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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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Trump Mocks DeSantis’ Botched Campaign Announcement With a Hitler Deepfake
Former President Donald Trump released a clip of a fake Twitter spaces event Wednesday where he used what appeared to be the deepfaked voices of Elon Musk, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, a coughing Dick Cheney, Satan, and, yes, Adolf Hitler, to mock Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The bizarre two-minute clip, which was originally uploaded to…
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‘Verified’ Twitter Accounts Spread Pentagon Explosion Hoax
Breaking news: The U.S. Pentagon is NOT under attack. But that didn’t stop false reports of an explosion from circulating widely online along with a seemingly AI-generated image of billowing black smoke near the Department of Defence headquarters on Monday.