Deepfake

YouTube confirms it'll pull AI fakes in 48 hours if a complaint's upheld

As ever, terms and conditions apply

Personal Tech02 Jul 2024 | 13

Footage of Nigel Farage blowing up Rishi Sunak's Minecraft mansion 'not real'

Hats off to The Guardian for double checking, though

Bootnotes19 Jun 2024 | 87

Scarlett Johansson voices anger at OpenAI's unauthorized soundalike

Audio Sam Altman liked the sound of a fictional ScarBot, which makes this all a bit creepy

AI + ML21 May 2024 | 52

TikTok becomes first platform to require watermarking of AI content

The deepfake dystopia we’ve been waiting for has already arrived

AI + ML10 May 2024 | 4

Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too powerful to release

VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking

AI + ML20 Apr 2024 | 44

OpenAI claims its software can clone your voice from 15 seconds of you talking

Super lab loves to big up things it says it couldn't possibly let loose on the world for now

AI + ML01 Apr 2024 | 19

Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters

Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve

AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 40

India demands beta AIs secure government permission before going public

Not compulsory for now, but IT minister says that's coming after Google's Gemini said the quiet part out loud

AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 2

Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation

Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and pals promise they'll try very hard to keep AI nasties off the 'net

AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 12

FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too

Fakers face the wrath of Khan

AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 22

Neural networks are reportedly helping criminals create cheap virtual fake IDs online

AI in brief Plus: Computer scientists win $700k in AI competition to decipher ancient scrolls destroyed in Mount Vesuvius eruption, and more

AI + ML12 Feb 2024 | 5

Sorry, scammers: The FCC says AI robocalls are definitely illegal

Existing telemarketing abuse laws apply to AI voices, too, says Commission

AI + ML08 Feb 2024 | 20

Attempts to demolish guardrails in AI image generators blamed for lewd Taylor Swift deepfakes

Creeps on notorious bulletin board 4Chan reportedly decided to humiliate prominent women

AI + ML05 Feb 2024 | 17

Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million

Recordings of past vidchats suspected as source of fakery – so there's another class of data you need to lock down

AI + ML05 Feb 2024 | 26

Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won't be enough

Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication

CSO01 Feb 2024 | 18

Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes

You could say this was tailored for Swift

AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 29

It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

Fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake ... time to fake it off

AI + ML30 Jan 2024 | 68

Robocaller spoofing Joe Biden is telling people not to vote in New Hampshire

Meanwhile, OpenAI is hiring an 'elections program manager' for $190,000+

AI + ML23 Jan 2024 | 14

Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special

Seven words you can't say – This won't backfire and ruin art forever

AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 38

Uncle Sam will pay for your big ideas to end AI voice-cloning fraud

The advent of generative AI has made the attack far more pervasive

AI + ML05 Jan 2024 | 35

Pakistani politician deepfakes himself to deliver a speech from behind bars

Grammar might be off, but use case remains groundbreaking

AI + ML19 Dec 2023 | 14

India's CERT given exemption from Right To Information requests

Activists worry investigations may stay secret, and then there's those odd incident reporting requirements

Security28 Nov 2023 | 4

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 21

Strike over? US actors may return to work with top-tier 'progressive AI protections'

Producers will need OK from performers, will pay them to create digi-personas

AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 3

India gives social media platforms 36 hours to remove deepfakes

Today it's Bollywood actors, tomorrow it could be lawmakers themselves

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10

Microsoft, Meta detail plans to fight election disinformation in 2024

Strategies differ, though both have gaps that could hurt efficacy

Security08 Nov 2023 | 10

US actors are still on strike – and yup, it's about those looming AI clones

Updated How about you pay us every time our likeness is used by algorithms to make studio execs richer?

AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 38

How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work

Check for 'cr' bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn't been stripped, or...

AI + ML15 Oct 2023 | 38

Meta watchdog sticks a probe into Facebook rules after fake Biden vid allowed to stay

Doctored video featured vile false slur, but it wasn't a deepfake ... so that's OK, then?

AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 7

Deepfakes being used in 'sextortion' scams, FBI warns

AI technology raises the bar in an already troubling crime

Cyber-crime08 Jun 2023 | 22

China cracks down on AI-generated news anchors

Aims to 'clear' the network of unauthorized misinformation. Stuff from official sources can't be wrong!

AI + ML16 May 2023 | 5

How to tell an AI bot wrote that scammy-looking tax email: No spelling mistakes

Don't let the robots take your money! That's the IRS's job

AI + ML04 May 2023 | 16

Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145

Three minutes of video, 100 sentences of speech, and 24 hours gets you a bot to front your livestreams and answer questions

AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 9

Meta has nothing to say about politicians making deepfaked ads

In Brief Plus: Aussie mayor threatens to sue OpenAI; Minors face ChatGPT ban; President Biden on AI

AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 13

Let's play a game: Deepfake news anchor or a real person?

Brit AI video tech caught up in pro-PRC disinformation campaign

AI + ML11 Feb 2023 | 34

Will 2023 be the year of dynamite disinfo deepfakes, cooked up by rogue states?

And if so, what are we gonna do about it?

AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 16

China follows through on plan to ban deepfake tech

Synthetic media undermines national security, says internet regulator

AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 8

China bans deepfakes created without permission or for evil

'Deep synthesis service providers' otherwise free to create AI-generated humans in line with socialist values

AI + ML12 Dec 2022 | 3

Intel says it can sort the living human beings from the deepfakes in real time

Claims to be able to spot imposters in live video feeds within milliseconds

AI + ML15 Nov 2022 | 11

Phishing works so well crims won't bother with deepfakes, says Sophos chap

People reveal passwords if you ask nicely, so AI panic is overblown

Research17 Oct 2022 | 15

This rumor needs to Die Hard: Bruce Willis denies selling face to deepfake biz

Superstar is still exclusively a meat popsicle

Bootnotes04 Oct 2022 | 16

Here's how crooks will use deepfakes to scam your biz

Need some tools of deception? GitHub's got 'em

Cyber-crime28 Sep 2022 | 12

Binance exec says scammers made a 'deep fake hologram' of him to fool victims

That wasn't actually me on a Zoom call, it was a malicious AI clone built from TV interviews, claims PR

AI + ML23 Aug 2022 | 15

Real-time deepfakes can be beaten by a sideways glance

For now at least, until data catches up

AI + ML08 Aug 2022 | 10

FBI warning: Crooks are using deepfake videos in interviews for remote gigs

Yes. Of course I human. Why asking? Also, when you give passwords to database?

Cyber-crime29 Jun 2022 | 23

Amazon can't channel the dead, but its deepfake voices take a close second

Megacorp shows Alexa speaking like kid's deceased grandma

Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 22

Big Tech falls in line with Euro demands to fight bots, deepfakes, disinformation

Six percent of revenues at risk if Code of Practice broken

Personal Tech17 Jun 2022 | 24

1,000-plus AI-generated LinkedIn faces uncovered

More than 70 businesses created fake profiles to close sales

AI + ML28 Mar 2022 | 41

Good: People can spot a deepfake video. Bad: They're not so hot with text

Seeing isn't always believing

AI + ML01 Mar 2022 | 14

China reveals draft laws that heavily restrict deepfakes

Big Tech gets hauled in and reminded of its responsibility to keep China's internet nice

AI + ML31 Jan 2022 | 7

Facebook, academics think they've cracked spotting deepfakes by spotting how they're generated

99% accuracy in testing

AI + ML17 Jun 2021 | 19

ICYMI: A mom is accused of harassing daughter's cheerleader rivals with humiliating deepfake vids

Awesome, oh wow, like totally freak me out ... with this unexpected use of AI

AI + ML16 Mar 2021 | 18

South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet

In brief Plus: Watch a self-driving race car drive into a wall, and download the new version of PyTorch

AI + ML02 Nov 2020 | 34

51 years after humans first set foot on the Moon, a deepfaked Nixon mourns how Armstrong and Aldrin never made it home

I am not a .... {NASA nightmare brought to life by AI}

AI + ML20 Jul 2020 | 88

Facebook's $500k deepfake-detector AI contest drama: Winning team disqualified on buried consent technicality

Special report Oh OK, so NOW the social network cares about getting people's permission before using their data to train computer systems

AI + ML18 Jun 2020 | 32

Oh cool, tech service prices are plummeting. And by tech services, we mean botnet rentals and stolen credit cards

Supply and demand in action

Security27 May 2020 | 2