Ronan Browne
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Video: Can Finnish fast food win over Italy? (opens the original)
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Hesburger plans to open an outlet in the city of Matera, in southern Italy, next month. The move marks the Finnish fast food chain's first step into the Italian market, but reaction in the region has been mixed. Locals are proud of Matera's reputation as a bastion of Italian food culture â and Hesburger's expansion along with a separate recent arrival in the city by McDonald's is not to everyone's taste. Hesburger's plans also represent a new chapter in a feisty culinary rivalry between Finlan
Video: Why are AI-generated lies about Finland flooding social media? (opens the original)
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"In Finland, schools are shaped like forests â each classroom is inside a dome covered in real moss." "Finland successfully transmits electric power through the air without using physical wires." The above are just two examples of the many strange â and misleading â claims about Finland that have started to pop up on social media timelines in recent years. But what is behind this wave of disinformation? The images that accompany the texts are clearly generated by artificial intelligence (A
Video: Is Google's â¬13bn investment good news for Finland? (opens the original)
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Earlier this week, search engine giant Google unveiled its plans to invest some 13 billion euros in Finland over the next two years. The money will be used to build data centres as well as supporting infrastructure in three different locations around the Oulu and Kajaani regions, and the outlay represents Google's largest single investment in Europe to date. Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) lauded the move, telling a press conference on Wednesday that the expansion of Google's operation
"People don't know it's happening" â Deepfake crisis spreads across Finnish schools, workplaces and military (opens the original)
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Ella (not her real name) froze in disbelief when she discovered there were nude photos of her being circulated on pornographic websites. "Can this really happen? It felt like a nightmare at first. Then the shock and panic hit," she recalled. The nude images of Ella were not real, but instead someone had created them using artificial intelligence (AI) by manipulating photos taken from her social media accounts. The phenomenon of so-called 'deepfake' images has spread rapidly in recent years, driv
APN Podcast on Video: Finland's deepfake epidemic (opens the original)
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The use of fake nude images, otherwise known as 'deepfakes', is a disturbing and rapidly spreading phenomenon in Finland. Over the past year, Yle has uncovered cases including the distribution of explicit deepfakes of women volunteers in the defence forces, the man who allegedly manipulated photos of his female friends, relatives and co-workers, as well as evidence that a young boy created nude images of dozens of underage girls. Deepfakes are digitally manipulated images or videos, usually crea
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