• Sure, Google’s AI overviews could be useful – if you like eating rocks | John Naughton

    Sure, Google’s AI overviews could be useful – if you like eating rocks | John Naughton
    The company that shaped the development of search engines is banking on chatbot-style summaries. But so far, its suggestions are pretty wildOnce upon a time, Google was great. For those who were online in 1998, history’s timeline bifurcated into two eras: BG (Before Google), and AG. It was elegant and clean: elegant because it was driven by a semi-objective algorithm called PageRank, which ranked websites according to how many other websites linked to them; and clean because it had no adve
  • Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws

    Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws
    Attorney general Mark Dreyfus to introduce legislation on Wednesday targeting use of generative AI to create non-consensual deepfake pornGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSharing digitally altered “deepfake” pornographic images will attract a penalty of six years’ jail, or seven years for those who also created them, under proposed new national laws to go before federal parliament next week.The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, is expected t
  • Creating or sharing deepfake porn without consent to be illegal under proposed new Australian laws

    Creating or sharing deepfake porn without consent to be illegal under proposed new Australian laws
    Attorney general Mark Dreyfus to introduce legislation on Wednesday targeting use of generative AI to create non-consensual deepfake pornGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSharing digitally altered “deepfake” pornographic images will attract a penalty of six years’ jail, or seven years for those who also created them, under proposed new national laws to go before federal parliament next week.The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, is expected t