Deepfake

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

Facebook to ban deepfake videos in posts and ads, sort of: Vids must be believable, made by AI, and not be parody

All that other made-up crap? That's still fine, it seems

AI + ML07 Jan 2020 | 8

Reasons to be fearful 2020: Smishing, public Wi-Fi, deepfakes... and all the usual suspects

Too soon for New Year Resolutions?

Security06 Dec 2019 | 23

Rekognition still racist, politicians desperate over deepfakes, and a good reason to go to (some) music festivals

Roundup Let's bring you up to speed on the latest misuses of machine-learning tech

AI + ML28 Oct 2019 | 16

Online deepfakes double in just nine months, scaring politicians – and fooling the rest of us

Surprise, surprise, a whopping 96 per cent of them are X-rated

AI + ML08 Oct 2019 | 48

Whoa, bot wars: As cybercrooks add more AI to their arsenal, the goodies will have to too

The future is automated, says Trend Micro bod

Security13 Sep 2019 | 15

Tempted to play with that Chinese Zao app for deep-fake frolics? Don't bother if you want to keep your privacy

Surpising no one, software will keep vids of your face forever

AI + ML04 Sep 2019 | 29

No DeepNudes please, we're GitHub: Code repo deep-sixed as Discord bans netizens who sought out vile AI app

Including one of El Reg's Discord accounts. Oops!

AI + ML09 Jul 2019 | 30

DeepNude's makers tried to deep-six their pervy AI app. Web creeps have other ideas: Cracked copies shared online as code decompiled

This genie is definitely not going back in the bottle

AI + ML02 Jul 2019 | 127

DeepNude deep-nuked: AI photo app stripped clothes from women to render them naked. Now, it's stripped from web

Our 'X-ray specs' software can be misused? And everyone wants it? Oh no, who'd have thought, say creators

AI + ML27 Jun 2019 | 137

Deepfake 3.0 (beta), the bad news: This AI can turn ONE photo of you into a talking head. Good news: There is none

Videos Watch Rasputin sing like, uh, Beyonce, Einstein natter away...

AI + ML19 Jun 2019 | 46

Politically linked deepfake LinkedIn profile sparks spy fears, Apple cooks up AI transfer tech, and more

Roundup Your Monday morning catch-up on machine-learning tech

AI + ML17 Jun 2019 | 10

'AI is not the cause, it’s an accelerant. The pace of change is challenging' Experts give Congress deepfakes straight dope

Analysis People will share anything scandalous, duh – El Reg might well be Exhibit A

AI + ML13 Jun 2019 | 111

These boffins' deepfake AI vids are next-gen. But don't take our word for it. Why not ask Zuck or Kim Kardashian...

Video 'Text editing' system for speeches to change meanings emerges along with CEO-goading art attack

AI + ML12 Jun 2019 | 69

There's a scarily good 'deepfakes' YouTube channel that's quietly growing – and it's freaking everyone out

Videos Watch for yourself

AI + ML28 May 2019 | 47

Oh dear! Amazon's facial recognition is racist and sexist – and there's a JLaw deep fake that will make you want to tear out your eyes

Roundup The week's other news in AI

AI + ML03 Feb 2019 | 43

Huawei and Intel hype up AI hardware, TensorFlow tidbits, and more

Roundup A light snack of machine-learning news

AI + ML13 Jan 2019 | 62

Fight AI with AI! Code taught to finger naughty deepfake vids made by machine-learning algos

It works for now because the forgeries are quite easy to spot

AI + ML06 Nov 2018 | 6

The eyes don't have it! AI's 'deep-fake' vids surge ahead in realism

Videos Watch John Oliver magically transforming into Stephen Colbert

AI + ML11 Sep 2018 | 29

Fake prudes: Catholic uni AI bot taught to daub bikinis on naked chicks

NSFW Send nudes plz... for the purposes of training this machine-learning software

AI + ML20 Jul 2018 | 137

New York State is trying to ban 'deepfakes' and Hollywood isn't happy

Disney and NBCUniversal say the new bill is potentially unconstitutional

Science12 Jun 2018 | 55

Uh oh! Here's yet more AI that creates creepy fake talking heads

Video We're on the road to nowhere – come on inside, taking that ride from reality

AI + ML04 Jun 2018 | 23