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'Grave step backwards': Meta shuts monitoring tool in election year
'Grave step backwards': Meta shuts monitoring tool in election year
by  AFP

A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation. The tool also made dashboards available to the public to track what major candidates were posting on their official and campaign pages.

OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool
OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool
by  AFP

OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners. A model called "Voice Engine" can essentially duplicate someone's speech based on a 15-second audio sample, according to an OpenAI blog post sharing results of a small-scale test of the tool.