DisinfoDocket 8 July
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Highlights
- EU unveils cyber plan to reduce reliance on foreign AI systems (The Record, 8 July)
- Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics (BBC, 8 July)
- Russia begins jamming Starlink to counter Ukrainian drones, Reuters reports (Meduza, 8 July)
- A hybrid attention-based spatio-temporal model for deepfake video detection (Nature, 8 July)
1. Academia & Research
- Will American Power in Europe Run Out? (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 6 July)
- Large language models can predict the results of social science experiments (Nature, 8 July)
2. Platforms & Technology
- Vetting Foreign AI Talent: Security Without Exclusion (Just Security, 7 July)
- Data centers should benefit the cities that power them (Rest of World, 8 July)
- The UN Scientific Panel on AI's Preliminary Report Does Not Establish Its Independence (Tech Policy Press, 8 July)