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Technology is powerful, it can make you believe in something that doesn’t even exist! If you thought technology is all about the positives, then welcome to the dark realities it has to offer. Technology can be dangerous, digital representations, manipulated videos pave…
In a preprint paper published on Arxiv.org, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Adobe Research describe the Swapping Autoencoder, a machine learning model designed specifically for image manipulation. They claim it can modify any image in a variety ways, including texture swapping, while…
A network of fictional journalists, analysts, and political consultants has been used to place opinion pieces favorable to certain Gulf states in a range of media outlets, an investigation from The Daily Beast has revealed. At least 19 fake personas were used to author op-eds…
After months of struggle with deceptively altered videos, Facebook finally announced last week that it would ban the posting of Deepfakes on the social media platform as part of a new policy on manipulated media. Deepfakes refer to images and videos that…
The technologies that generate deepfake content is at the forefront of manipulating humans. While the research developing these algorithms is fascinating and will lead to powerful tools that enhance the way people create and work, in the wrong hands, these same tools…
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…
Oxbotica, a start-up founded by Oxford University graduates, is using a technology called ‘deepfaking’. First used to create fake internet videos, it employs deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) to generate thousands of photo-realistic images in minutes. Two co-evolving AI systems generate the data. One…
Deepfakes — media that takes a person in an existing image, audio recording, or video and replaces them with someone else’s likeness using AI — are multiplying quickly. That’s troubling not only because these fakes might be used to sway opinions during…
None of these people exist. These images were generated using deepfake technology. Last month during ESPN’s hit documentary series The Last Dance, State Farm debuted a TV commercial that has become one of the most widely discussed ads in recent memory. It appeared to show footage from…
The ‘Nth room’ case shocked the public earlier this year when details of the inhumane crime was revealed through media reports and investigation results. Although the idea of digital sex crimes wasn’t new, the horrifying atrocities of what had been going on…
