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May 30 2023
News
Deepfaking it: America's 2024 election collides with AI boom
"I actually like Ron DeSantis a lot," Hillary Clinton reveals in a surprise online endorsement video. "He's just the kind of guy this country needs, and I really mean that."
Joe Biden finally lets the mask slip, unleashing a cruel rant at a transgender person. "You will never be a real woman," the president snarls.
Reuters
Aug 04 2020
News
System for thwarting deepfakes unveiled
A group whose members include Adobe, Twitter and the New York Times Monday offered a plan for restoring trust in photos and video in the face of a rising tide of digital fakery.
Why it matters: Deepfakes — images manipulated or generated by AI in a deceptive way — undermine trust both by tricking people into thinking phony images or videos are real and by making them doubt the veracity
Axios
Jan 11 2023
News
I Think My Face Was Deepfaked Into a Chinese Camping Stove Ad
It was 6:28 am when I woke up to a text from a friend in Shanghai, China. “Hey, Amanda—is this you?” he wrote via WeChat. I hadn’t even had my morning coffee yet. I pulled my phone closer to get a better look. While scrolling through Taobao, a Chinese marketplace owned by Alibaba, my friend came across an ad for a camping stove. It was like looking in a mirror—I saw my Puerto Rican mother’s
Wired
Jul 28 2022
Fact Check
False claims of 'deepfake' President Biden go viral
People are falsely claiming a video of US President Joe Biden posted by the Democratic Party is a deepfake.
A deepfake is a video created using artificial intelligence to show someone saying or doing something they didn't do.
We've looked into the video.
What are people claiming?
Social media users have claimed the video has been altered to superimpose the president
BBC Fact Check
Nov 16 2020
News
What Happened to the Deepfake Threat to the Election?
AT A HEARING of the House Intelligence Committee in June 2019, experts warned of the democracy-distorting potential of videos generated by artificial intelligence, known as deepfakes. Chair Adam Schiff (D-California) played a clip spoofing Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and called on social media companies to take the threat seriously, because “after viral deepfakes have polluted
Wired
Jan 07 2020
News
Facebook bans "deepfake" videos, with exceptions
Facebook announced late Monday that it is banning certain types of so-called "deepfakes" — videos altered to appear as though people are doing or saying something they didn't actually do or say.
CBS News (Online)
Mar 03 2021
News
How to Spot a Deepfake Without Even Watching the Video
Deepfakes are videos that glue one person’s face onto another’s body, making the former look like they’re saying or doing something that they never actually did—even if it’s something as harmless as Tom Cruise talking to the camera and hitting a golf ball. They’re hard to spot just from watching the video, but here’s the good news: you don’t actually have to watch the video to know you’ve
Lifehacker
Aug 01 2022
Analysis
Is Joe Biden Dead, Replaced by 10 Different Deepfake Body Doubles? An Investigation
A viral video speculating that Joe Biden is either dead, multiple people, a deepfake, or some combination of all of those has been viewed more than a million times on Twitter.
The original post is from the Twitter account for the band Five Times August, led by Dallas-area musician Bradley James Skistimas. The account has 91,000 followers. He posted two pictures of Biden from two
Vice
Oct 15 2018
Perspectives Blog
Deepfake: When You Can't Believe Your Eyes
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Town Line newspaper.
Fake news. Fake videos. Fake photos. The way things are heading, the 21st century is likely to be known as the Fake Century, and it’s only going to get worse from here.
About a year ago, I came across a short BBC News report. It talked about an initiative by researchers at the University of Washington to
Eric W. Austin
Jun 13 2020
News
Facebook contest reveals deepfake detection is still an ‘unsolved problem’
Facebook has announced the results of its first Deepfake Detection Challenge, an open competition to find algorithms that can spot AI-manipulated videos. The results, while promising, show there’s still lots of work to be done before automated systems can reliably spot deepfake content, with researchers describing the issue as an “unsolved problem.”
Facebook says the winning algorithm
The Verge