Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversation.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Monday that a dozen deepfake websites, which used AI to generate photos of roughly 1,200 people, have been seized. New York state passed a law in 2023 barring AI-generated explicit images without the person’s consent.
MapQuest is making an unexpected comeback after defying Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario to "Lake America." MapQuest General Manager Doug Berger told Erin Burnett that usage is "through the roof," with downloads surging to more than 1.5 million. "It was not intended to be a political stance...it's fun that we're talking about geography," Berger added.
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.