Pornographic deepfakes are being weaponised at an alarming scale with at least 104,000 women targeted by a bot operating on the messaging app Telegram since July. The bot is used by thousands of people every month who use it to create nude…

Amere suspicion of doctored video can topple governments. It happened in Gabon, when the President recorded a video message that was awkwardly shot. The inconsistency was mistaken for being a product of deep fake and that led to a coup as the opposition assumed the…

A free, easy-to-use deepfake bot found on the Telegram messenger app has victimized tens of thousands of women by replacing the clothed parts of their bodies in photos with nudity. More than 100,000 of these nonconsensual sexual images have been posted publicly online, but the bot…

When celebrity porn and other deepfake videos went viral several years back they caught the world largely unprepared — few could believe just how convincingly AI had generated the fake images. We have since seen numerous breakthroughs in image synthesis algorithms and…

Deepfakes are media — often video but sometimes audio — that were created, altered, or synthesized with the aid of deep learning to attempt to deceive some viewers or listeners into believing a false event or false message. The original example of a deepfake…

Last week, the Washington Post reported what sounds like a match made in Hades: online dating sites are now hooking up with artificial intelligence startups that generate fake faces for use in ads. The dating sites hope this will enable them to project more diversity,…

If you thought that voice cloning and deepfakes are recent buzzwords, think again. The first original record of mimicking human voice dates back to 1779, in Russia. Professor Christian Kratzenstein built acoustic resonators that mimicked the human vocal tract when activated by…

Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. It was a viral meme using the technology that led her to research the possibility—and discover that it was super easy and completely free. Within a…

An MIT project reportedly has found that sophisticated deepfakes can be detected. In a finding that will be cheered by anyone concerned about a world in which nothing but face-to-face can be trusted, MIT researchers found that even the best deepfake systems…

Humans are susceptible to normalcy bias, which may leave us vulnerable to disinformation that reinforces our beliefs. Bias and susceptibility were evident during the 2016 US Presidential election and has plagued much of President Trump’s first four years in office. The term…