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Michael Schumacher’s family plans legal action over AI ‘interview’ which generated fake quotes | World News
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Michael Schumacher’s family are planning to take legal action against a German magazine which published an “interview” with the seven-time F1 champion generated by artificial intelligence. The 54-year-old has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps almost a…
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Scammed out of money and tricked into fake work – the recruitment cons costing jobseekers thousands | UK News
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The job offer couldn’t have come at a better time for Theo. He had been job hunting for a year, picking up part-time hours in events. He was homeless, crashing on friends’ couches. “I took the first opportunity that came to me because I was like, I just need to get out of this situation,”…
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Prebunking: The new tactic to help people spot fake news | Science & Tech News
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In a battle to tackle misinformation, Google is expanding on a new initiative called “prebunking”. The tech giant aims to release short videos which highlight the techniques that are commonly used whenever misleading information is put out on to the internet. The videos are set to appear as adverts and will be put out on…
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‘#TrumpIsDead’ trends on Twitter as users test Elon Musk’s approach to fake news | Science & Tech News
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Tweets of Donald Trump’s death have been greatly exaggerated. You may have woken up to #TrumpIsDead trending on Twitter this morning, and swiped over to your news app of choice to find out more. Of course, there would have been no such story there. The former US president is alive and well – to coin…
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Amazon files lawsuit against 10,000 Facebook groups designed to create fake reviews | Science & Tech News
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Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups which attempt to orchestrate fake reviews in exchange for money or free products. The groups are set up to recruit individuals willing to post incentivised and misleading reviews on Amazon’s online stores in the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain,…