Generative AI

AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. With AI deepfakes cropping up almost every day, depicting everyone from Taylor Swift to Donald Trump, it’s getting harder to tell what’s real from what’s not. The following photo-illustrated graphic highlights a few notable areas of an AI-deepfake of Pope Francis.

One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images

AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. Deceptive pictures, videos and audio are proliferating thanks to the rise and misuse of generative artificial intelligence tools.

FILE - Mustafa Suleyman co founder and CEO of Inflection AI speaks to journalist during the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, England, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Microsoft has hired Suleyman to head up its consumer artificial intelligence business, adding to its ranks an influential figure in the artificial intelligence world to cement its position at the forefront of the booming AI industry. Suleyman said in a post on LinkedIn on Monday, March 18, 2024, that he'll become CEO of Microsoft AI, leading all of the company's consumer AI products and research, including its generative AI service Copilot as well as its Bing search engine and Edge browser. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Microsoft hires influential AI figure Mustafa Suleyman to head up consumer AI business

Europe asks Google, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms how they’re reducing generative AI risks

People are reflected in a window of a hotel at the Davos Promenade in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

AI-created election disinformation is deceiving voters globally

FILE - A man walks in front of an image of a flower created with artificial intelligence by artist Refik Anadol ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 14, 2024. European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc's artificial intelligence law Wednesday, putting the world-leading set of rules for the fast-developing technology on track to take effect later this year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Europe’s world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers. Here’s what happens next

AI supercharges threat of disinformation in a big year for elections globally

From Bangladesh to Slovakia, AI-generated deepfakes have been undermining elections around the globe. Experts say their reach and sophistication is a sign of things to come in consequential elections later this year. (March 15)

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FILE - A Copilot page showing the incorporation of AI technology is shown in London, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. A Microsoft engineer is sounding an alarm Wednesday, March 6, 2024, about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Microsoft engineer sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company’s board

A Microsoft engineer is sounding an alarm about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool.

It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research.

AI chatbot rivalry accelerates again with new Claude chatbots from Anthropic, an OpenAI rival

The race to build the smartest artificial intelligence chatbot completed another lap Monday when startup Anthropic unveiled a new AI model it says is more than advanced than those before it.

FILE - Madonna speaks at the MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on Sept. 12, 2021, in New York. Making instant videos is the next wave of generative artificial intelligence, much like chatbots and image-generators before it. And the pop star Madonna is among the early adopters. Madonna's team used an AI text-to-video tool to make moving images of swirling clouds featured in her ongoing Celebration Tour.(Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Madonna is among the early adopters of AI’s next wave

Making instant videos is the next wave of generative artificial intelligence, much like chatbots and image-generators before it.

FILE - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in the "Technology in a turbulent world" panel discussion during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker's founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits. In a lawsuit filed Thursday Feb. 29, 2024 at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI's creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Greg Brockman, the president, to keep the AI company as a non-profit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a House Select Committee focusing on China on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

The US is bracing for complex, fast-moving threats to elections this year, FBI director warns

McLEAN, VA. (AP) — The United States expects to face fast-moving threats to American elections this year as artificial intelligence and other technological advances have made interference and meddling easier than before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday.

FILE - AI engineer Jenna Reher works on humanoid robot Figure 01 at Figure AI's test facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., Oct. 3, 2023. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the startup-funding divisions of Amazon, Intel and OpenAI. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos and tech giants

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure.

In this photo provided by LG Electronics, its CEO William Cho, from left, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and LG COO Kwon Bong-seok pose for a photo after their meeting at LG Twin Towers headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Zuckerberg discussed cooperation on extended reality (XR) devices with LG Electronics executives on Wednesday, as he visited South Korea for the first time in about 10 years. (LG Electronics via AP)

Zuckerberg meets LG, Samsung chiefs in Seoul as Meta ramps up AI ambitions

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has discussed cooperation on extended reality devices with LG Electronics executives as part of his visit to South Korea that highlights Meta’s ambitions in artificial intelligence.

ARCHIVO - El logotipo de Microsoft durante un evento en el centro de estudios Chatham House en Londres, el lunes 15 de enero de 2024. (AP Foto/Kin Cheung, Archivo)

Microsoft’s new deal with France’s Mistral AI is under scrutiny from the European Union

The European Union is looking into Microsoft’s partnership with French startup Mistral AI. It’s part of a broader review of the booming generative artificial intelligence sector to see if it raises any competition concerns.

Microsoft inks deal with France’s Mistral AI, an OpenAI rival that has its own chatbot

Microsoft announced an artificial intelligence partnership Monday with the French startup Mistral AI that could lessen the software giant’s reliance on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for supplying the next wave of chatbots and other generative AI products.

"Burn Book," by longtime Silicon Valley reporter Kara Swisher is seen, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in San Ramon, Calif. The book is published by Simon and Schuster. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

‘Burn Book’ torches tech titans in veteran reporter’s tale of love and loathing in Silicon Valley

Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them.

Women learn to use a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence developed by Myna Mahila Foundation at the local women's organization’s office in Mumbai, India, Feb. 1, 2024. The chatbot, currently a pilot project, represents what many hope will be part of the impact of AI on health care around the globe: to deliver accurate medical information in personalized responses that can reach many more people than in-person clinics or trained medical workers. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

How AI health care chatbots learn from the questions of an Indian women’s organization

A women’s organization in Mumbai, India, is training a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence with the help of women like 32-year-old Komal Vilas Thatkare.

A portion of a Opera page showing the incorporation of AI technology is shown in London, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. The rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites

A lot people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information.

Sora is ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator. Here’s what we know about the new tool

The maker of ChatGPT is now diving into AI-generated video. Meet Sora — OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator.

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC stock surges after Morgan Stanley raises price target on Nvidia

Taiwan’s Taiex benchmark index jumped 3% to a record high on Thursday, buoyed by a surge in the share price of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s biggest maker of computer chips.

OpenAI reveals Sora, a tool to make instant videos from written prompts

The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands.

Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber operations

Microsoft says U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use generative artificial intelligence in mounting and organizing offensive cyber operations.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talks on a video chat during the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that the danger that keeps him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the "very subtle societal misalignments" that can make the systems wreck havoc. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

OpenAI CEO warns that ‘societal misalignments’ could make artificial intelligence dangerous

The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreck havoc.

Amazon reports better-than-expected revenue, profits for the holiday shopping season

Amazon reported better-than-expected revenue and profits for the fourth quarter, driven by strong consumer spending during the holiday shopping season.

ChatGPT violated European privacy laws, Italy tells chatbot maker OpenAI

Italian regulators say they informed OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules.

FILE - Lina Khan, the nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing, April 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. antitrust enforcers are launching an inquiry into how big tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google are holding sway over artificial intelligence startups, Khan said Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FTC opens inquiry into Big Tech’s partnerships with leading AI startups

U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an inquiry into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Anthropic and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them.

Microsoft and others are making new tools to help small businesses capitalize on A.I.

The influx of generative artificial intelligence software is transforming small businesses. Small business owners are using A.I. tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and others to check grammar in emails, punch up marketing copy and research business plans.

A man walks in front of a screen with a artificial intelligence generated artwork by media artist Refik Anadol, inside the Congress Center where the World Economic Forum take place in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 15 until Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati

Artificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos.

FILE - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law hearing on artificial intelligence, May 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. ChatGPT maker OpenAI has outlined a plan, spelled out in a blog post on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, to prevent its tools from being used to spread election misinformation as voters in more than 50 countries around the world prepare to vote in national elections in 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Here’s how ChatGPT maker OpenAI plans to deter election misinformation in 2024

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has outlined a plan to prevent its artificial intelligence tools from being used to spread election misinformation in 2024.

Tech firm Baidu denies report that its Ernie AI chatbot is linked to Chinese military research

The technology company Baidu is refuting a newspaper report that said its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie was linked to Chinese military research.

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works.

Microsoft's new Copilot key is seen on a Dell computer, next to the alt key, in this undated photo provided by AxiCom. Starting this month, some new personal computers that run Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system will have the special 'Copilot key' that launches the software giant's AI chatbot. (AxiCom on behalf of Dell Technologies via AP)

Microsoft’s new AI key is first big change to keyboards in decades

Starting this month, some new personal computers that run Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system will have a special “Copilot key” that launches the software giant’s AI chatbot.

FILE - A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, Thursday, May 6, 2021 in New York. The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023 seeking to end the practice of using published material to train chatbots. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for using its stories to train chatbots

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, trying to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots.

2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren’t sure what to do about it

ChatGPT was the catalyst for a year that took artificial intelligence mainstream. For AI, 2023 was a long time coming.

(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

AWS chief Adam Selipsky talks generative AI, Amazon’s investment in Anthropic and cloud cost cutting

Adam Selipsky is shepherding Amazon’s cloud unit at one of the most important moments in tech history.