At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 Sophia Wu (Ant Group) spoke on "Fighting the deepfake threats."
Generative AI has made it much easier and cheaper to create new content but raises trust concerns due to deepfake attacks. Using AI, fraudsters can craft fake videos from victims' images, enabling identity fraud. In her talk, Wu called for collaboration to tackle #deepfake threats with new complementary Web standards.
Prosecutors have filed 26 criminal charges against a political consultant responsible for a robocall that used a deepfake Joe Biden to dissuade voters from participating in New Hampshire's primary.
I wonder if we might see similar AI-powered shenanigans in the run-up to the UK's General Election?
The Romanian Ministry of Digitalization released a form that people can use to report malicious #deepfake materials. What counts as malicious? Fraud, propaganda, disinformation.
98% of #deepfake material is pornographic. 99% of the victims of deepfake pornography identify as women.
In Ro, journalists & activists have been adamant about showing the violence against women perpetrated online and aided by technology.
Yet, the Gov. chose to focus on 2% of all deepfakes, thus creating a false narrative that this tech is used mainly to influence elections and commit fraud - when, in fact, the majority of victims are being ignored. 2/4