One of the world’s most popular social media platforms, TikTok, is now host to a steady stream of deepfake videos.…
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Deepfakes are video, audio and image content generated by artificial intelligence. This technology can produce false images, videos or sounds of…
In early March, a manipulated video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ciruclated. In it, a digitally generated Zelenskyy told the…
Deepfakes can put you in a movie promo Image: Warner Bros. If you've always wanted to see yourself on the big screen and act alongside big names in the industry, now's your chance. Your likeness can appear with Hugh Jackman without needing to do all the hard work like acting or being emotionally vulnerable and
Lucasfilm thinks ‘if you can’t beat ’em, hire ’em’, and that’s just what it’s done for Shamook, one of the many…
Maybe this deepfake video, by placing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the shoes of an alien overlord bent on enslaving (some of) humanity, is offering up some sort of social commentary. Or maybe it just looks cool having Bezos face off against Tesla/SpaceX head Elon Musk.
The effect is startlingly realistic and shows just how far this sort of “deepfake” technology has come. But it also highlights how great the risks have become of making your photos available online where anyone can use or abuse them – and the limitation of the law in dealing with this issue. One of the key problems…
While photographic fakes have been around since the dawn of photography, the more recent use of deep learning artificial intelligence techniques (the “deep” in deepfakes) is leading to the creation of increasingly credible computer simulations.