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Ukraine replaces official spokesperson with AI-Avatar + Camera creates nudes

Ukraine replaces official spokesperson with AI-Avatar + Camera creates nudes

Also: The pope is worried about AI

Philip Mohr
May 03, 2024

Hey, it’s Philip.

Today we are covering the first AI-Avatar as an official spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, a camera producing deepfake nudes and more.

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THIS WEEKS RUNDOWN

Synthesia releases new models for its AI-Avatars to make them more realistic and emotional - Link
Adobe Photoshop gets in-app generative fill features - Link
Apple pulls apps from its app store that could be used to create nude deepfakes - Link
The pope plans to attend G7 to discuss AI-risks - Link
Microsoft released its AI Transparency Report - Link

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Ukraine foreign ministry creates AI-Avatar “Victoria” as official spokeswoman to save time for diplomats

👋 Meet Victoria Shi — a digital representative of the MFA of Ukraine, created using AI to provide timely updates on consular affairs!
For the first time in history, the MFA of Ukraine has presented a digital persona that will officially comment for the media.
— MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine)
6:33 AM • May 1, 2024

Ukraine has introduced the world's first AI diplomat, Victoria Shi, an AI-generated avatar serving as the digital spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Victoria will only present human created content and mainly aims to reduce efforts of communicating information.

To authenticate and provide provenance each statement by Shi will feature a unique QR code that allows anyone verifies the content on the Ministry's official website to forego deepfakes.

Trend: Using AI-Avatars to cheaply and fast create video content is a trend that is accelerating as companies like Synthesia or Heygen make it very easy to create text to video models with custom AI avatars.

This camera creates deepfake nudes of anyone

credit: NUCA

This camera (a hacked smartphone) and its cloud-based AI model reconstructs what it predicts a person's naked body would look like based on data about their gender, face, age, and body shape and creates a deepfake nude of anyone within 10 seconds of a simple portrait.

It was created by two german artists to raise awareness for the issue and ease of potential misuse of AI technology. Source

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