Cheap, Easy Deepfakes Are Getting Closer to the Real Thing
4 years, 7 months ago

Cheap, Easy Deepfakes Are Getting Closer to the Real Thing

Wired  

There are many photos of Tom Hanks, but none like the images of the leading everyman shown at the Black Hat computer security conference Wednesday: They were made by machine-learning algorithms, not a camera. Philip Tully, a data scientist at security company FireEye, generated the hoax Hankses to test how easily open-source software from artificial intelligence labs could be adapted to misinformation campaigns. Seen at full resolution, FireEye’s fake Hanks images have flaws like unnatural neck folds and skin textures. Courtesy of FireEye By demonstrating just how cheaply and easily a person can generate passable fake photos, the FireEye project could add weight to concerns that online disinformation could be magnified by AI technology that generates passable images or speech.

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From Rashmika to Kohli: Celebrities Who Fall Prey to AI Deception
2 months, 1 week ago

From Rashmika to Kohli: Celebrities Who Fall Prey to AI Deception

Deccan Chronicle  

Pi-labs, a leader in cyberforensics leveraging AI to enhance law enforcement efficiency, has unveiled its list of the Top 10 victims of AI deepfakes in 2024. A viral deepfake video of Rashmika led to widespread commentary, with netizens identifying it as a manipulated video featuring British influencer Zara Patel. Shaktikanta Das RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das’s image was exploited in deepfake …

Deepfake Dilemma: Tech Alone Cannot Stop AI Misuse, Policy & Awareness Must Also Play A Role
4 months ago

Deepfake Dilemma: Tech Alone Cannot Stop AI Misuse, Policy & Awareness Must Also Play A Role

ABP News  

By Jaspreet Bindra The rise of deepfakes has sparked widespread concern about the misuse of technology. Deepfakes are a type of artificial intelligence generated content that uses deep learning algorithms to create fake audio, video or images that are incredibly realistic and convincing. Around 95 per cent of the deepfakes are used to create a wide range of fake content, …

Threat of AI-Generated Deepfakes Remains Deep Rooted
4 months ago

Threat of AI-Generated Deepfakes Remains Deep Rooted

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Deepfakes are no longer just a tool to target celebrities and politicians—-they are fast emerging as a serious threat for the general public as well. Deepfakes are highly realistic images, videos or audio recordings that are created, edited, or generated using artificial intelligence techniques and tools that alter or replace an individual's identity within the content. While deepfakes often …

Detecting deepfakes vital for a trustworthy digital future
4 months, 1 week ago

Detecting deepfakes vital for a trustworthy digital future

Hindustan Times  

Living in the contemporary world means information can be created, spread and shared with little effort. Among the most concerning technologies in this realm are deepfakes: Images, voices, and videos depicting fake persons and situations which seem real and can be closely associated with the real actions of a person. In the election period, deepfakes would create misunderstandings and propaganda …

Deepfakes: A Cyber Threat Lurking in the Digital Age
5 months ago

Deepfakes: A Cyber Threat Lurking in the Digital Age

The Quint  

Deepfakes pose a significant threat to cybersecurity, privacy, and misinformation in the digital age. This article explores the complexities of deepfakes as AI-powered cyber threats and their implications for individuals, organizations, and society. According to a survey by McAfee, 75% of Indians have seen some or other form of deepfake content over the past 12 years, with a significant increase …

Real-Time Video Deepfake Scams Are Here. This Tool Attempts to Zap Them
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Real-Time Video Deepfake Scams Are Here. This Tool Attempts to Zap Them

Wired  

This announcement is not the first time a tech company has shared plans to help spot real-time deepfakes. Mittal’s research at NYU, with professors Chinmay Hegde and Nasir Memon, proposes a potential challenge-based approach to blocking AI-bots from video calls, where participants would have to pass a kind of video CAPTCHA test before joining. As Reality Defender works to improve …

Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
9 months ago

Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All

Wired  

Some Fortune 500 companies have begun testing software that can spot a deepfake of a real person in a live video call, following a spate of scams involving fraudulent job seekers who take a signing bonus and run. The detection technology comes courtesy of GetReal Labs, a new company founded by Hany Farid, a UC-Berkeley professor and renowned authority on …

Understanding deepfake: The blurred line between reality and artificial intelligence
9 months, 1 week ago

Understanding deepfake: The blurred line between reality and artificial intelligence

New Indian Express  

Have you ever considered how who you are is affecting and thereby creating a bigger reality we live in? Look at each one of us.” While this I said in zest, in a short video on social media, the reel went viral. It needs no level of skill, it is child’s play thanks to Generative Artificial Intelligence, or Gen AI. …

Breaking News: Modi Govt. To Put End To Deepfake With This Bill, Congress Opposes Decision | ABP News
9 months, 1 week ago

Breaking News: Modi Govt. To Put End To Deepfake With This Bill, Congress Opposes Decision | ABP News

ABP News  

Deepfake refers to a sophisticated form of digital manipulation where artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are used to create or alter video, audio, or images to depict something that never actually occurred. This technology has raised concerns due to its potential for misuse, such as creating fake news, misinformation, or defamatory content. While deepfake technology has legitimate applications in …

One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images
10 months, 3 weeks ago

One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images

Associated Press  

LONDON — AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. With AI deepfakes cropping up almost every day, depicting everyone from Taylor Swift to Donald Trump to Katy Perry attending the Meta Gala, it’s getting harder to tell what’s real from what’s not. Video and image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and OpenAI’s Sora make it …

The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived
11 months, 1 week ago

The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived

Wired  

The digital con artists started using deepfakes as part of their romance scams around May 2022, says Maimon. The scammer holds the phone they are calling their victim with—they’re mostly seen using Zoom, Maimon says, but it can work on any platform—and uses its rear camera to record the screen of a second phone. They often place the two phones …

Real or not? Top 5 ways to spot ‘deepfake’ videos and images
1 year ago

Real or not? Top 5 ways to spot ‘deepfake’ videos and images

Hindustan Times  

More and more AI deepfakes are cropping up. From Taylor Swift to Pope Francis, no one is immune to the AI fakery which is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. Video and image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and OpenAI’s Sora are making it easy for people without any technical skills to create deepfakes which might seem …

One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images
1 year ago

One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images

Associated Press  

LONDON — AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. Video and image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and OpenAI’s Sora make it easy for people without any technical skills to create deepfakes — just type a request and the system spits it out. Some widely shared advice — such as looking for unnatural blinking patterns …

Explained: Why deepfakes are everywhere, and the fight to stop them
1 year, 1 month ago

Explained: Why deepfakes are everywhere, and the fight to stop them

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 12, 2024 12:24 IST - 5 MINS READ The world is awash in deepfakes—video, audio, or pictures in which people appear to do or say things they did not or be somewhere they were not. New Hampshire residents received a robocall before the State’s presidential primary that sounded like Biden urging them to stay home and “save …

Trust in the digital world during the time of deepfakes
1 year, 2 months ago

Trust in the digital world during the time of deepfakes

Hindustan Times  

What would your elderly father’s response be if he received an emergency video message from you requesting a large sum of money? The Union government has already sent an advisory to social media intermediaries asking them to strengthen their systems for detecting and taking down deepfakes, and reports suggest that the ministry of electronics and IT is considering amendments to …

Deepfakes: Clear and present danger
1 year, 3 months ago

Deepfakes: Clear and present danger

India Today  

Before you hit the forward button on your smartphone app next time, pause for a minute. “Deepfakes are definitely one of the big here-and-now problems of AI,” says London-based technology expert, author and start-up mentor Jaspreet Bindra. And as Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union minister of state for electronics and information technology, says in the accompanying interview, “The phenomenon of deepfakes, …

Deepfakes have a dark side of AI and lawyers set to fight for the identity of people
1 year, 4 months ago

Deepfakes have a dark side of AI and lawyers set to fight for the identity of people

India TV News  

Deepfakes, which first emerged in 2019 with fake videos where Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were features. If you have seen Barack Obama former US President calling Donald Trump a “complete dipshit”, or if you have seen Mark Zuckerberg having “total control of billions of people’s stolen data” – then you do know how …

Deepfake makers: Why is it so hard to catch them?
1 year, 4 months ago

Deepfake makers: Why is it so hard to catch them?

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : With AI tools becoming more accessible, deepfakes are a rising threat in audio, video and photo formats. That said, true deepfakes that are hard to detect, such as the video that targeted actor Rashmika Mandanna recently, require targeted efforts to be made, since accurately morphing facial expressions, movements and other video artifacts require very sophisticated hardware and …

A reality check about deepfakes
1 year, 4 months ago

A reality check about deepfakes

Hindustan Times  

Last week, a video on social media rekindled fears about deepfakes, a type of AI-generated media that is hard to detect as synthetic. Last year, western countries suspected Russia could use deepfakes to justify its invasion of Ukraine. While not exactly called deepfake, the use of synthetic media by Hollywood studios to be able to revive dead actors is one …

Rashmika Mandanna deepfake controversy: What are these AI-generated pictures, videos?
1 year, 4 months ago

Rashmika Mandanna deepfake controversy: What are these AI-generated pictures, videos?

Firstpost  

A doctored clip featuring actor Rashmika Mandanna has sent alarm bells ringing about deepfakes. Something like this is honestly, extremely scary not only for me, but also for each one of us who today is vulnerable to so much harm because of how technology is being misused.… — Rashmika Mandanna November 6, 2023 Acknowledging the video, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar …

Keir Starmer deepfake shows alarming AI fears are already here
1 year, 5 months ago

Keir Starmer deepfake shows alarming AI fears are already here

The Independent  

Just a week after Slovakia scrambled to deal with an AI-generated recording designed to influence national elections, the UK Labour Party has become the target of deepfake audio. Unlike Simecka, Starmer isn’t facing an imminent election, however in both cases the AI-generated audio appeared convincing enough to fool people into thinking they were real. A study published this month by …

4 tips for spotting deepfakes and other AI-generated images : Life Kit : NPR
1 year, 9 months ago

4 tips for spotting deepfakes and other AI-generated images : Life Kit : NPR

NPR  

AI-generated images are everywhere. How to spot AI manipulation Thanks to image generators like OpenAI's DALL-E2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, AI-generated images are more realistic and more available than ever. toggle caption Eliot Higgins; Annotation by NPR Listen To Life Kit This story is adapted from an episode of Life Kit, NPR's podcast with tools to help you get it …

AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast. Policymakers can't keep up
1 year, 11 months ago

AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast. Policymakers can't keep up

NPR  

AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast. Policymakers can't keep up Enlarge this image toggle caption Republican National Committee Republican National Committee This week, the Republican National Committee used artificial intelligence to create a 30-second ad imagining what President Joe Biden's second term might look like. It's going to be a tough road ahead," said Irene Solaiman, a safety and policy expert …

It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start
2 years ago

It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start

NPR  

It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. Sponsor Message "It was mostly to see if I could, and then realizing that it's so much easier than I thought," Mollick said in an interview with NPR. But he's among a growing chorus of people worried that this proliferation of what's known as "generative AI" will supercharge …

ITV's deepfake comedy comes under fire as TV critics highlight the ethical dilemmas of using AI
2 years, 1 month ago

ITV's deepfake comedy comes under fire as TV critics highlight the ethical dilemmas of using AI

Daily Mail  

The release of a new television series that uses groundbreaking 'deepfake' technology to mock celebrities and sports stars has sparked debate over the ethical implications of using AI in everyday life. Despite concerns around the ethics of the premise, the show's creators insist it's just 'silly' In the show, deepfake AI technology is used to replicate famous people including Idris …

Deepfakes: Cyber expert warns AI images pose national security risk
2 years, 2 months ago

Deepfakes: Cyber expert warns AI images pose national security risk

Daily Mail  

Deepfake AI has the potential to undermine national security, a cybersecurity expert has warned. Dr Tim Stevens, director of the Cyber Security Research Group at King's College London, said deepfake AI - which can create hyper-realistic images and videos of people - had potential to undermine democratic institutions and national security. Dr Stevens said the widespread availability of these tools …

The danger of deepfakes
2 years, 2 months ago

The danger of deepfakes

The Hindu  

Disinformation and hoaxes have evolved from mere annoyance to warfare that can create social discord, increase polarisation, and in some cases, even influence the election outcome. Artificial Intelligence -Generated Synthetic media or deepfakes have clear benefits in certain areas, such as accessibility, education, film production, criminal forensics, and artistic expression. Deepfakes can also cause short-term and long-term social harm and …

How a deepfake Tom Cruise on TikTok turned into a very real AI company
3 years, 7 months ago

How a deepfake Tom Cruise on TikTok turned into a very real AI company

CNN  

CNN Business — Earlier this year, videos of Tom Cruise started popping up on TikTok of the actor doing some surprisingly un-Tom-Cruise-like stuff: goofing around in an upscale men’s clothing store; showing off a coin trick; growling playfully during a short rendition of Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash Into Me.” In one video, he bites into a lollipop and is amazed …

Tom Cruise deepfake maker reveals how he did it, raising fears that colleagues in video calls may be criminals
4 years ago

Tom Cruise deepfake maker reveals how he did it, raising fears that colleagues in video calls may be criminals

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A viral video series appearing to show actor Tom Cruise playing golf and …

Netizens are Spooked By Eerily Uncanny Deepfake Videos of Tom Cruise on TikTok
4 years ago

Netizens are Spooked By Eerily Uncanny Deepfake Videos of Tom Cruise on TikTok

News 18  

In an ironic turn of events, Hollywood star Tom Cruise is facing a very Mission Impossible style of identity theft but not with the typical face mask. In his first video that was shared on February 22, 2021, the fake Tom Cruise asks his viewers who are at home if they are “cool” with him playing “some sports.” This follows …

Shockingly realistic Tom Cruise deepfakes go viral on TikTok
4 years, 1 month ago

Shockingly realistic Tom Cruise deepfakes go viral on TikTok

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Deepfake videos of Tom Cruise golfing, performing magic tricks and telling …

Deepfakes are jumping from porn to politics. It’s time to fight back
4 years, 3 months ago

Deepfakes are jumping from porn to politics. It’s time to fight back

Wired  

An increasingly large proportion of video content online will be synthetic in 2021 – meaning wholly or partially generated by AI. Some of it will be benign, and even hilarious, such as the YouTubers who are using the power of AI to deepfake Nicolas Cage into every Hollywood movie ever made – but there will be plenty that have been …

Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool
4 years, 8 months ago

Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool

Wired  

This month, advertising giant WPP will send unusual corporate training videos to tens of thousands of employees worldwide. WPP doesn’t bill them as such, but its synthetic training videos might be called deepfakes, a loose term applied to images or videos generated using AI that look real. WPP chief technology officer Stephan Pretorius says the prosody of the presenters’ delivery …

Deepfakes Aren’t Very Good. Nor Are the Tools to Detect Them
55 years, 2 months ago

Deepfakes Aren’t Very Good. Nor Are the Tools to Detect Them

Wired  

We’re lucky that deepfake videos aren’t a big problem yet. “It’s all fine and good for helping human moderators, but it's obviously not even close to the level of accuracy that you need,” says Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and an authority on digital forensics, who is familiar with the Facebook-led project. “You need to make mistakes on …

Deepfake Hits Indian Polity, Brings Privacy Concerns as Pornography Scare Looms Large
5 years, 1 month ago

Deepfake Hits Indian Polity, Brings Privacy Concerns as Pornography Scare Looms Large

News 18  

Election campaigns in India in recent times have seen increasing usage of technologies. Not only this, deepfake technology specialises in being used for specific parts of the human body, which becomes instrumental in simulating aspects such as lip movements, eye twitches and even vocal cord movements. While this is a seemingly casual application that demonstrates how AI deepfake technology may …

Fake videos could upend an election and Silicon Valley pushes a cure
5 years, 4 months ago

Fake videos could upend an election and Silicon Valley pushes a cure

LA Times  

Election officials and social media firms already flummoxed by hackers, trolls and bots are bracing for a potentially more potent weapon of disinformation as the 2020 election approaches — doctored videos, known as “deep fakes,” that can be nearly impossible to detect as inauthentic. “We have to get serious about this,” said Hany Farid, a computer science professor at UC …

Prepare for the Deepfake Era of Web Video
5 years, 5 months ago

Prepare for the Deepfake Era of Web Video

Wired  

It has always been good advice to take what you see on the internet with a pinch of salt, but online video has lately become even less trustworthy. Deepfakes, clips altered or fabricated with an artificial intelligence technique called machine learning, make alternative realities easier to create and disseminate. In the video above, Sam Gregory, a program director at nonprofit …

Examining a video’s changes over time helps flag deepfakes
5 years, 6 months ago

Examining a video’s changes over time helps flag deepfakes

Salon  

It used to be that only Hollywood production companies with deep pockets and teams of skilled artists and technicians could make deepfake videos, realistic fabrications appearing to show people doing and saying things they never actually did or said. Whether used for personal revenge, to harass celebrities or to influence public opinion, deepfakes render untrue the age-old axiom that “seeing …

Samsung deepfake AI needs just one picture of you to make a fake video
5 years, 10 months ago

Samsung deepfake AI needs just one picture of you to make a fake video

Firstpost  

Samsung’s AI system does not use 3D-modelling and can generate fake clips by feeding as little as one photo. Samsung engineers in Moscow have developed a new AI technique that can transform an image of you into an animoji-like video with the face making speech expressions, except it wouldn’t exactly be your video, it would be your picture turned into …

Researchers can now use AI and a photo to make fake videos of anyone
5 years, 10 months ago

Researchers can now use AI and a photo to make fake videos of anyone

CNN  

San Francisco CNN — Researchers have come up with a method for creating realistic-looking — but fake — videos of anyone by using just a single image of them with a trained artificial intelligence system. In this still from a YouTube video, researchers illustrate how they trained an AI system to create videos of people from just one or a …

Lawmakers warn of ‘deepfake’ videos ahead of 2020 election
6 years, 2 months ago

Lawmakers warn of ‘deepfake’ videos ahead of 2020 election

CNN  

New York CNN Business — An increasing number of lawmakers are warning that a form of video manipulation, known as deepfakes, could be the next stage of information warfare ahead of the 2020 US Presidential election. Three members of the House of Representatives, including Rep. Adam Schiff, who now chairs the House Intelligence Committee, wrote to Director of National Intelligence …

These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now
6 years, 5 months ago

These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now

Wired  

For weeks, computer scientist Siwei Lyu had watched his team’s deepfake videos with a gnawing sense of unease. “They don’t look right,” he recalls thinking, “but it’s very hard to pinpoint where that feeling comes from.” Finally, one day, a childhood memory bubbled up into his brain. “I always lost those games,” he says, “because when I watch their faces …

I never said that! High-tech deception of ‘deepfake’ videos
6 years, 8 months ago

I never said that! High-tech deception of ‘deepfake’ videos

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Hey, did my congressman really say that? New technology on the internet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they’ve never said. “The technology, of course, knows no borders, so I expect the impact to ripple around the globe.” When an average person can create a realistic fake video of the president saying anything …

Inside the problematic world of 'deepfakes', AI-made videos which morph celebrities' faces on porn stars
6 years, 11 months ago

Inside the problematic world of 'deepfakes', AI-made videos which morph celebrities' faces on porn stars

Firstpost  

Although there needs to be a clampdown on deepfakes, their emergence may urge us to build tools that will make it easier to spot modified videos | #FirstCulture By Taruni Kumar “Computers driving our cars, beating humans at Go. Fun fact: Deep Mindy is a play on Google’s Deep Mind AI company, which describes itself on its website as “the …

Artificial intelligence poses risks of misuse by hackers, say researchers
7 years, 1 month ago

Artificial intelligence poses risks of misuse by hackers, say researchers

Live Mint  

Frankfurt: Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are raising risks that malicious users will soon exploit the technology to mount automated hacking attacks, cause driverless car crashes or turn commercial drones into targeted weapons, a new report warns. The researchers said the malicious use of AI poses imminent threats to digital, physical and political security by allowing for large-scale, finely targeted, …

Artificial Intelligence Is Now Fighting Fake Porn
55 years, 2 months ago

Artificial Intelligence Is Now Fighting Fake Porn

Wired  

Project Maru is not nearly as forgiving as the human brain. If Gfycat suspects that a video has been altered to feature someone else’s face, the company can “mask” the victim's mug and then search to see if the body and background footage exist somewhere else. For a video that places someone else’s face on Trump’s body, for example, the …

In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines
7 years, 1 month ago

In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines

NPR  

In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines Most people familiar with "face-swapping" know it as an innocuous social media feature. But as it grows more sophisticated, that technology has taken a sinister turn: It's now become easier to superimpose the faces of celebrities onto those of actors in pornographic films, resulting in highly-realistic fake videos. …

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