Manipulated videos are rapidly becoming a fixture of the 2020 election. On Aug. 30, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)…
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Focus Tag: Deep Fakes
Deepfakes: A new disinformation threat? | Democracy Reporting International
by Madeline Brady
September 2, 2020
Highly realistic manipulated videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI), so-called deepfakes, are just around the corner. Concerns are rising that…
The Beirut Explosion – Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? Is It A Faked Video Of A Missile? | Bellingcat
by Nick Waters
August 7, 2020
In the days after every catastrophe, it is inevitable that rumours and misinformation will be passed around on social networks…
The owner of WeChat thinks deepfakes could actually be good | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
July 29, 2020
In a new white paper about its plans for AI, translated by China scholars Jeffrey Ding and Caroline Meinhardt, Tencent,…
Addressing Deepfakes in the U.S. 2020 Elections | Center for an Informed Public
July 29, 2020
In mid July, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP), together with Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program, brought…
Deepfakes and the New AI-Generated Fake Media Creation-Detection Arms Race | Scientific American
by Siwei Lyu
July 22, 2020
Falsified videos created by AI—in particular, by deep neural networks (DNNs)—are a recent twist to the disconcerting problem of online…
Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier | Reuters
by Raphael Satter
July 16, 2020
Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a…
Deepfakes aren’t very good—nor are the tools to detect them | Ars Technica
by Will Knight
June 15, 2020
We're lucky that deepfake videos aren’t a big problem yet. The best deepfake detector to emerge from a major Facebook-led effort to…
The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn’t politics. It’s porn. | Vox
by Cleo Abram
June 9, 2020
Kristen Bell first found out there were deepfake porn videos of her online from her husband, the actor Dax Shepard.…
‘Deepfakes’ are here. These deceptive videos erode trust in all news media. | Washington Post
by Cristian Vaccari and Andrew Chadwick
May 29, 2020
In January, Facebook and Twitter published new policies for dealing with “deepfakes,” or what the industry terms “synthetic media” — audiovisual clips created with…