Tech & Science Daily podcast: Artist refuses photo prize after AI confession

Artist refuses photo prize after AI confession
Boris Eldagsen

A photographer who won a top Sony World Photography Award has turned down the prize, after admitting his entry was actually created by artificial intelligence.

German artist Boris Eldagsen said that he submitted the artwork to find out if the competitions were prepared for AI images to enter, and he concluded that "they are not".

Encrypted messaging services including WhatsApp, Signal and Element have signed an open letter opposing the Online Safety Bill, over a clause that they say would undermine their users’ secure messages.

Matthew Hodgson, CEO of Element, told Tech & Science Daily the bill would allow the government to obligate encrypted messaging apps to allow the scanning of people’s private messages.

Elon Musk has claimed he’s working on his own artificial intelligence model, which he called ‘TruthGPT’.

Musk told Fox News he’s working on a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.

New analysis suggests poor diet contributed to more than 14.1 million cases of type 2 diabetes in 2018 - more than 70 per cent of new diagnoses across the world.

Researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in the US looked at data from 1990 to 2018, and found three key factors that had a big contribution to the rising global incidence of type 2 diabetes.

These were insufficient intake of whole grains like oats and whole wheat, excesses of refined rice and wheat, and the overconsumption of processed meat.

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