Deepfake porn is out of control

PLUS: None of Your Photos Are Real, and more. [View this email in your browser]( | [Manage newsletter subscriptions]( [10.16.23](   [Multiple eyes as options over a blurred image of a girl's selfie.]( DIGITAL CULTURE | 4-MINUTE READ [None of Your Photos Are Real]( BY JASON PARHAM [Tools like Google’s Pixel 8 AI photo editor are ushering in a deepening distrust of everything we see. Welcome to our new counterfeit reality.](   [A scale with a plant on one side, being outweighed by a chrome brain on the other.]( PLANTING SEEDS | 4-MINUTE READ [A ‘Green’ Search Engine Sees Danger—and Opportunity—in the Generative AI Revolution]( BY PETER GUEST [Berlin-based Ecosia carved out a niche as a carbon-negative search engine. To adapt to the ChatGPT era, it’s moving closer to Google and exploring how AI could help users cut carbon emissions.](   [Jabra Elite 8 Active Earbuds]( BUYING GUIDE | 12-MINUTE READ [The Best Wireless Earbuds for Working Out]( BY ADRIENNE SO [Rock your inner jock with a pair of sturdy, sweatproof, and tangle-proof headphones. Here are our favorites.]( Shopping season is just around the corner and WIRED is here to help. [Sign up for our Deals newsletter](newsletter=wirdeals) to make sure you know about the best deals, sales, and WIRED-tested recommendations. [SIGN ME UP](newsletter=wirdeals)   [A collage of faceless women with a glowing search engine user interface on top of it.]( DIGITAL ABUSE | 5-MINUTE READ [Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control]( BY MATT BURGESS [New research shows the number of deepfake videos is skyrocketing—and the world’s biggest search engines are funneling clicks to dozens of sites dedicated to the nonconsensual fakes.]( ADVERTISEMENT [GET WIRED]( [Our Fall Sale is Officially live! Subscribe to WIRED for only $29.99 $5. That includes subscriber-only content like Steven Levy's Plaintext column,]([plus FREE WIRED stickers as a special bonus!](   [Woman placing a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) on their arm.]( SUGAR RUSH | 6-MINUTE READ [The Problematic Rise of Personalized Nutrition]( BY GRACE BROWNE AND MATT REYNOLDS [Some doctors warn that personalized nutrition apps like Zoe can cause otherwise well patients an unhealthy amount of worry.](   [A tractor with a ripper drives the harvest through the rows of the hop garden]( BREWMASTERS | 5-MINUTE READ [How Hop Nerds Are Saving Your Favorite Beer From Climate Change]( BY MATT SIMON [Extreme heat and droughts are cutting into hop plants’ yields and making them less bitter. But scientists and farmers are brewing up clever solutions.](   [Nectar Premier Mattress]( LAY OF THE LAND | 8-MINUTE READ [The Best Mattresses for Side Sleepers]( BY MARTIN CIZMAR [The stats say most people prefer to snooze on their sides. If that’s you, then you might want to check out these WIRED-tested beds.](   [Oskarina Vero Fuentes]( INVISIBLE LABOR | 4-MINUTE READ [Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies]( BY NIAMH ROWE [From the Philippines to Colombia, low-paid workers label training data for AI models used by the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.](   [Starfield landscape]( GAME OVER | 1-MINUTE READ [Starfield Dev Bethesda Just Lost One of Its Most Important Executives]( BY MEGAN FAROKHMANESH [After 24 years with the company and the launch of Starfield, Peter Hines, Bethesda’s head of publishing, is leaving.](   Looking for a new job? Check out these featured listings and search for openings all over the world on [jobs.wired.com](. [Senior Risk Solutions Structurer]( [Coinbase]( Location: Remote, USA [APPLY NOW]( [Technical Baseline Systems Engineer]( [ENSCO, Inc.]( [Location: El Segundo, CA, USA]( [APPLY NOW]( ADVERTISEMENT [(image) WIRED Logo]( [(image) WIRED on Facebook]( [(image) WIRED on Twitter]( [(image) WIRED on Instagram]( [(image) WIRED on LinkedIn]( [(image) WIRED on YouTube]( [Podcasts]( [TikTok]( Have questions or comments? [Reply to this email](mailto:hello@wired.com?subject=WIRED%20Newsletter%20Questions,%20Comments%20or%20Feedback). This email was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our email address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( or [Manage your newsletter subscriptions]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.