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Like many students, Liri has had several part-time jobs. A 23-year-old in Israel, she does waitressing and bartending gigs in Tel Aviv, where she goes to university. She also sells cars, works in retail, and conducts job interviews and onboarding sessions for…
Do you need money? Of course you do. If you can tolerate a degree of ambiguity and ethical gray zones, a startup will buy a digital deepfake copy of your face via which artificial intelligence software will sell people products and education…
Tom Cruise hits a golf ball just before looking into the camera and saying, “If you like what you are seeing, just wait to what’s coming next.” The video went viral on TikTok in February and is a deep fake. A deep fake is…
A combination of “deep learning” and “fake media,” a deepfake is manipulated video content that is nearly indistinguishable from authentic video. Deepfake creators often target celebrities, world leaders, and politicians, manipulating the video to portray the subject saying something they did not….
TORONTO — As fake videos generated by AI continue to become more convincing, what was once a tool to share laughs on the internet has grown into a worrying sector of digital media. Whether it’s a viral video of “Tom Cruise” doing…
Not long after the season two finale of The Mandalorian, when a de-aged Mark Hamill returned as Jedi knight Luke Skywalker, some fans were quick to notice how….off it looked. The credits for the series made it clear that this wasn’t actually Hamill on…
He’s a Beatle, baby, not a loser this time. In a new video using deepfake technology, what appears to be a younger, so much younger than today version of Paul McCartney is seen dancing through a hotel hallway and other scenes. Eventually, in an unnerving…
As voice cloning technology has become ever more effective, it is of increasing interest to actors… and cybercriminals. When Tim Heller first heard his cloned voice he says it was so accurate that “my jaw hit the floor… it was mind-blowing”. Voice…
The SIUE School of Business and the Canadian telephone company TELUS Communications recently co-sponsored and hosted the International Telecommunications Society webinar “Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse with Nina Schick,” addressing synthetic media and its broad implications. Nina Schick, an author, speaker and adviser who specializes in…
