Tag: synthetic medium

• Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes

  August 11, 2025

  Elon Musk’s xAI launched a Grok chatbot feature that creates nonconsensual nudes of celebrities despite efforts to purge this content from the internet. https://www.theverge.com/internet-censorship/756831/grok-spicy-videos-nonconsensual-deepfakes-online-safety more ›

• Faking It: Deepfake Porn Site’s Link to Tech Companies

  February 9, 2025

  This article is the result of a collaboration with German YouTube channel STRG_F. You can watch their documentary here. Warning: This article discusses non-consensual sexually explicit content from the start.… more ›

• No one’s ready for this

  August 23, 2024

  An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds… more ›

• Eight photos that make us question what we see

  July 13, 2024

  MIT and Halsey Burgund”I think it’s getting harder to know what is true,” says Jago Cooper, the director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, which is part-way… more ›

• Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices

  April 7, 2024

  We recognize that generating speech that resembles people’s voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year. We are engaging with U.S. https://openai.com/blog/navigating-the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-synthetic-voices more ›

• The Deodorant AI Spokesmodel Is a Real Person, Sort Of

  April 2, 2024

  An AI-generated ad for cleaning wipes has driven the internet insane. In December of last year, Ariel, a 24-year-old content creator in New Jersey, received a message from a French… more ›

• 2023 STATE OF DEEPFAKES

  February 24, 2024

  Below is a demographic breakdown of deepfake videos from top 10 dedicated deepfake pornography websites and 85 deepfake channels on Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion. https://www.homesecurityheroes.com/state-of-deepfakes/ more ›

• Found through Google, bought with Visa and Mastercard: Inside the deepfake porn economy

  March 28, 2023

  The people who create the videos charge as little as $5 to download thousands of clips featuring the faces of celebrities, and they accept payment via Visa, Mastercard and cryptocurrency.… more ›