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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…
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has proposed a new set of draft regulations to govern AI-aided synthesis systems, including deepfakes, virtual reality scenes, text generation, audio, and other sub-sectors of AI media synthesis – a field in which China produces a prodigious…
Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation have filed takedown notices against “deepfake” videos that use artificial intelligence to make him rap Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire and Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. The anonymous creator of the YouTube-hosted videos,…
YouTube recently reiterated its commitment to banning deepfake videos in the US 2020 election. While this ban on technically manipulated videos of political figures isn’t new and has been in place since the last presidential election in 2016, it illustrates just how increasingly…
The mayors of several European capitals have been duped into holding video calls with a deepfake of their counterpart in Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko. The mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, took part in a scheduled call on the Webex video conferencing platform on Friday…
