Fake news, hoax images: How to spot a digitally altered photo from the real deal
7 years, 1 month ago

Fake news, hoax images: How to spot a digitally altered photo from the real deal

ABC  

A shark swimming down a flooded road. "Every time there's a natural disaster, people circulate the same silly images of sharks swimming down the street," Dr Farid said. "There are many websites where you can upload an image and it will strip out the metadata and show it to you," Dr Farid said. "When you edit an image, it adds its own little bit of metadata," Dr Farid said. "The thing with JPEG is it introduces artefacts into the image and in particular, if you notice you have a particularly low-quality jpg image, you get what are called blocky artefacts," Dr Farid said.

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Delete a background? Easy. Smooth out a face? Seamless. Digital photo manipulation is now mainstream
1 year ago

Delete a background? Easy. Smooth out a face? Seamless. Digital photo manipulation is now mainstream

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It's been a common refrain …

AI-generated content is raising the value of trust
1 year, 2 months ago

AI-generated content is raising the value of trust

The Economist  

Listen to this story. This can be fun: a TikTok account on which—among other things—an artificial Tom Cruise wearing a purple robe sings “Tiny Dancer” to Paris Hilton holding a toy dog has attracted 5.1m followers. Phone scammers now need just ten seconds of audio to mimic the voices of loved ones in distress; rogue AI- generated Tom Hankses and …

Not All Online Videos Of The Israel-Hamas War Are Real. Here's How To Spot A Fake.
1 year, 5 months ago

Not All Online Videos Of The Israel-Hamas War Are Real. Here's How To Spot A Fake.

Huff Post  

ARIS MESSINIS via Getty Images EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / An Israeli soldier directs a Merkava battle tank as it deploys with other tanks along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Oct. 13, as battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement continue for the seventh consecutive day. “A cheap fake is just a doctored video …

Coronavirus | Police get a guide to detect fake news
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus | Police get a guide to detect fake news

The Hindu  

May 09, 2020 05:26 pm | Updated November 28, 2021 12:10 pm IST The Bureau of Police Research and Development has published a step-by-step guide for law enforcement agencies to identify “fake news” and videos intended to spread panic through hatred and communal violence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The think-tank under the Union Home Ministry, in the …

Twitter to label edited photos and videos, will remove deceptive videos that can harm people
5 years, 1 month ago

Twitter to label edited photos and videos, will remove deceptive videos that can harm people

India Today  

Twitter has announced some new rules so that it can curb or minimise misinformation on the website. The social media platform said that it will label synthetic media -- fancy term for doctored and altered videos and photos -- and is will even remove manipulative media -- read fake videos -- which may cause public harm. Following are the criteria …

Opinion | The challenge of detecting fake content
6 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | The challenge of detecting fake content

Live Mint  

The information revolution has dramatically disrupted the news industry. Technologies like generative adversarial networks use two neural networks—one to generate a fake image and the other to evaluate whether the first neural network succeeded in creating a suitable image. This technology is called deep fakes and while at present it is being primarily used by the porn industry to generate …

Five ways you're being fooled by fake stories online
6 years, 6 months ago

Five ways you're being fooled by fake stories online

ABC  

Sign into any social media platform and you're immediately bombarded by endless feeds full of links to news stories, often accompanied by breathless comments or rants, each jostling for a precious sliver of your attention. A Visual Social Media Lab study found about 30 per cent of problematic photos online are actually real photos presented out of context. Loading YouTube …

'Deep fakes': How to know what's true in the fake-Obama video era
7 years ago

'Deep fakes': How to know what's true in the fake-Obama video era

ABC  

It always starts with porn. Beyond the morality of porn "deep fakes", an altered video of Donald Trump, for example, could have serious geopolitical consequences. Doctored videos could show politicians "taking bribes, uttering racial epithets, or engaging in adultery", suggested American law professors Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron on the Lawfare blog. He suggested America's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency …

Fake videos are on the rise. As they become more realistic, seeing shouldn’t always be believing
7 years, 1 month ago

Fake videos are on the rise. As they become more realistic, seeing shouldn’t always be believing

LA Times  

All it takes is a single selfie. “You won’t be able to tell,” said Hao Li, a leading researcher on computer-generated video at USC who founded Pinscreen in 2015. “But that doesn’t mean a good thing can’t be used for bad.” Proponents of artificial video say fake imagery is an old problem that’s regularly debunked. But the positive potential far …

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