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China is trying to prevent deepfakes with new law requiring that videos using...
China is making it illegal for fake news to be created with deepfake video and audio."Deepfakes" are video or audio content that have been manipulated using AI to make it look like someone said or did...
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Facebook bans deepfake videos and manipulated content from site
Facebook said in an announcement on Monday that deepfake videos and manipulated media would be barred from the social-media site.The company said in a statement that it was taking a multipronged...
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Facebook just banned deepfakes, but the policy has loopholes — and a widely...
Facebook will now remove deepfakes, the company announced Monday night. Deepfakes is a term for video or imagery manipulated with artificial intelligence to show something fake.But Facebook's new...
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Lawmakers hammered a Facebook VP over misinformation on its platform and...
House lawmakers pressed a Facebook executive over the spread of misinformation on the platform during a committee hearing Wednesday.Representatives questioned Facebook's decision to fact-check rather...
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A deepfake artist's attempt to make Robert De Niro look younger in 'The...
A deep fake artist's attempt to make Robert De Niro look younger in 'The Irishman' is being hailed as superior to Netflix's CGI.The YouTuber, known as iFake, used freely-available deepfake software to...
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As social media platforms brace for the incoming wave of deepfakes, Google's...
Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok recently announced plans to tackle the spread of "deepfake" videos on their platforms as the new form of misinformation gains momentum.For now, deepfakes still look...
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Spokespeople for Nancy Pelosi and Facebook got into a Twitter spat over an...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's deputy chief of staff got into a heated exchange with a Facebook rep on Twitter over whether a video posted by President Donald Trump violated Facebook's manipulated content...
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Deepfakes, videos manipulated by face-swapping technology, are showing up on...
Deepfakes, a type of face-swapping technology, is showing up on the wildly popular 60-second video app TikTok.The short-form video app TikTok, popular among Generation Z, is owned by the Chinese...
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Twitter looks at flagging misinformation with bright red and orange badges
Twitter is experimenting with the idea of placing brightly-colored labels beneath misinformation tweeted by public figures, the company confirmed.On Thursday, NBC News published screenshots from a...
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This AI generates absurdist memes that are funnier than what most real humans...
The founder of a website used for creating memes, Imgflip, has harnessed AI technology to build a meme generator for 48 of its most popular templates.The technology used for This Meme Does Not Exist is...
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This AI is creating some surprisingly good bops based on music by Katy Perry...
Researchers at OpenAI are using machine learning to generate songs from scratch — complete with lyrics, soundtracks, and vocals.Jukebox harnesses the same technology that's behind deepfakes and this...
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Satirical websites are testing Facebook's policy on not being the 'arbiter of...
Two satirical websites are testing Facebook's stance that it shouldn't be the "arbiter of truth."The websites shared satirical articles with fictional headlines about CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Facebook on...
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Microsoft has launched new deepfake-detecting tech ahead of the 2020 election
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the launch of Microsoft Video Authenticator, a tool designed to spot when videos have been manipulated using deepfake technology.Deepfakes are typically videos that have...
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Nancy Pelosi wonders how top Facebook employees can 'look themselves in the...
Summary List PlacementHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday blasted Facebook executives and employees as "totally disreputable" over the prevalence of posts touting the right-wing conspiracy-theory...
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Popular deepfake apps are making it easier than ever to make AI-powered...
Summary List PlacementDozens of heads bob in unison over a techno beat, their facial expressions synchronizing to match the face of a TikTok star lip synching the lyrics. As she mouths the words,...
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What is a deepfake? Everything you need to know about the AI-powered fake media
Summary List PlacementComputers have been getting increasingly better at simulating reality. Modern cinema, for example, relies heavily on computer-generated sets, scenery, and characters in place of...
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FBI warns of the rise of 'deepfakes' in coming months and explains how to...
Summary List PlacementThe FBI has issued a stark warning saying "malicious actors almost certainly will leverage synthetic content for cyber and foreign influence operations in the next 12-18...
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The Tom Cruise deepfakes were hard to create. But less sophisticated...
Summary List PlacementThe coiffed hair, the squint, the jaw clench, and even the signature cackle — it all looks and sounds virtually indistinguishable from the real Tom Cruise.But the uncanny...
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'Liar's dividend': The more we learn about deepfakes, the more dangerous they...
Summary List PlacementIn April 2018, BuzzFeed released a shockingly realistic video of a Barack Obama deepfake where the former president's digital lookalike appeared to call his successor, Donald...
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The new Anthony Bourdain documentary used a deepfake of Bourdain's voice to...
Summary List PlacementIn the new documentary "Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain," the iconic voice of beloved travel and food celebrity Anthony Bourdain can be heard throughout.Many of the...
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