The 21st century's answer to Photoshopping, deepfakes use a form of artificial intelligence called deep learning to make images of fake events,...
56 months ago

What is a deepfake? A deepfake refers to a specific kind of synthetic media where a person in an image or video is swapped with another person's...
50 months ago

To make a deepfake video of someone, a creator would first train a neural network on many hours of real video footage of the person to give it a...
53 months ago

Deepfakes can be used in ways that are highly disturbing. Candidates in a political campaign can be targeted by manipulated videos in which they...
67 months ago

At a minimum, governments need to fund the development of media forensic techniques for detecting deepfakes. There is currently an arms race...
68 months ago

As AI-generated deepfakes are being used to spread false information in elections in the U.S. and around the world, policymakers,...
7 months ago

Deepfakes threaten to grow from an Internet oddity to a widely destructive political and social force. Society needs to act now to prepare itself.
52 months ago

One distressing headline out of New Hampshire as voters began to cast in-person primary ballots is that a fake version of President Joe...
8 months ago

Will the lure of deepfakes prove irresistible to democratic governments? What questions should governments ask—and who in government should...
6 months ago

Thanks to the rise of “deepfakes”—highly realistic and difficult-to-detect digital manipulations of audio or video—it is becoming easier...
69 months ago