deepfake
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8 Times ‘Deepfake’ Videos Were Actually Real
Digitally altered and AI-generated videos, dubbed “deepfakes,” have existed for years and have recently seen drastic improvements. Those videos, mixed with the extreme reach of social media and declining trust in traditional media, have experts worried of harmful rises in political disinformation; those same experts are also worried we’re quickly approaching a new, more complicated issue:…
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12 Companies Racing to Create AI Deepfake Detectors
When an AI-generated image of an explosion occurring outside the Pentagon proliferated on social media earlier this week, it provided a brief preview of a digital information disaster AI researchers have warned against for years. The image was clearly fabricated, but that didn’t stop several prominent accounts like Russian state-controlled RT and Bloomberg news impersonator…
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Police in China Arrest Man for Allegedly Lying About a Train Crash Using ChatGPT
Chinese police arrested a man Sunday in what could be one of the first precedent-setting cases of a person using ultra-popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to allegedly spread misinformation. That, or it could be a new means for state actors to discredit real news by proclaiming it’s all a lie manufactured by generative AI.
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8 Music Videos That Show How Fast Deepfakes Are Evolving
The sudden explosion of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other large language models has led to renewed attention on artificial intelligence that’s capable of mimicking speech, especially for well-known figures. It has left some spectators fearful of a rise in deepfake-fuelled misinformation, copyright chaos, or possibly even the destruction of reality itself. It will almost certainly lead…