What If a Fake Audio Clip Destroyed Your Life Overnight?

What we’ll cover today:

• 🤖 Fake Audio Clip Ruins a Life

• 👀 Elon Musk Warns Against Sam Altman.

• 🔬 Gary Marcus: OpenAI Could Become the Most Orwellian Company Ever.

• 🔗 The Event Roundup

Fake Audio Clip Ruins a Life.

That’s exactly what happened to a school principal in Pikesville, Maryland.

A shocking, racist rant — supposedly from him — went viral, setting the internet on fire.

Outrage and threats followed quickly.

But here’s the twist: the clip wasn’t real.

It was an AI-generated deepfake, and it fooled almost everyone.

Here’s what went down:

• A racist audio clip surfaces, allegedly from the principal.

• The community explodes with anger, sharing the clip everywhere.

• Social media spreads it like wildfire, amassing millions of views.

• The principal receives death threats, and the school is on high alert.

• Police investigation reveals it was a deepfake created by the school’s athletics director.

Even after the truth came out, many people still believed in fake audio.

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1. Elon Musk Warns Against Sam Altman.

Elon Musk warns against Sam Altman controlling the most powerful AI

"I don't trust OpenAI or Sam Altman. I don't want the world's most powerful AI controlled by someone who is not trustworthy."

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2. Gary Marcus: OpenAI Could Become the Most Orwellian Company Ever.

AI expert Gary Marcus thinks OpenAI will be the 'most Orwellian company of all time.'

"My guess is that OpenAI is going to become the most Orwellian company of all time," he said in a discussion with Google veteran Peter Norvig at Stanford's Center for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence last week.

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1. The Nobel prize for physics goes to a pair who invented key AI techniques.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries, which enabled machine learning and were key to developing artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT.

2. AI-generated video purportedly showing the fiery aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut goes viral.

A video montage of airstrikes in Beirut, posted to X on Sunday night, showed massive fires on the city skyline—but the most dramatic scene was made by artificial intelligence.

The clip, which purported to show fiery footage of Israeli bombardment in Lebanon, was taken from a short video posted to TikTok five days earlier by the account under the username @digital.n0mad, whose bio on the app says they are an AI artist.

3. Intel Debuts AI Cloud With Gaudi 3 Chips, Inflection AI Partnership.

The semiconductor giant says it is partnering with Inflection AI for a new enterprise AI solution that will be available on Intel Tiber AI Cloud and as a server appliance next year.