Never believe everything you read on the internet. Truer words may have never been written, especially with the proliferation of deepfake videos. Some were made for educational purposes, like the one featuring former President Barack Obama. But others could be used for more malicious purposes. The most recent deepfake sensation involved actor Tom Cruise...or did it? Read more about deepfake technology and why it's getting much harder to spot what's real on the internet.
A few months ago, millions of TV viewers across South Korea were watching the MBN channel to catch the latest news. At the top of the hour, regular news anchor Kim Joo-Ha started to go through the day's headlines. It was a relatively normal list of stories for late 2020 - full of Covid-19 and …
Computers have been getting increasingly better at simulating reality. Media generated by artificial intelligence (AI) has been making serious headlines — especially videos designed to mimic someone, making it appear as though they're saying or doing something they aren't. A Twitch streamer was …
Imagine a twisty-turny movie about a master criminal locked in a war of wits with the world’s greatest detective. The criminal seeks to pull off a …
They tested their method on 'state-of-the-art deepfake detectors.' Universities, organizations and tech giants, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have been working on tools that can detect deepfakes in an effort to prevent their use for the spread of malicious media and misinformation. Deepfake …
Deepfakes, or AI-generated videos that take a person in an existing video and replace them with someone else’s likeness, are multiplying at an accelerating rate. According to startup Deeptrace, the number of deepfakes on the web increased 330% from October 2019 to June 2020, reaching over 50,000 at …
Genealogy site MyHeritage has introduced a tool which uses deepfake technology to animate the faces in photographs of dead relatives. Called DeepNostalgia, the firm acknowledged that some people might find the feature "creepy" while others would consider it "magical". It said it did not include …
Helen Mort couldn't believe what she was hearing. There were naked photos of her plastered on a porn site, an acquaintance told her. But never in her …
