Enlarge / An AI-generated image of Donald Trump and catgirls created with Grok, which uses the Flux image synthesis model. reader comments 75 On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI announced the beta release of two new language models, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, available to subscribers of his social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The… Read More »
Enlarge / An unmarked AI-generated image of China’s flag, which will be illegal in China after January 10, 2023. Ars Technica reader comments 29 with 0 posters participating Share this story China’s Cyberspace Administration recently issued regulations prohibiting the creation of AI-generated media without clear labels, such as watermarks—among other policies—reports The Register. The new… Read More »
Enlarge / Images generated by ERNIE-ViLG from the prompt “China” superimposed over China’s flag. Ars Technica reader comments 13 with 11 posters participating Share this story China’s leading text-to-image synthesis model, Baidu’s ERNIE-ViLG, censors political text such as “Tiananmen Square” or names of political leaders, reports Zeyi Yang for MIT Technology Review. Image synthesis has… Read More »
Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images reader comments 56 with 44 posters participating Share this story Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within Russia saw their Internet speed slow to a crawl, no… Read More »
Enlarge / What’s happened to Russia’s flag? reader comments 58 with 49 posters participating Share this story Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the… Read More »
reader comments 42 with 30 posters participating, including story author Share this story This is https://speed.gulag.link/, a speedtest application that demonstrates Roskomnadzor throttling to Russian users it impacts. Jim Salter This is the Google-translated version of the gulag.link screenshot to the left. Jim Salter Last night, a confidential source at a Russian ISP contacted Ars… Read More »
Enlarge / The head of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), Andrei Lipov, during a meeting with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, at the Moscow Kremlin. Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS (Photo by Alexei NikolskyTASS via Getty Images) reader comments 61 with 52 posters participating, including… Read More »
reader comments 24 with 19 posters participating Share this story Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft said they’re joining forces to stop Kazakhstan’s government from decrypting and reading HTTPS-encrypted traffic sent between its citizens and overseas social media sites. All four of the companies’ browsers recently received updates that block a root certificate the government has… Read More »