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Gaby Del Valle

Gaby Del Valle

Policy Reporter

Gaby Del Valle is a policy reporter at The Verge. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right.

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AI-generated text probably won’t help you go viral.

OpenAI disrupted more than 20 foreign influence operations over the past year, according to its quarterly threat report. But there’s no “evidence of this leaning to meaningful breakthroughs in their ability to create substantially new malware or build viral audiences,” the report says.

AI has let foreign actors “more quickly and convincingly tailor synthetic content.” But so far, it isn’t reaching much of an audience.


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Look how they yassified my boy.

This obviously digitally altered photo of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), posted the morning after the vice presidential debate, is supposed to signify... masculinity? Strength? I don’t know, honestly.

It’d be a little more convincing if we hadn’t spent two hours looking at the man’s face — and listening to his lies — last night.


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The consultant behind the Biden deepfake robocall got fined $6 million by the FCC.

Steve Kramer, who hired a magician to spoof Biden’s voice, admitted in February to orchestrating the calls. The Biden deepfake, sent two days before New Hampshire’s primary, told voters not to show up to the polls.

“If you flood our phones with this junk, we will find you and you will pay,” FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel said Thursday.