Chaos & Amazement #2429 Kamala Harris on TikTok, SearchGPT, and my NYPD Cop Doppelganger

This week's newsletter is your usual mix of tech news, AI stuff, and some oddball internet finds. Enjoy!

Tech News

• Deepfake videos of VP Kamala Harris are spreading on TikTok and X as she prepares to become the Democratic nominee for president. The fake clips show Harris giving a nonsensical speech she never actually made. Deepfakes will be an important issue in the 2024 U.S. election. https://mashable.com/article/kamala-harris-deepfake-twitter-x-tiktok

  • Meanwhile the real Kamala Harris joined TikTok, following an explosion of Harris memes since announcing her presidential run. Her account attracted 400K+ followers in ~2 hours https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/kamala-harris-tiktok-1236085719/

    

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Fresh AI

• ChatGPT is testing SearchGPT, a new AI search engine that combines AI models with current web info. It aims to provide faster, up-to-date answers with clear sources. Join the waitlist to try it out: https://chatgpt.com/search This move may address concerns about copyright issues in AI training data.

• Chinese tech company Kuaishou has launched Kling AI, a new video generator available worldwide. It can create 2-minute HD videos from text or image inputs. https://kling.kuaishou.com/

  While impressive, it has limitations on politically sensitive content and slow generation times. Kling joins other AI video tools like Runway's Gen-3 and Luma Labs' Dream Machine in competing with OpenAI's upcoming Sora.

Weird and Wonderful

• Two friends, lovers, soulmates, a pair of two, searching and ultimately finding each other. This pair traveling between worlds and changing forms, expressed through 15 styles of animation, by 15 animators from across the world.

• Coppelganger is a tool that shows you what NYPD cop a machine learning model thinks you most resemble. Find the cop lurking deep inside yourself by visiting coppelganger.lav.io. Apparently, I’m the spitting image of Jessica Gonzalez of the NYPD: