Tag: synthetic media

• Synthetic media

  August 31, 2020

  Your digital shadow will evolve into a talking and texting avatar. It will conduct business on your behalf and look out for your best interests more ›

• Deepfake porn is now mainstream. And major sites are cashing in

  August 31, 2020

  Hundreds of explicit deepfake videos featuring female celebrities, actresses and musicians are being uploaded to the world’s biggest pornography websites every month, new analysis shows. Up to 1,000 deepfake videos… more ›

• Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird

  August 31, 2020

  The rapidly increasing accessibility of the technology raises new concerns about its abuse. Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. Within… more ›

• What Is Elite TikTok?

  August 29, 2020

  “Elite TikTok is this weird group of chaos that these kids have made into a thing,” said Connie Yao, 22 and a talent manager for influencers in Sydney. As multinational… more ›

• Sensity: deepfakes and visual threats detection | Deeptrace

  August 29, 2020

  Visual Threat Intelligence The most comprehensive database of detected deepfakes with actionable insights https://sensity.ai/ more ›

• Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans

  August 18, 2020

  All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically-generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/hour-one-raises-5m-seed-to-generate-ai-driven-synthetic-characters-from-real-humans/ more ›

• Photoshop Will Help ID Images That Have Been … Photoshopped

  August 15, 2020

  Adobe’s photo-editing flagship Photoshop is so successful that the brand is a synonym for digital fakery. Adobe is adding technology to tag images with metadata, part of an effort to… more ›

• Deepfakes are the most worrying AI crime, researchers warn

  August 6, 2020

  Deepfakes are the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism, according to a new report from University College London. The research team first identified 20 different ways AI… more ›

• Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier

  July 16, 2020

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Online profiles describe him as… more ›

• Audio Deepfakes Result in Some Pretty Convincing Mashup Performances

  May 2, 2020

  Have you ever wanted to hear Jay Z rap the “To Be, Or Not To Be” soliloquy from Hamlet? You are in luck: What about Bob Dylan singing Britney Spears’… more ›