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The Fugees’ Pras Michél Says His Lawyers’ Use of AI Sent Him to Prison
Convicted Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michél said his former lawyer bungled his trial with a closing argument written by AI. It’s another bizarre twist in a sprawling case that saw the hip hop icon charged with conspiracy, acting as a foreign agent of China, and illegal attempts to influence two US presidential elections. Michél faces…
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8 Music Videos That Show How Fast Deepfakes Are Evolving
The sudden explosion of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other large language models has led to renewed attention on artificial intelligence that’s capable of mimicking speech, especially for well-known figures. It has left some spectators fearful of a rise in deepfake-fuelled misinformation, copyright chaos, or possibly even the destruction of reality itself. It will almost certainly lead…
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Elon Musk Tweets Defence of Cop Who Killed Unarmed Black Man in Ferguson, Missouri
Elon Musk tweeted a defence of the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown — an unarmed Black man in Ferguson, Missouri back in 2014 — early Wednesday before deleting the incendiary post. Musk said the police officer was “exonerated” and that the narrative around the shooting was a “fiction.”
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Elon Musk Wants to Sell Satellite Internet to Iran If He Can Get an Exemption on Sanctions
Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider Starlink will try to offer its service to people in Iran, provided U.S. sanctions against the country can be waived, according to the billionaire. Musk declare his intentions to enter the market in response to a tweet from someone who said they were in Iran on Monday and wanted to…