X reported a significant surge in traffic during the Super Bowl weekend – but the majority of that traffic was allegedly fake. The social media giant claimed impressions, user posts and video views were up 31%, 41% and 75% year-on-year respectively. However, 75.85% of the traffic from X to...
I knew it was going to be bad. By the time I sat down to watch the thing, much of the internet was already furious that a “state-of-the-art-entertainment AI” called Dudesy had generated an hourlong comedy special in the style of George Carlin, without the consent of the late comic’s...
AI-generated video spots featuring the likeness of Taylor Swift endorsing a fake Le Creuset cookware giveaway have duped some fans into buying into the scam, the New York Times reported. While Swift may be a fan of Le Creuset, she has no official marketing ties to the company. But ads...
Google published a blog post that shared that they updated their machine learning systems in order to catch and remove more fake reviews, fake business listings and fraudulent contributed images and videos. The automated systems and human review teams removed over 200 million photos, 7...
Did you know Google can now detect if scammers are overlaying fake phone numbers in user-contributed photos within Google Maps and automatically detect and block those photos from displaying on business listings within the local search results? Google has released some information on its...
