Vanderbilt University: Vanderbilt University Institute of National Security Awarded $2.5 Million Grant from William & Flora Hewlett Foundation to Advance Research on AI-Driven Information Warfare. “Led by the Institute’s Wicked Problems Lab, Project SIFT responds to the growing threat of AI-driven propaganda and influence campaigns—an issue the Lab brought to national attention in The New […]

Radio New Zealand: How fake NZ news pages are swamping Facebook with AI slop. “A flood of ‘fake NZ news’ pages are swamping social media with misleading slop, including using AI to animate still photos of a Mount Maunganui landslide victim. Dodgy Facebook pages devoted to churning out AI-generated images and videos are almost unavoidable on the site now – and they’re still fooling an awful lot […]

British Museum Deletes AI-Generated Pictures After Backlash https://petapixel.com/2026/02/04/british-museum-deletes-ai-generated-pictures-after-backlash/ #humancreativity #britishmuseum #aigenerated #Technology #aipictures #aiimages #backlash #london #News

Reuters: Exclusive-Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images – even when told subjects didn’t consent. “Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found.”

Associated Press: Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes. “French prosecutors searched the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.”

Darren Aronofsky Debuts AI-Generated Series on the American Revolution https://petapixel.com/2026/02/02/darren-aronofsky-debuts-ai-generated-series-on-the-american-revolution/ #americanrevolution #revolutionarywar #darrenaronofsky #googledeepmind #aigenerated #reenactment #Technology #aivideo #history #aislop #News #1776

#AIImages of fake Rock Band help propel them to half a million Spotify listeners: https://zorz.it/pJLaQ

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112.UA: AI-Generated Deepfakes: Russia’s New Propaganda Tool Targets Ukrainian Soldiers.. “According to UATV: Russian propagandists are now employing artificial intelligence to fabricate convincing deepfake videos. These forgeries falsely depict Ukrainian soldiers complaining about a lack of resources, according to a report from Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under the […]

Civil Society: Major charities leave X after AI images controversy. “Major charities including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have stopped posting on social media platform X due to controversy surrounding its artificial intelligence tool’s image-creating function.”

Gizmodo: NFL-Related Accounts on Facebook Are Posting Some of the Most Shameless AI Slop Yet. “There’s a group of accounts on Facebook that claims to be a bunch of fan accounts for various National Football League teams. But a quick scroll through these pages, each sporting a couple thousand followers, reveals misinformation paired with a series of seemingly AI-generated photos. Based on the […]