AI is not our friend. Manipulating photos is nothing new, but AI has brought deceit to a new level. It's faster, and it's more convincing. Unfortunately, we've gotten to the point where we can't believe what we see or hear. Since I don't subscribe to NewScientist, I can't read the entire article, but you get the idea. If we can believe what we see and hear, we are going in a bad direction.

Deepfakes are out of control – is it too late to stop them?
AI-manipulated audio clips, images and videos have been used to harass people, scam money and influence elections, despite efforts to rein them in.
NewScientist

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Academic research is increasingly anthropomorphising technology – a trend that could mislead the public about how powerful artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge developments really are.
Myra Cheng and her colleagues at Stanford University, California, analysed the content of more than 655,000 academic publications released between May 2007 and September 2023, along with the headlines of approximately 14,000 news articles citing some of those papers. They rated the extent to which each text used human pronouns such as “he” and “she” rather than “it”, as well…
NewScientist

In yesterday's newspaper, the county executive called for "enhanced enforcement of traffic laws." Driving home this morning, there was a police car with radar. A few miles later, there was a state trooper. What I thought was interesting was that the trooper had his radar gun aimed at cars that had just passed him. If you think you are safe after you pass the radar, think again. The area where I've seen the most radar is on a four-lane, 45 mph stretch of Route 28. When it goes to two lanes, they don't bother very much. I like cruise control.