Company
Date Published
Author
Austin Kodra
Word count
928
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Comet Newsletter's sixth issue explores several cutting-edge topics, including Facebook's collaboration with Michigan State University to develop a method for detecting deepfakes, which have seen a significant increase online and present security concerns. This detection system aims to reverse-engineer AI-generated images by identifying unique patterns or "fingerprints" left by the generative models. The newsletter also highlights Hugging Face's new free NLP course, designed to help users build NLP applications, and Deepnote's free Teams Plan for collaborative data science work. Additionally, it examines the controversial use of autonomous weaponized drones, as seen in a 2020 Libya airstrike, raising ethical and security issues regarding unmanned systems targeting humans. The Future of Life Institute calls for a moratorium on such lethal autonomous weapons, emphasizing the risk of them becoming new weapons of mass destruction.