moment where AI surpasses all humans and triggers an “intelligence explosion” – would take place by 2045.

AI worm that infects computers and reads emails created by researchers

Security researchers have developed a self-replicating AI worm that can infiltrate people’s emails in order to spread malware and steal data.

Dubbed Morris II, after the first ever computer worm from 1988, the computer worm was created by an international team from the US and Israel in an effort to highlight the risks associated with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).

AI solves nuclear fusion puzzle for near-limitless clean energy

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to overcome a huge challenge for producing near-limitless clean energy with nuclear fusion.

A team from Princeton University in the US figured out a way to use an AI model to predict and prevent instabilities with plasma during fusion reactions.

Beverly Hills school expels pupils over AI fake nudes of classmates

A school in the California city of Beverly Hills has expelled five students after fake, AI-generated nudes of their classmates were shared online.

The images, in which students’ faces were superimposed onto nude bodies, came to the attention of Beverly Vista Middle School officials in late February.

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