Deepfake

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

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