deepfakes
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Scams, Deepfake Porn and Romance Bots: Advanced AI Is Exciting but Incredibly Dangerous
The generative AI industry will be worth about A$22 trillion by 2030, according to the CSIRO. These systems – of which ChatGPT is currently the best known – can write essays and code, generate music and artwork, and have entire conversations. But what happens when they’re turned to illegal uses? Last week, the streaming community…
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3.2 Billion Images and 720,000 Hours of Video are Shared Online Daily, Can You Sort Real From Fake?
Twitter over the weekend “tagged” as manipulated a video showing U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden supposedly forgetting which state he’s in while addressing a crowd. Biden’s “hello Minnesota” greeting contrasted with prominent signage reading “Tampa, Florida” and “Text FL to 30330”. The Associated Press’s fact check confirmed the signs were added digitally and the…
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A Telegram Bot Has Made Thousands of Deepfake Nudes of Women Without Their Consent
More than 100,000 Deepfake nude images based on photographs of real women have been created by a AI bot running on encrypted messaging service, Telegram. On Wednesday, security firm Sensity released a report Deepfake bots on Telegram. In it, researchers documented a network of message channels in English and Russian where 104,852 images of women had been…
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Microsoft’s Made a Tool to Spot Deepfakes
Anyone who was around in the 80s will be pretty surprised that Bill Gates and Microsoft are turning out to be the good guys of 2020, but here we are. MS has created a new tool called Video Authenticator to identify deepfakes (those spooky videos that all-too-realistically change the face of someone in a video…