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In the age of deepfakes, could virtual actors put humans out of business?
In film and video games, we’ve already seen what’s possible with ‘digital humans’. Are we on the brink of the world’s first totally virtual acting star?
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AI can’t protect us from deepfakes, argues new report
Media manipulation has always required a social and technical fix.
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A deepfake pioneer says 'perfectly real' manipulated videos are just 6 months away
Deepfake artist Hao Li said that soon we will get to the point where there is no way to actually detect deepfakes.
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'Perfectly Real' Deepfake Videos Are Coming in 2020 - BeInCrypto
Deepfake pioneer and artist Hai Li recently confirmed that 'perfectly real' deepfake videos could be just 6 to 12 months away.
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California laws seek to crack down on deepfakes in politics and porn
The laws go after malicious video forgeries.
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Prepare for the Deepfake Era of Web Video
“We’re going to get more and more of this content and it’s probably going to get of better quality,” says Sam Gregory of the human-rights nonprofit Witness.
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California cracks down on political and pornographic deepfakes
A new California law makes it illegal to create manipulated videos that discredit a political candidate.
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Twitter wants your feedback on its proposed deepfakes policy
The company proposes warning labels—is that enough?
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Internet Companies Prepare to Fight the ‘Deepfake’ Future
Researchers are creating tools to find A.I.-generated fake videos before they become impossible to detect. Some experts fear it is a losing battle.
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China makes it a criminal offense to publish deepfakes or fake news without disclosure
The Cyberspace Administration of China issued a new policy Friday designed to prevent the spread of fake news and misleading edited imagery and video, known as deepfakes. The new policy criminalizes the publication of such content with proper disclosure that it is indeed fake.
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I created my own deepfake—it took two weeks and cost $552
I learned a lot from creating my own deepfake video.
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The Dystopian technologies of the future
Technology from it's beginning has been good and bad. The bad from it has come from us weaponizing whether it be images, ideas or even people.
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Facebook bans deepfake videos in run-up to the 2020 U.S. election
Facebook announced measures to protect the 2020 U.S. election from foreign influence and misleading information last year. Now, the firm has announced that it is banning manipulated photos and videos, referred to as deepfakes, from its platforms, in a move aimed to curb misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election later this year.
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Twitter bans deepfakes that are 'likely to cause harm'
Twitter shares the deepfake rules it proposed last year.
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You can now deepfake yourself into a celebrity with just a few clicks
The bar for creating deepfakes has undoubtedly been lowered since the technology first emerged in late 2017. Until now, developing such a video required specific knowledge, patience, and high-end computer hardware that few possess. But what if anyone could create a decent-looking deepfake right from their mobile device? A new app for the iPhone known as Impressions is aiming to do just that.
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A deepfake pioneer says 'perfectly real' manipulated videos are just 6 months away
A deepfake pioneer said in an interview with CNBC on Friday that "perfectly real" digitally manipulated videos are just six to 12 months away from being accessible to everyday people. "It's still very easy you can tell from the naked eye most of the deepfakes," Hao Li, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Southern California, said on CNBC's Power Lunch. "But there also are examples that are really, really convincing."
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Deepfakes' threat to 2020 US election isn't what you'd think
And if a devastating deepfake does emerge, it'll hit at the last moment.
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Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared.
In the months and years ahead, deepfakes threaten to grow from an Internet oddity to a widely destructive political and social force.
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Deepfakes aren’t very good—nor are the tools to detect them
We're lucky that deepfake videos aren’t a big problem yet. The best deepfake detector to emerge from a major Facebook-led effort to combat the altered videos would only catch about two-thirds of them. In September, as speculation about the danger of deepfakes grew, Facebook challenged artificial intelligence wizards to develop techniques for detecting deepfake videos. In January, the company also banned deepfakes used to spread misinformation.
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Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
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 a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewish home. His half dozen freelance editorials and blog posts reveal an active interest in anti-Semitism and Jewish affairs, with bylines in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.
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