Big machine won’t stop election Deepfakes

Watermarking AI-Generated Content: Detecting Fake Images, Videos, and Texts to Make Sense of Humans

There needs to be a machine that interprets watermarks and flags them to a viewer or reader. That’s made more complex by mixed media content—like the audio, image, video, and text elements that can appear in a single TikTok video. For instance, someone might put real audio over an image or video that’s been manipulated. Platforms would need to figure out how to label a component that had been created using technology.

There are ways to alter the distribution of words in text to make it appear more frequently. These would not be seen by a human.

The White House says the companies’ “voluntary commitment” includes “developing robust technical mechanisms to ensure that users know when content is AI generated, such as a watermarking system,” as part of the effort to prevent AI from being used for “fraud and deception.”

People are concerned about this technology, but a way to tell human-generated content from artificial intelligence-generated stuff would be a good place to start. Consumers of generative text could “reveal AI” to quickly see what was written by a machine. The way we find,replace, copy, paste, and share content could change with the help of Artificial Intelligence in software products. Companies that mark their output in this way would create considerable market incentives. Teachers could insist that students leave the markings intact to leverage the power of generative AI while still showing their original thought. Non-GPT is the new non-GMO and brands that want to be transparent could definitely promise not to remove the marker.

It was only the latest example of how fake content can have troubling real-world effects. The tools to create fake images and videos, as well as pump out huge amounts of convincing text are now readily available thanks to the boom in generative artificial intelligence. We are entering a new age where it is increasingly difficult to differentiate what is real and what is not, according to misinformation experts.

Why Ai It Needs It Own Alphabet? Why An AI Isn’t Need It? What It Takes to Know to Make It Work for Itself

The internet is built on the principle of text being the fundamental building block. In Unicode, every character has a number. The Latin capital letter A is number 41. But there are plenty of other A’s in Unicode: There’s Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter A (Ａ, number EF BC A1), Mathematical Bold Capital A (𝐀, number F0 9D 90 80), Mathematical Sans-Serif Capital A (𝖠, F0 9D 96 A0), and plenty of others. Each A has its own name, its own Unicode value, and in some cases, its own font shape. Why not create a letter A just for AI?

There are three fundamental problems with these approaches. They have to have immense coordination. By contrast, a good AI markup solution would need to work seamlessly across billions of devices. The markings would have to survive being copied and pasted from one app, operating system, or platform to another. Second, any solution would have to be accessible to any human with an internet connection, without any training, immediately. With a software update it can be deployable to the whole world.

We have a solution that’s in plain sight. But to understand the elegance of this relatively simple hack, let’s first look at the alternatives and why they won’t work.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/to-watermark-ai-it-needs-its-own-alphabet/

From Coradiant to Just Evil Enough: An Introductory Review of Alistair Croll’s Influence on Business and Technology

Alistair Croll is an author, entrepreneur, and conference organizer. He founded Coradiant, the Year One Labs Accelerator, and the Digital Government conference. He chaired a world’s leading conference on data science and was a visiting executive at Harvard Business School. Alistair is the author of three books on technology and business, including the best-selling Lean Analytics, and is currently working on Just Evil Enough, a playbook for subversive thinking.