• AI writer served by Wimbledon and IBM commits double fault

    AI writer served by Wimbledon and IBM commits double fault
    Catch Me Up online service muddles facts about players amid All England Club push to embrace technologyWimbledon staff perhaps need not fear losing their jobs to the artificial intelligence revolution just yet, after the club’s latest experiment with generative technology got off to a shaky start.Wimbledon’s new online feature, Catch Me Up, which publishes pre- and post-match player profiles with AI-generated stories and analysis, has made errors on the first day of the championships
  • Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse

    Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse
    Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z-poetry’The patriotic poetry of Gennady Rakitin has won him quite a following in Russia over the past year. His odes to Vladimir Putin and emotive verses in support of Russia’s war in Ukraine drew appreciation on social media and even the occasional honourable mention in Russian poetry prizes.But Rakitin’s admirers did not realise one thing – the 18 poems published under
  • Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake

    Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake
    Look out for surplus fingers, compare mannerisms with real recordings and apply good old-fashioned common sense and scepticism, experts adviseIn a crucial election year for the world, with the UK, US and France among the countries going to the polls, disinformation is swirling around social media.There is much concern about deepfakes, or artificial intelligence-generated images or audio of leading political figures designed to mislead voters, and whether they will affect results. Continue readin