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It’s hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. If one of your executives or your company is the victim of deepfakes, what’s IT going to do about it? Deepfakes (aka synthetic media) can spread misinformation and disinformation very effectively. The 2020…
“Seeing is believing” or is it? There once was a time when we could have confidence that what we saw depicted in photos and videos was real. Even when Photoshopping images became popular, we still knew that the images started as originals….
LAST WEEK, MONA Lisa smiled. A big, wide smile, followed by what appeared to be a laugh and the silent mouthing of words that could only be an answer to the mystery that had beguiled her viewers for centuries. A great many people…
The idea is to warn the public over the dangers of the technology, which can be used to create legitimate-looking clips of any person saying anything. The broadcaster has published a preview of the speech, which will air alongside The Queen’s traditional…
“Hell is when other people are fake” — Jean-Paul Sartre writing in 2020. Have you ever read Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous play No Exit? The main character, Garcin, cries out “Hell is—other people!” after realizing hell is not torture racks and fire, but…
The deepfake technology I’m taking about is from a Berlin-based startup called Brighter AI, which provides privacy solutions for an increasingly surveilled world: license plate blurring and face blurring so companies with cameras can comply with European privacy laws, especially GDPR. Now, the…
Synthetic media — be it text, audio and especially deep fake videos — form what Omer Benjakob correctly labels a “new front” in the battle against fake news: smart and lean online forces established specifically to spread disinformation, to produce oppressive pornographic images, or…
In Russian novelist Victor Pelevin’s cyberpunk novel, Homo Zapiens, a poet named Babylen Tatarsky is recruited by an old college buddy to be an advertising copywriter in Moscow amid post-Soviet Russia’s economic collapse. With a talent for clever wordplay, Tatarsky quickly climbs the…
Deepfakes are synthetic media, usually videos, created with deep learning technology. By manipulating images, videos, and voices of real people, a deepfake can portray someone doing things they never did, or saying things they never said. By feeding a machine learning model thousands…
AT A HEARING of the House Intelligence Committee in June 2019, experts warned of the democracy-distorting potential of videos generated by artificial intelligence, known as deepfakes. Chair Adam Schiff (D-California) played a clip spoofing Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and called on social media companies to take the threat…
