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  • OpenAI’s New Watermark Will Make Our Fake Image Problems Worse

    OpenAI’s New Watermark Will Make Our Fake Image Problems Worse

    OpenAI announced it’s adding watermarks to images generated by its AI tools Tuesday, an effort to combat growing fears over the coming deepfake tsunami. Images spun up with DALL-E and other OpenAI services will include a visual watermark and other details about its origin in the metadata—information encoded in the generated file. Here’s the problem:…


  • Microsoft Thinks It Can Do Corporate, Legless VR Avatars Better Than Meta

    Microsoft Thinks It Can Do Corporate, Legless VR Avatars Better Than Meta

    Big tech’s big dreams of a corporate metaverse filled with virtual reality workplaces aren’t quite dead yet, at least according to Microsoft. The Redmond, Washington tech giant finally unveiled its 3D Mesh integration for Microsoft Teams, offering a new wave of generic-looking, legless avatars for making work meetings a fair bit more awkward. As envisioned…