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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…
A team of researchers has found that biometric tests used by banks and cryptocurrency exchanges to verify users’ identities can be fooled by deepfake technology. In a report published on Wednesday, researchers with Sensity, a security firm focused on deepfake detection, demonstrated how it…
Google has quietly banned deepfake projects on its Colaboratory (Colab) service, putting an end to the large-scale utilization of the platform’s resources for this purpose. Colab is an online computing resource that allows researchers to run Python code directly through the browser…
IN BRIEF Miscreants can easily steal someone else’s identity by tricking live facial recognition software using deepfakes, according to a new report. Sensity AI, a startup focused on tackling identity fraud, carried out a series of pretend attacks. Engineers scanned the image of someone…
Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak. Early last year a TikTok of Tom Cruise doing a magic trick went viral. [CLIP: Deepfake of Tom Cruise says, “I’m going to show you some magic. It’s the real thing. I mean,…
Analysis For campaigners hoping that 2022 could be the year that deepfaked imagery falls within a stricter legal purview, the early indicators are unpromising. Last Thursday the European Parliament ratified amendments to the Digital Services Act (DSA, due to take effect in 2023), in regards…
The website is eye-catching for its simplicity. Against a white backdrop, a giant blue button invites visitors to upload a picture of a face. Below the button, four AI-generated faces allow you to test the service. Above it, the tag line boldly…
Deepfakes (aka synthetic media) can spread misinformation and disinformation very effectively. The 2020 US election is just one example, but the use of deepfakes isn’t limited to politics. In fact, representatives from a big brand company recently asked Avivah Litan, vice president…
An AI capable of express yourself with teasing and even flirting. That’s the power of Sonantic’s AI-generated voice, which has managed to mimic more complex aspects of human speech to make itself more convincing. According to the company, the key is that this…
China’s Cyberspace Administration released a draft rule that would place new oversight obligations on providers of deepfake technology. The regulation would cover “deep synthesis internet information services,” including any technology that generates text, images, audio, videos or virtual scenes based on deep learning. Popular…
