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😥 Charities using AI-generated photos of starving children to raise money
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The scenes are grisly: stick-thin children huddling together in a muddy stream, white volunteers surrounded by throngs of starving Africans, and Arab children in refugee camps holding tin bowls.
The only problem? None of them are real. In a macabre phenomenon sweeping the world’s leading non-government organizations, The Guardian reports, charity groups are now weaponizing AI to produce heavily racialized misery-slop — replete with nonexistent imagery of poverty, violence, and climate disasters. Read more
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🐹 I spent a month living with a $430 AI pet, the Casio Moflin (link)
🇨🇳 China’s generative AI user base doubles to 515 million in six months (link)
🫣 OpenAI researcher forced to delete “embarrassing” tweet claiming huge breakthrough (link)
👭 YouTube’s likeness-detection technology has officially launched (link)
↘ ChatGPT usage has peaked and is now declining, new data finds (link)
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💃 WearView: Create stunning fashion photos with AI generated models (link)
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🤝 Snov: Sales engagement on autopilot - we reach, you seal the deal (link)
📱 Replit: An integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you code, build, and deploy apps (link)
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