"For the first time we’ve seen deepfake propaganda and misinformation that has attempted to influence a war," said the study, led by scholars at University College Cork in Ireland.
Wie brisant das Thema ist, war in der breiteren Öffentlichkeit vor kurzem noch kaum bekannt. Vor gut einem Jahr hat eine Kooperation von @netzpolitik_feed und dem @spiegel gezeigt, wie leicht sich populäre Smartphone-Apps dafür missbrauchen lassen.
Deepfakes will be the cause of multiple October Surprises in 2024. The post-truth era meets manufactured consent meets reality distortion fields at the scale of SaaS.
An alleged deepfake of UK opposition leader Keir Starmer shows the dangers of fake audio.
Audio deepfakes are emerging as a major risk to the democratic process, as the UK—and more than 50 other countries—move toward elections in 2024.
Manipulating audio content is becoming cheaper and easier, while fact-checkers say it’s difficult to quickly and definitively identify a recording as fake.
"A new report from Freedom House...found #political leaders in at least 16 countries over the past year have deployed #deepfakes to “sow doubt, smear opponents, or influence public debate.” ...at least two originated in the United States.
Popular YouTuber MrBeast is the latest famous face to be impersonated in a deepfake scam circulating on social media. An ad featuring a fake MrBeast appeared on TikTok offering viewers the latest iPhone 15 for just $2. TechCrunch reports: https://flip.it/JLEv5i
Actor Tom Hanks and television personality Gayle King have also had their likenesses stolen in deepfake ads this week: https://flip.it/kLlpoX
Sophie ist unfreiwillig in einem Porno gelandet und wurde mit dem Material erpresst. #Deepfakes haben ihr Leben damit für immer verändert. Wie die Technologie funktioniert und wir ihr euch schützen könnt, zeigt die Doku vom MDR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuX7rcJRBbw
In the age of #AI and #DeepFakes a video produced by Russian state television offers no evidence of any kind. If anything, it may exist solely as a complex irony, an example of how the literal meaning directly opposes the suggested meaning.
I just submitted a comment to the FEC strongly urging them to ban the use of AI by any campaign, PAC or other entity or organization seeking to inform or educate voters regarding any election or issue.
When they returned to school after the summer holidays, more than twenty girls from Almendralejo in southern Spain received naked photos of themselves on their mobile phones.
None of them had taken the pictures, but they looked completely real.
The images had been stolen from their Instagram accounts, altered using an artificial intelligence application and then shared in Whatsapp groups.
#AI#GenerativeAI#Deepfakes#Google#Microsoft#BigTech: "When fans of Kaitlyn Siragusa, a popular 29-year-old internet personality known as Amouranth, want to watch her play video games, they will subscribe for $5 a month to her channel on Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch. When they want to watch her perform adult content, they’ll subscribe for $15 a month for access to her explicit OnlyFans page.
And when they want to watch her do things she is not doing and has never done, for free, they’ll search on Google for so-called “deepfakes” — videos made with artificial intelligence that fabricate a lifelike simulation of a sexual act featuring the face of a real woman.
Siragusa, a frequent target of deepfake creators, said each time her staff finds something new on the search engine, they file a complaint with Google and fill out a form requesting the particular link be delisted, a time and energy draining process. “The problem,” Siragusa said, “is that it’s a constant battle.”
During the recent AI boom, the creation of nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes has surged, with the number of videos increasing ninefold since 2019, according to research from independent analyst Genevieve Oh. Nearly 150,000 videos, which have received 3.8 billion views in total, appeared across 30 sites in May 2023, according to Oh’s analysis. Some of the sites offer libraries of deepfake programming, featuring the faces of celebrities like Emma Watson or Taylor Swift grafted onto the bodies of porn performers. Others offer paying clients the opportunity to “nudify” women they know, such as classmates or colleagues."
#AI#DeepFakes#Doppelgangers#VirtualAvatars#BigData: "In the ongoing, historic Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strike, a major point of contention is how AI and emerging technologies threaten these workers’ creative and intellectual rights. In particular, actors are raising concerns about “digital doubles” — the AI-powered ability to reproduce an actor’s likeness, voice, and appearance, which studios could presumably use (and profit from) in perpetuity, without the actor’s direct participation. Concerned actors are grappling with a question that strikes at the heart of their profession: What are the consequences of having a digital double when your persona is the foundation of your craft and career?"
Study: Deepfakes weaponized in Russia's war against Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
"For the first time we’ve seen deepfake propaganda and misinformation that has attempted to influence a war," said the study, led by scholars at University College Cork in Ireland.