Topic: ai detection
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AI conference papers caught using hallucinated citations
An AI detection startup found 100 fabricated references across 51 papers at a major AI conference, indicating researchers may be using AI tools for tasks like bibliography formatting and introducing errors. While the fake citations are a small fraction of the total, their presence undermines acad...
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AI's Surprising Truth: Faking Toxicity Is Harder Than Intelligence
AI models are easily distinguishable from humans in online conversations due to their overly friendly emotional tone, with classifiers identifying machine-generated responses with 70-80% accuracy. The study introduced a "computational Turing test" using automated classifiers and linguistic analys...
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YouTube's AI Hunts for Deepfakes of Top Creators
YouTube has launched a new tool for Partner Program creators to detect and report unauthorized AI-generated deepfakes that misuse their likeness, accessible via YouTube Studio after identity verification. The feature, currently in development and rolling out gradually, may occasionally flag creat...
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Taylor Swift Fans Demand She 'Do Better' Over AI Video Claims
Taylor Swift fans are criticizing promotional videos for her new album "The Life of a Showgirl" due to visual anomalies, sparking accusations that the content is artificially generated. The controversy has ignited a broader debate on the ethics of AI in entertainment, with experts like Ben Colman...
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Make AI Writing Sound Human with Wikipedia's AI-Spotting Guide
A new tool called Humanizer, developed by Siqi Chen, uses Wikipedia's AI-detection guidelines to make AI-generated text appear more natural by avoiding flagged stylistic patterns. The tool specifically scrubs linguistic giveaways like vague attributions and promotional language, transforming AI o...
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Viral Reddit Food Delivery Scam Was AI-Generated
A viral Reddit post accusing a major food delivery service of unethical practices has been debunked as a probable AI-generated fabrication, exploiting public concerns about the gig economy. The post's key evidence, an alleged employee badge, was discredited by AI detection tools and Uber's confir...
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Wikipedia Group's AI Detection Guide Now Powers a 'Humanizing' Chatbot Plug-In
A new open-source tool called Humanizer uses a Wikipedia community's guide to help AI like Claude write more naturally by avoiding 24 identified chatbot language patterns. The tool is based on a list from Wikipedia's AI Cleanup project and works as a "skill file" for Claude, though it may not imp...
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Wikipedia Volunteers Catalogued AI Fakes. Now a Plugin Blocks Them.
A new open-source tool called "Humanizer" helps AI-generated code appear more natural by instructing models to avoid 24 specific language patterns identified by Wikipedia volunteers as signs of automated writing. The tool was made possible by a detailed list of AI writing indicators compiled by W...
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Vectra AI Delivers Unified Threat Visibility for Microsoft
Vectra AI Shield for Microsoft is a unified security platform that provides comprehensive protection for Microsoft environments, including Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Azure, through a single AI-driven interface. The platform addresses visibility gaps and inconsistent alerts by using AI-...
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Google's AI Ransomware Defense Has Critical Limits
Google has introduced an AI-powered defense for its Drive desktop application that detects ransomware behavior in real-time and stops cloud synchronization to prevent widespread infection. This feature acts as a supplementary security layer, using an AI model trained on millions of ransomware-enc...
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Will AI Influencers Crash the Creator Economy?
The rapid rise of AI-generated content is forcing a critical discussion about authenticity and ethics in the creator economy, as tools have lowered the barrier to creating convincing but often deceptive videos. AI is enabling both low-effort content farming for revenue and more sinister scams, in...
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Wyze's Solar-Powered Pan-Tilt Camera Under $80
The Wyze Solar Cam Pan is an affordable outdoor security camera that operates continuously with just one hour of daily sunlight, though its performance in cloudy conditions or with heavy use is unspecified. It features AI-powered person detection and tracking, along with night vision, a motion-ac...
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Barracuda Research: Your Hub for Global Threat Intelligence
Barracuda Networks has launched Barracuda Research, a centralized hub providing threat intelligence and cybersecurity analysis to help organizations identify risks and implement protective measures. A study reveals that 31% of businesses with up to 2,000 employees struggle to handle cyberthreat i...
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AI Helps US Investigators Spot AI-Generated Child Abuse Images
Federal investigators are using AI to identify AI-generated child sexual abuse material, helping them focus on rescuing real children from harm. A contract with Hive AI provides specialized detection algorithms to handle a dramatic surge in generative AI-related incidents overwhelming traditional...
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Nintendo Denies AI Use in 'My Mario' Marketing Campaign
Nintendo denied using AI to create promotional images for its 'My Mario' collection, directly refuting online speculation that arose after observers pointed to anatomical inconsistencies in models' hands. The controversy was complicated by a model confirming her participation and by unreliable AI...
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Secure Your Windows Environments with Runtime CNAPP
Sweet Security has expanded its Runtime CNAPP sensor to include comprehensive protection for Windows cloud environments, offering visibility, threat detection, and automated investigation capabilities previously limited to Linux. The Windows sensor is engineered for cloud deployment using Rust, m...
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Corero SmartWall ONE Stops Encrypted DDoS Attacks Instantly
Corero Network Security has upgraded its SmartWall ONE platform to provide real-time defense against encrypted application-layer DDoS attacks using AI and threat intelligence. The solution operates within existing infrastructure, avoiding performance delays and false alarms while maintaining priv...
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Pinterest's New 'Tuner' Lets You Limit AI Content
Pinterest has launched a "tuner" feature that allows users to control the amount of AI-generated content in their feeds, specifically for categories like beauty, art, fashion, and home decor. The tuner is accessible in the settings under "refine your recommendations" and is currently available on...
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ZoraSafe App to Shield Seniors Online at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
ZoraSafe is a cybersecurity app designed for seniors to protect them from online threats and educate them through gamified learning, set to debut at TechCrunch Disrupt. The app features QR code scanning, analysis of suspicious messages, and a community-driven database for reporting scams to prote...
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Black Hat GEO: The Hidden Threat You Can't Ignore
Black Hat GEO uses AI to manipulate search rankings and deceive algorithms, posing significant risks to brand integrity and online visibility. It includes tactics like mass-producing AI-generated spam, fabricating E-E-A-T signals, and using LLM cloaking to exploit vulnerabilities in search system...
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Humanize AI Content: Rank Higher & Engage Readers
Content humanization is the essential process of refining AI-generated text to make it feel authentic, engaging, and trustworthy by injecting clarity, warmth, and personal experience. An effective strategy leverages AI for scale and speed but relies on human editing for creativity, brand storytel...
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AI Research Boom: More Papers, Less Progress?
The adoption of AI language models has led to a significant increase in the number of research papers (preprints) produced by scientists, but a decline in their acceptance into peer-reviewed journals. Researchers developed a detection tool by training a model to distinguish between human-written ...
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Google's Nano Banana AI Makes Photos Unreliable
Google's Nano Banana Pro AI image model creates highly realistic images that are difficult to distinguish from authentic photographs, improving on previous flaws like blurring and unnatural textures. The subscription-based service, built on Gemini 3 Pro architecture, is accessible with a free tie...
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Take Control of Your TikTok AI Content Feed
TikTok is introducing a feature that lets users control the amount of AI-generated content in their feeds, enhancing personalized content curation. The platform will use invisible watermarks on AI-generated videos to improve content identification and transparency, applying them to its own tools ...
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Google Ads Improves Advertiser Suspension Accuracy
Google has significantly reduced mistaken advertiser suspensions by over 80% and now resolves 99% of appeals within one business day, enhancing stability for businesses. The improvements were driven by clearer policy wording, AI-powered detection with Gemini technology, and optimized appeal proce...
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Datadog's Updog Tool Instantly Detects App Downtime
Datadog's Updog is a free public dashboard that monitors real-time status of major cloud services like AWS and Slack, enabling quick verification of service disruptions without a subscription. The tool uses artificial intelligence to analyze telemetry data, detecting subtle anomalies and providin...
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Tech Giants Ignore AI-Powered Student Cheating
Tech companies like OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity are offering free or discounted AI subscriptions to students, promoting them as academic aids but not addressing their potential for enabling cheating. The rapid adoption of AI tools among students has led to increased academic dishonesty, with e...
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Pinterest Lets You Limit AI Content in Your Feed
Pinterest has introduced new user controls allowing individuals to limit AI-generated content in their feeds, addressing concerns over "AI slop" degrading the platform's experience. The platform is enhancing AI content labels and enabling users to reduce visibility of synthetic imagery in specifi...
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Our Top Hybrid Mop Vac Hits Lowest Price Ever
The Eufy X10 Pro Omni is a top-rated midrange robot vacuum and mop, now available at its lowest price of $499.99, offering significant savings from its usual $700. It features dual oscillating mop brushes for effective stain removal, a squircle design for better corner access, and an all-in-one d...
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Why We Can't Quit Bad Authentication Habits
Companies rely on outdated authentication methods and face vulnerabilities from employees' poor security habits, despite better solutions being available. A significant training gap exists, with 40% of employees lacking cybersecurity training and outdated protocols leading to insecure practices. ...
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Bot Farms: The Hidden Architecture of Disinformation
Bot farms are central to modern disinformation, manipulating public opinion, influencing elections, and eroding trust in democratic institutions through automated networks. Automated bots accounted for 51% of web traffic in 2024, amplifying misleading content and creating a false sense of consens...
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Microsoft Uncovers AI-Powered Phishing Scam
Cybercriminals are using artificial intelligence, including large language models, to create highly sophisticated phishing scams, deepfakes, and automated data extortion attacks. A specific attack involved hiding malicious code in an SVG file disguised as a PDF, using obfuscated business terms to...
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Protecto Vault Secures AI Agents with API-First Protection
Protecto Vault is a SaaS platform that secures sensitive data for AI agents by automatically scanning and masking information like PII and PHI before it reaches an AI model, addressing critical compliance and privacy concerns. The platform's API-first design and context-preserving masking enable ...
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Eufy X10 Pro Omni Robovac Hits Record Low Price
The Eufy X10 Pro Omni robot vacuum and mop is at its lowest price of $449.99, featuring advanced AI obstacle avoidance, strong suction, and a convenient dock with automatic emptying and mop drying. The Nothing Phone (3) is also at a record-low price, offering a unique design with its Glyph Interf...
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Find Lost Pets by Tapping Ring Doorbells
Ring has expanded its free Search Party pet finder service nationwide via its Neighbors app, leveraging community and AI-powered cameras to help reunite lost pets with owners, reportedly reuniting over one dog per day. The service allows any user to post a missing pet alert; AI on Ring cameras ca...
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Nintendo Denies AI Use in Mario Ad After Model Speaks Out
Nintendo has denied using AI for its My Mario toy line marketing, confirming all images feature real human models and traditional photoshoot practices. The controversy originated from a viral social media claim misinterpreting a model's unusual thumb position as evidence of AI generation, highlig...
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Lockly's New Smart Locks Add Matter & NFC Support
Lockly's new Affirm Series smart locks feature native Matter compatibility and built-in Wi-Fi for broad ecosystem support and easy setup, with multiple access methods including NFC via cards or smartphones. The company is also launching the TapCom platform for rental management with video interco...
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Black Friday's Best Robovac Deal: Dreame X40 Ultra
The Dreame X40 Ultra offers a hands-free cleaning experience with powerful 12,000Pa suction and AI dirt detection, currently available at a discounted price of $499.99 until December 1st. It features dual oscillating mop pads that automatically detach for vacuuming carpets and reattach for moppin...
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AI Takes Center Stage in the Music Industry
The music industry is shifting from legal battles to strategic partnerships with AI companies, exemplified by Klay's licensing agreements with major record labels to monetize AI-generated music within established frameworks. Legal settlements and new platforms are emerging that aim to ethically i...
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AI Content Now Exceeds 50% of the Internet
AI now generates just over half of all new online articles, indicating a potential stabilization after rapid growth, with current levels at 52%. The study, based on 65,000 English articles, noted a surge in AI content post-ChatGPT's 2022 debut but found it plateaued after November 2024. Human-wri...
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Planet Hunting and India's Electric Scooter Revolution
The Trump administration's termination of thousands of federal health employees during the government shutdown is expected to severely impact disease surveillance at the CDC, prompting lawsuits from labor unions. Artificial intelligence is causing controversy with tools like OpenAI's Sora 2 video...
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Surviving the AI Ad-Pocalypse
Generative AI is rapidly transforming advertising by enabling brands to create marketing content faster and cheaper, though this risks producing generic and forgettable ads. Consumer reactions to AI-generated ads are mixed, with subtle uses often going unnoticed and accepted, while obvious AI vis...
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AI Hype vs. Reality: Key Biotech Trends to Watch
AI in biotechnology offers significant potential for medical advancement but requires rigorous clinical validation and responsible implementation to ensure real-world patient benefits and avoid overhyped promises. The technology presents a dual-edged impact, exemplified by AI's role in both harmf...
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Pinterest Users Voice Frustration Over AI-Generated Content
Pinterest's core appeal of authentic, human-curated content is being undermined by a flood of low-quality, AI-generated material, leading to user frustration and abandonment. The platform's image-heavy format and external traffic model make it a prime target for AI "slop," as realistic images are...
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Your Face Is the Next Legal Battleground for AI
AI technology is rapidly outpacing existing legal frameworks, creating a regulatory battleground over the use of personal likenesses, such as faces and voices, in generated content. In response, states like Tennessee and California have passed laws to protect against unauthorized digital replicas...
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Google AI Removes Major Game Leaks Overnight
Google's Nano Banana Pro AI tool generates hyper-realistic fake images that blur the line between real and fabricated content, causing widespread doubt about the authenticity of online leaks. The technology has led to viral fake leaks in entertainment, such as non-existent movie stills and game s...
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DOGE Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits
Court filings reveal government agencies may have overstepped legal boundaries, including the improper sharing of sensitive Social Security data via unsecured servers. Broader privacy concerns are highlighted by law enforcement purchasing personal data to circumvent warrants and by significant di...
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Lawyers' AI Excuses After Getting Busted
Lawyers are increasingly facing sanctions for submitting legal documents containing fake case citations generated by AI, with judges describing it as an epidemic and consequences ranging from reprimands to disciplinary actions. Research shows that the most effective response when caught is to ack...
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Wyze's Budget Video Doorbell Now Lasts 6 Months on a Charge
Wyze has introduced a Battery Video Doorbell priced at $65.98, offering up to six months of battery life and flexible wireless or wired installation, though it has a lower video resolution than previous models. The doorbell features a 150-degree "head-to-toe" viewing angle for better coverage and...
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Recover Hacked Facebook and Instagram Accounts Faster
Meta has launched a centralized support hub to help users recover hacked Facebook and Instagram accounts, consolidating tools to address past frustrations with customer service. The initiative includes an AI-powered assistant for instant, personalized help with account recovery on Facebook, with ...
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