Artificial intelligence

Grindr’s new AI ‘Wingman’

Grindr has partnered with Ex-human to create the apps first AI generated ‘Wingman’. This newly expected feature of the LGBTQI+ dating app will generate conversation starters, suggestions for profiles and insights and tips specific to the individuals dating habits. However, there are ethical concerns as AI technology continues to grow while Australia, still does not …

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AI Deepfake Tech Becoming a Political Campaign Strategy

As Artificial Intelligence becomes more superior, so too do deepfakes and imitation technology. Recently, Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and the Queensland LNP’s upcoming state election campaign, as well as the Federal Labor government, have all utilized deepfake technology to smear political opponents or promote themselves. The future of AI and deepfake technology is highly …

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AI Increasingly Uncooperative as it Becomes More Complex

AIs which train on large datasets alongside other AIs are increasingly producing behaviours unintelligible to humans. There is a growing concern that human-machine cooperation will break down as AI becomes more complex and it develops behaviours amongst itself. In controlled experiments in popular games such as Chess to Poker to Go, AI develops intricate solutions …

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TikTok Political Campaigns

A recent campaign by the Liberals has seen Queensland Premier Steven Miles depicted through AI on Tiktok. While this has caused uproar from the Labor Party, this is not the first time AI has been used in political campaigns. Ben Fragiadakis spoke to Dr Susan Grantham of Griffith University about the future of political campaigning …

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Rage Against the AI Machine

This week the extraordinary firing and re-hiring of Open AI CEO Sam Altman brought to the public’s attention the tensions between ethical and commercial imperatives that plague the development of artificial intelligence. Stephen Hill asked Scientia Professor Toby Walsh and Sydney University media lecturer Joanna Gray about the history and corporate structure of the OpenAI, …

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No permission from authors: thousands of books found pirated to train AI

Artificial Intelligence is taking the creative sector by storm, but not always in a good way.An AI training dataset called Books3 was found to have illegally scraped over 180 000 books, including many by Australian authors.Copyright activists remain concerned about the issue, which has also deepened conversations about ethics and generative AI. Image: Unsplash: Steve …

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