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As Hurricane Helene wreaks havoc in North Carolina and Florida, AI-generated images of victims and first responders are spreading on platforms like Instagram, Facebook and X, Forbes reported. An AI-generated image of a young girl stranded in flood waters holding a drenched puppy in her hand has more than a million views on X, Kevin Guo, CEO of content moderation platform Hive confirmed with me. The image is being used to spread misinformation about the federal government’s response to the disaster.
Other AI-generated images of Hurricane Helene’s aftermath, such as a man wading through water while holding a dog, law enforcement officials providing relief and Donald Trump in a life jacket trawling through muddy water, are also circulating on social media. Experts say such fake images could hurt humanitarian efforts and make it difficult for victims to find support and trustworthy information.
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This comes after the once-buzzy startup’s CEO Noam Shazeer was hired by Google in a massive $2.7 billion deal and its interim leader announced that it plans to stop training cutting edge AI models and instead focus on its consumer product.PEAK PERFORMANCE
Two computer scientists, Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing techniques that allow computers to understand information in a way similar to the human brain — teaching systems to ingest vast amounts of data and identify patterns. Hilton, known as one of the godfathers of AI, and Hopfield used concepts from physics to train artificial neural networks, laying a foundation for the development of machine learning systems like ChatGPT.
