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From Stephanie Lepp to Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, artists are using AI to reveal the fragility of our trust in basic information
Barack Obama never said: ‘President Trump is a total and complete dipshit.’ But, in 2018, a deepfake of him did. Deepfakes are synthetic videos (or speech, or text) created by a machine-learning algorithm that allows you to make faces, voices and even bodies look like they are saying, doing or writing something they didn’t. They rely on a type of deep learning called generative adversarial networks, in which two neural networks combine to generate a convincing replica: one creates fake images (here are some faces that look like Obama talking), while the other tries to judge if they are fake (this doesn’t look like Obama – do better), so the result is constantly improved until you have something that looks very like the former US president. Deepfakes are made using real training
Is there a statute of limitations on racism and anti-Semitism?
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Is there a statute of limitations on racism and anti-Semitism?
Biden’s choice to run the civil-rights division of the Department of Justice engaged in public racial incitement as a student leader at Harvard. Should that disqualify her for high office now?
(January 13, 2021 / JNS)
The New York Times demonstrated the depths to which cancel culture has sunk when it played a role last month in helping to destroy the life of a young woman for an offensive remark she made when she was 15 years old. The newspaper devoted space on the front page of a Sunday edition to tell the story of how a biracial young man saw a three-second video posted on Snapchat in which a white classmate used a racist slur. Rather than call out the offender at the time for using the “N”-word when celebrating getting her learner’s permit to drive, the teenager saved the video and decided to hold onto it until its release coul
Rand Paul just blocked a bill to protect judges following the killing of N.J. federal judge’s son
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Daniel Anderl, left, receiving his high school diploma in 2018 from Bishop James F. Checcio of St. Joseph High School in Metuchen. The son of U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, he was killed by a gunman at their family home in North Brunswick in July.(Photo courtesy of St. Joseph)
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After U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas’ son was gunned down at their home in North Brunswick in July, U.S. Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker vowed to pass legislation to protect members of the federal judiciary by keeping their personal information secret.
Rand Paul just blocked a bill to protect judges following the killing of N.J. federal judge’s son
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Daniel Anderl, left, receiving his high school diploma in 2018 from Bishop James F. Checcio of St. Joseph High School in Metuchen. The son of U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, he was killed by a gunman at their family home in North Brunswick in July.(Photo courtesy of St. Joseph)
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After U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas’ son was gunned down at their home in North Brunswick in July, U.S. Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker vowed to pass legislation to protect members of the federal judiciary by keeping their personal information secret.