A German artist made waves last week after he revealed that his winning submission in this year’s Sony World Photography Awards was actually generated by AI.

The stunt, the artist said, was intended to start a conversation about realism in the age of AI, and was the latest example of just how easy it has become for media spawned by AI to deceive even the most discerning viewers.

Andy Parsons, senior director at the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), sees incidents like these as a “wake-up call.” The CAI is a consortium of around 1,000 members, including companies ranging from big-name media outlets and camera makers to tech startups, collectively working to craft a set of standards that they claim could guarantee the authenticity of digital content.

Adobe first formed the group in 2019, but its mandate has become more urgent as new AI tools have made the technology more sophisticated and accessible in the past year or so. That has resulted in viral fake news videos and photos, like one of Donald Trump being arrested in Manhattan, and led Getty Images (which is a CAI member) to ban AI-generated content from being uploaded to its platform.

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On top of taking photos, making calls, running apps, and serving as a payment method, the iPhone can now hold your savings account.

Last week, Apple announced a high-yield savings account. The product, which is managed by Goldman Sachs, is available for Apple Card users and boasts a 4.15% annual percentage yield (APY), a rate that Apple claims is more than 10x the national average. The account has no fees and no minimum balance or deposit requirements.

Users who open an account will see any cash back earned through the Apple Card’s Daily Cash feature automatically deposited into their new savings account.

So why the latest foray into fintech for the longtime producer of hardware?

“Apple’s strategy is pretty clear. They just want to be a part of everyday life. Whether it’s your financial, whether it’s your shopping habits, whether it’s at some point even medical, they just want to kind of get into all aspects of it,” Marc DeCastro, research director for consumer banking at IDC Financial Insights, told Tech Brew.

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Stat: 46%. The percentage of US voters who said they support banning TikTok, according to a Wall Street Journal poll. By political party, though, it was a different story: 62% of GOP voters said they support a ban, compared to just 33% of Democrats.

Quote: “The locals here are just being sacrificed.”—Sharon Almaguer, a resident of Port Isabel, Texas, to the New York Times following the launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, which kicked up dust and debris when it lifted off from Boca Chica, six miles from Port Isabel

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