The ability of #AI tools to readily generate highly convincing "#deepfake" text, audio, images, and (soon) video is, arguably, one of the greatest near-term concerns about this emerging technology. Fundamental to any proposal to address this issue is the ability to accurately distinguish "deepfake" content from "genuine" content. Broadly speaking, there are two sides to this ability:
Reducing false positives. That is, reducing the number of times someone mistakes a deepfake for the genuine article. Technologies to do so include watermarking of human and AI content, and digital forensics.
Reducing false negatives. That is, reducing the number of times one believes content that is actually genuine content to be a deepfake. There are cryptographic protocols to help achieve this, such as digital signatures and other provenance authentication technology.
Much of the current debate about deepfakes has focused on the first aim (reducing false positives), where the technology is quite weak (AI, by design, is very good at training itself to pass any given metric of inauthenticity, as per Goodhart's law); also, measures to address the first aim often come at the expense of the second. However, the second aim is at least as important, and arguably much more technically and socially feasible, with the adoption of cryptographically secure provenance standards. One such promising standard is the C2PA standard https://c2pa.org/ that is already adopted by several major media and technology companies (though, crucially, social media companies will also need to buy into such a standard and implement it by default to users for it to be truly effective).
#Twitter und #Microsoft stehen in der Kritik: Über Musks Plattform gingen gefälschte Nacktbilder von Taylor #Swift
viral, die offenbar mit einem Microsoft-Dienst erstellt worden waren. Verantwortung wollen die Konzerne nicht übernehmen. Ein Kommentar.
A girl in the UK allegedly took her own life the other day because of #deepfake bullying and this story shows how it is spreading rapidly. Do you think the inventors of GANs even appreciate, let alone express concern over, the fact that their tech now has a body count attached to it that will inevitably grow?
It is going to get very interesting to see what happens with #DeepFake#AI in the coming elections. My gut reaction is that we may well face a collapse of all #Democracy. I say this because I suspect we will not be able to contain use of AI by anti-Democratic actors.
Fans of the star and lawmakers condemned the images, probably generated by artificial intelligence, after they were shared with millions of social media users. #ai#privacy#deepfake
Two fake-audio experts say that the deepfake robocall of #PresidentBiden received by some #voters last week was likely created with technology from Silicon Valley’s favorite voice cloning startup.
The Taylor Swift AI deepfakes are horrific. They are also just the tip of the iceberg.
Resharing my WIRED story from December, that shows the number of non consensual (they all are) AI porn videos has grown at an alarming rate—244,625 videos at the time of writing. That doesn't include the thousands of still AI images being created every single day
As AI technology has advanced—as well as becoming easier to use and having more realistic outputs—this problem is only getting worse. Many reporters, myself included, have written about this since 2017 and in that time technology companies and lawmakers have failed time and time again to take this seriously
In addition to #racist#birtherism attacks & referring to her as “Nimrada” (not her birth-name BTWs), #Trump is now saying #Haley isn’t brown enough to have dealt w/ #racism.
Today, Trump attacked #NikkiHaley by questioning her claim that she was teased as a young "brown girl."
He reposted a video on social media w/the caption:
“ALERT. An image of Nikki Haley as a young ‘Brown Girl’ has been released”
then it has someone saying,
“Where is the brown at? Show me the brown.”
“online influencers w/close ties to the #Trump campaign have begun posting #misogynistic, highly sexualized videos & images of #Haley…. One of the videos, produced by a group called the Dilley Meme Team, uses #DeepFake tech to put the sexual innuendo in her own voice.”
Interesting, scammers are getting sophisticated... Ran into a Youtube #cryptoscam stream that is piggybacking off the latest SpaceX rocket launch and uses a Elon Musk #deepfake (voice and lipsynced video) to try to scam people into scanning a QR code and going to a link where they send their crypto to the scammer in hopes of doubling the amount.
Discover #TechSonar 2023/2024! #Deepfake is the manipulation of digital content to make an event or someone appear differently from what was in reality. The fast evolving technology for the creation of deepfakes poses enormous challenges.
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