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When Aidan Ragan creates artificially generated images, he expects the people in his pictures to have knotty, veiny hands with more or less than five fingers. But this month, as he sat in his University of Florida class about AI in the…
In the opening session of his 2020 introductory course on deep learning, Alexander Amini, a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), invited a famous guest: former US President Barack Obama. “Deep learning is revolutionizing so many fields, from robotics…
Synthetic voice developer Play.ht published an imaginary conversation between Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died 11 years ago, and Joe Rogan this week. AI-generated voice clones of Rogan and Jobs gave deepfake voice to a script composed using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model for the…
Are you looking to make some cash? Are you not worried about the dark implications of AI and its potential uses with your likeness? Good news: There’s a company that wants to pay you to deepfake your face for commercial purposes. Hour One is…
Cracking down on deepfake revenge porn and nonconsensual porn has been difficult legally, partly due to regulation of mediums. There have been concerns recently about how deepfakes can be used to spread political misinformation, but that’s not the most common use for…
Natalie Monbiot, head of strategy at synthetic media company Hour One, dislikes the word “deepfakes.” “Deepfake implies unauthorized use of synthetic media and generative artificial intelligence — we are authorized from the get-go,” she told VentureBeat. She described the Tel Aviv- and…
Opinion Of late, the deepfake detection research community, which has since late 2017 been occupied almost exclusively with the autoencoder-based framework that premiered at that time to such public awe (and dismay), has begun to take a forensic interest in less stagnant architectures, including latent diffusion models…
Deepfakes aren’t new, but this AI-powered technology has emerged as a pervasive threat in spreading misinformation and increasing identity fraud. The pandemic made matters worse by creating the ideal conditions for bad actors to take advantage of organizations’ and consumers’ blindspots, further…
Some young people floss for a TikTok dance challenge. A couple posts a holiday selfie to keep friends updated on their travels. A budding influencer uploads their latest YouTube video. Unwittingly, each one is adding fuel to an emerging fraud vector that could become…
“Are you in a precarious situation? … You sound like you can’t talk.” Karah Preiss’ cousin Leslie accused her of being sleepy and distracted and eventually hung up, but didn’t guess the truth. Preiss had placed the call using a software clone…
