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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Scores of Bollywood AI videos vanish from YouTube after Reuters story Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google's YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple to protect their rights.

"Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google's YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple to protect their rights."

The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables Covert operations in waters surrounding the British Isles pose a grave threat to critical infrastructure and a fresh challenge to Nato

„Using radar data collected by European Space Agency satellites, the FT was able to locate the spy ship hovering over critical cables in the middle of the Irish Sea in November, at a point in the voyage when the ship was seeking to hide its activities.“

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Deepfake selfdebunking as misinformation correction method –what could possibly go wrong here? www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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KI-Fakevideos: Wie künstliche Intelligenz die Wahrheit ertränkt Mit wenig Aufwand kann heute jeder täuschend echte Videos erzeugen, die komplette Lügen sind. Rutschen wir in ein Zeitalter der Desinformation, in dem sich Fakt und Fake nicht mehr unterscheiden lassen?

Mit wenig Aufwand kann heute jeder täuschend echte Videos erzeugen, die komplette Lügen sind. Rutschen wir in ein Zeitalter der Desinformation, in dem sich Fakt und Fake nicht mehr unterscheiden lassen?

Meta ran 4,000 more ads for AI nudifiers. That may not be the worst part. The company is making it easy for the advertisers to conceal their identity

Mandatory impact statement: @indicator.media's article led Meta to delete hundreds of AI nudifier ads and at least 20 pages and accounts. Apple also banned two related apps. Google ignored our request for comment about a related app available on the Play store.

indicator.media/p/meta-ran-4...

(S+) Affäre um CDU-Politiker: Dieses Foto zeigt Jens Spahn bei einem geheimnisumwitterten Spendendinner Ein Leipziger PR-Mann hat Spenden für Ex-Gesundheitsminister Spahn beschafft, half ihm mit Plakaten im Wahlkampf. Hat er etwas mit einem lukrativen Maskenauftrag zu tun, den sein Ex-Mitarbeiter ergatt...

"Wäre das Foto damals schon ans Licht gekommen, [...], es hätte #Spahn den Ministerjob kosten können." ... "Das Problem mit diesem Foto ist heute ein anderes: Es wirft erneut ein Schlaglicht auf die Netzwerke, die Spahn knüpft." Starke Recherche. #9900€Spendendinner 👇 www.spiegel.de/panorama/jen...

Australia says it will force web giants to prevent deepfake nudes, online stalking Australia's government said Tuesday it would start drafting legislation to crack down on tools used to create AI-generated nude images and stalk people. Authorities pledged to work with industry partn...

Good to see the onus being put on platforms to expunge AI nudifiers from their services -- and ideally not provide them essential services (Amazon, Cloudflare are used by many)

www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...

I'm looking for an expert in Google Ads monetization to help me estimate how much a network of spammy websites may be making. Anyone recommend anyone?

Yeah, at least I feel like this will become increasingly important with all this AI slop littering the web. Not even talking deepfakes here. Even it‘s clearly visible that it‘s artificially generated, it might be nice to know for sake of transparency what tool it was generated with.

They also experiment with non-visible marks, it’s called SynthID. It’s meant to withstand cropping and manipulation. Been looking into this recently, but there isn‘t much out there yet. That‘s why I hijacked your original posting. Sorry for that - great ai art, of course. 😉

Google introduces small watermark to Veo 3 videos To the casual scroller, Veo 3's watermark may be tough to spot.

Thank you for sharing. Can‘t see one either. Apparently there should be marking bottom right. Might be white on white? Or different model, true. mashable.com/article/goog...

Is this generated by veo 3? Thought Google watermarks its ai images by now.

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the s...

Thank you for crediting our work, like our recent investigation into Clothoff 🙏https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/using-ai-to-humiliate-women-the-men-behind-deepfake-pornography-a-0de338f9-9cec-4ae8-a5ef-9a356b0a5bd4

AI Nudifiers continue to reach millions and make millions We estimate that the nudifier economy is worth up to $36 million a year

Thorough reporting on the #nudifier eco system by @indicator.media - @santi4dc.bsky.social. Updates figures on distribution, monetization and reach of multiple nudify apps and the scene overall. indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)

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Multiple orgs that did rapid response analysis of content and rumors during chaos in 2020 don’t exist anymore -ie, Jim Jordan et al killed SIO.

Some pretty handy tools -like Crowdtangle- no longer exist. The Twitter/X API costs $$$ now, so OSINT tools died.

And we need these things more than ever.

(S+) Deepfakes: Die Männer hinter den Fake-Pornos Gefälschte Nacktfotos von realen Frauen: Unter der dubiosen KI-App Clothoff leiden vor allem junge Mädchen. Nun packt ein Whistleblower über das skrupellose Geschäft aus.

Die Männer hinter den Fake-Pornos: Unter der #KI-App #Clothoff leiden vor allem junge Mädchen. Nun packt ein Whistleblower aus.

"Die Bilder kursierten in WhatsApp-Gruppen im Wohnort der Familie, die 14-Jährige wird auf der Straße auf die Fakes angesprochen &gemobbt"

www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/app...

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.

A more recent @bellingcat.com investigation focused on MrDeepfakes a platform for deep faked porn videos: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

Revealed: the names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals names connected to app that generated non-consensual images of children around the world

Around the same time @theguardian.com published its findings: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Behind a Secretive Global Network of Non-Consensual Deepfake Pornography - bellingcat An online video game marketplace says it has referred user accounts to legal authorities after a Bellingcat investigation found nonconsensual pornographic deepfake tokens were being surreptitiously so...

For further reading, there are also three more pieces with great background information on Clothoff and the industry in general (I bet there are more, but let's start with these three):

@bellingcat.com published this major investigation about a year ago: www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/02...

Artificial Intelligence and Deepfakes: The Growing Problem of Fake Porn Images Thousands of women have been victimized by fake porn images created by artificial intelligence. The victims include minors, celebrities and politicians. DER SPIEGEL went searching for those behind the...

And here's our previous investigation into Clothoff from late 2024 [in English, no paywall]. cc @christobuschek.net @romanhoefner.bsky.social @mkboehm.bsky.social www.spiegel.de/internationa...

(S+) Deepfakes: Die Männer hinter den Fake-Pornos Gefälschte Nacktfotos von realen Frauen: Unter der dubiosen KI-App Clothoff leiden vor allem junge Mädchen. Nun packt ein Whistleblower über das skrupellose Geschäft aus.

News from notorious #nudify app #Clothoff. A whistleblower from within the deep nude app reached out to my colleague @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social and shared details regarding their business model, employees and a specific campaign involving European celebrities. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/app...

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(S+) Das steht im AfD-Gutachten des Verfassungsschutzes: 1108 Seiten Sprengstoff Die AfD droht mit »Krieg gegen die Regierung«, beklagt einen »Messer-Dschihad« auf deutschen Straßen und fordert »millionenfache Remigration«: Dem SPIEGEL liegt das 1108 Seiten lange Verfassungsschutz...

Die AfD droht mit »Krieg gegen die Regierung«, beklagt einen »Messer-Dschihad« auf deutschen Straßen und überwies Hunderttausende Euro an Rechtsextremisten. Was der Verfassungsschutz der AfD in seinem 1108 Seiten langen Gutachten vorwirft. Die SPIEGEL-Recherche.

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...