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Music Producer Accused of Using AI Songs to Scam Streaming Platforms Out of $10 Million in Royalties
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Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon
Authors keep finding what appear to be AI-generated imitations and summaries of their books on Amazon. There's little they can do to rein in the rip-offs.
After dating app murders spike in Colombia, Match Group offers to help the police
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Melanie Mitchell on X: "A book on Amazon, published in 2023, with the same title as my 2019 book. The "sample" on Amazon reads like a ChatGPT summary of my book (with some small post-editing). Is this legal? Same author has published 2 dozen other books on Amazon in 2023 alone. 😠😡 https://t.co/JWnRYCj6Np" / X
A book on Amazon, published in 2023, with the same title as my 2019 book.The "sample" on Amazon reads like a ChatGPT summary of my book (with some small post-editing). Is this legal? Same author has published 2 dozen other books on Amazon in 2023 alone.😠😡 pic.twitter.com/JWnRYCj6Np— Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) January 4, 2024
AI ‘only scratching the surface’ of potential in financial services
Tech can spot fraud and analyse sentiment as further advances are set to transform the sector
US mother gets call from ‘kidnapped daughter’ – but it’s really an AI scam
Jennifer DeStefano tells US Senate about dangers of artificial technology after receiving phone call from scammers sounding exactly like her daughter
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.
the worker put aside his early doubts after the video call because other people in attendance had looked and sounded just like colleagues he recognized