3 posts tagged ‘scams’
Google Researchers Can Create an AI That Thinks a Lot Like You After Just a Two-Hour Interview
Gizmodo,
After an average of 6,000 words, Stanford and Google researchers can spin up a generative agent that will act a lot like you do.
YouTube accused of refusing to remove scam ads featuring deepfaked Elon Musk: "We found that the ad doesn't go against Google's policies"
Boing Boing,
YouTube users are noticing a sudden increase in the number of scammy ads on the platform, accompanied by distinterested moderation: a deepfake Elon pitching trading bots is the example bubbling virally up today on Reddit. Jakob_G writes: because these scam ads are getting so annoying i started reporting them every time i see one, because i do understand that there are probably millions of advertisers on YouTube and sometimes these scams don't get detected right away. — Read the rest
YouTube ContentID scammers must pay $3.3m to victims
Two men who scammed $23m out of ContentID, YouTube's internal copyright enforcement and monetization system, must pay artists $3.3m in restitution. In 2021, the US Department of Justice launched a criminal proceeding against two men suspected of running a massive YouTube Content ID scam… The scammers' company, MediaMuv LLC., — Read the rest