AI-Generated Images and Deepfakes Had Little Effect on 2024 Elections

Recent research has revealed that generative AI and deepfakes barely impacted the 2024 U.S. election as the images are just not good enough yet. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-12-31 15:38

California Signs Law to Make Political Deepfakes Illegal Ahead of 2024 Election

California passed a new law that makes it illegal to create deepfakes related to the 2024 election -- the toughest law on political AI-generated content in the U.S. yet. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-19 14:32

Deepfakes Can Be Detected by Borrowing a Method From Astronomy

AI images and deepfakes can be detected by borrowing a technique from astronomy.

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2024-7-19 12:44

YouTube Now Allows You to Remove AI Deepfakes of Yourself

Last month, YouTube quietly updated its privacy policy to allow people to request the removal of AI-generated deepfake versions of themselves. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-7-2 13:31

ChatGPT Used to Write Part of Arizona State Law on Deepfakes

An Arizona state representative turned to ChatGPT to help him write part of a law regulating deepfakes in elections.

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2024-5-23 16:06

India Warns Political Parties Against Using Deepfakes in 2024 Election

India's Election Commission has urged all political parties to avoid using AI-generated deepfakes in the 2024 election.

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2024-5-7 19:41

EU to Criminalize Non-Consensual Explicit Deepfakes

The European Parliament and European Council reached an agreement Tuesday to criminalize sexually explicit deepfakes, an essential legal milestone as artificially generated images flourish. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-8 21:11

Financier Scammed of $25.6 Million After Meeting With Deepfakes

A Hong Kong-based finance worker was scammed into paying $200 million Hong Kong dollars ($25.6 million) to criminals after a virtual meeting with deepfakes. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-2-6 20:55

FBI Warns of AI-Generated Deepfakes Images in Sextortion Schemes

The FBI issued a warning about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) generated deepfakes to harass or blackmail people with fake sexually explicit photos or videos of them. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-6-8 21:58

Hundreds of Sexual Emma Watson Deepfakes Ads Ran on Facebook and Instagram

Hundreds of sexually suggestive deepfake video ads of Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson ran on Facebook and Instagram this week. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-3-10 20:08

US Government Plans to Use ‘Next-Generation’ Deepfakes for Propaganda

The U.S. government is planning to use deepfake videos in online propaganda and deception campaigns.

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2023-3-9 21:35

MegaPortraits: High-Res Deepfakes Created From a Single Photo

Researchers from Samsung Labs have developed a way to create high-resolution avatars, or deepfakes, from a single still frame photo or even a painting. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-23 22:09

Adobe’s CEO Says Identifying the Deepfakes it Helped Make is Your Job

Deepfakes are a problem, and we need to talk about the rising issue of fake content on the internet and how some companies are shifting to put some of the blame for what they created on our shoulders. petapixel.com »

2022-7-7 17:41

FBI Warns Deepfakes Might Be Used in Remote Job Interviews

The FBI issued a warning that a rising number of scammers are using deepfake technology to impersonate job candidates during interviews for remote positions. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-7-6 22:09

New ‘Markpainting’ Tech Fights Watermark Removal and Deepfakes

A team of researchers has put together a new initiative with an available open-source code to help better detect deepfakes that have been edited to remove watermarks with the goal of avoiding the spread of misinformation. petapixel.com »

2021-6-17 23:24

The Business of Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Misleading Manipulated Media

Some speculate that overall fake news could cost the economy $39 billion a year. Quite a market to grab for a savvy tech startup, even at 1%! But while fake news and in particular deep fakes have been accused of wreaking havoc on minds and economy, there is surprisingly only a minimal amount of companies […] petapixel.com »

2020-8-3 18:09

These Deepfakes of Famous People Are Testing Facebook’s Policies

Facebook has recently taken a position of not removing faked videos, choosing instead to reduce their reach and display them alongside fact-checking information. Now a series of viral deepfake videos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other famous individuals is putting Facebook’s policies to the test. petapixel.com »

2019-6-13 19:11