Performance, Efficiency, and Benchmarks

Welcome back to The FAIK Files!

In this week's episode:

• Google announces the Gemini 3 collection and the new Antigravity IDE.
• New research reveals how AI-edited images and videos can successfully implant false memories.
• We look at Parallel Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models.
• Russian bloggers are using AI-generated videos to depict false scenarios regarding Ukrainian troops.

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES  ***

Gemini 3 and Antigravity:

• Gemini 3 Overview: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-collection/
• Gemini 3 Pro: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/pro/
• Gemini 3 Pro Model Card: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-Pro-Model-Card.pdf
• Generative UI: https://research.google/blog/generative-ui-a-rich-custom-visual-interactive-user-experience-for-any-prompt/
• Antigravity IDE: https://antigravity.google/product
• Ethan Mollick’s Blog Post: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini

AI-Edited Images and Videos Can Implant False Memories and Distort Recollection:

• AI-edited images and especially AI-generated videos can cause people to confidently remember events that never happened.
• Paper: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/162835/3706598.3713697.pdf
• Participants were first shown original images, then after a delay they were shown a stimulus corresponding to their assigned condition, and later memory tests were applied to check recall and confidence.
• Across 200 participants: AI-generated videos made from AI-edited images created 2.05× more false memories.
• They were also more confident in those false memories (1.19× increase)

Parallel Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models:

• Sent in by Discord member and future paperclip “Bullethead”!
• The Github Repo: https://github.com/tyfeld/MMaDA-Parallel
• Try it on Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/MMaDA-Parallel-A
• The Research Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09611

Russian bloggers push AI-made videos of 'fleeing' Ukrainian troops:

• https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/b0004x68
• Dealing with the larger issues on Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fridon-kiria-5088687_today-i-had-the-opportunity-to-work-on-two-activity-7394432902073319424-ttgJ/

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***

About The FAIK Files:

The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.

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