deep fakes

The Georgia state House voted Thursday to crack down on deepfake artificial intelligence (AI) videos ahead of this year’s elections. The House voted 148-22 to approve the legislation, which attempts to stop the spread of misinformation from deceptive video impersonating candidates. The legislation, H.B. 986, would make it a felony to publish a deepfake within 90 days of an election with the intention of misleading or confusing voters about a candidate or their chance of being elected. The bill would…

In a captivating turn of events at the Mathrubhumi International Literary Festival, viewers were treated to a unique encounter as an AI-generated replica of Shashi Tharoor took on the role of interviewer, engaging the real-life MP himself in a dialogue that blurred the lines between reality and technology. Here is what transpired at this engrossing encounter:Human and AI Face-OffThe AI-generated Tharoor, which was amazingly fully equipped with the MP's language and style, posed questions prepared in advance, seamlessly…

Your bio says you have “been dreaming about the artificial since a young age.” Were you dreaming of artificial intelligence, too? What were the dreams of young Toby like, and how different were they to those of Professor Toby? Author Toby Walsh (TU Berlin/ Christian Kielmann) Those dreams were fuelled by science-fiction works by authors like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke who painted a picture of a future full of robots and intelligent computers. Once I started programming, I realised that I could help build…

Artificial intelligence-generated frauds such as deepfake media shall potentially increase risks of identity theft, phishing scams, and cyber bullying among children, cybersecurity solutions firm McAfee has said in its predictions for 2024.“From phishing emails so real that even the experts will have trouble telling fact from fiction to deepfakes that could impact everything including the future of our children, and beyond, it has never been more important for people to be educated about the threat landscape,” said Steve…

Yet another online scam was reported in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala and this one was quite novel in its scope and implementation. A man was cheated of Rs. 40000 through an AI-based video call. The victim got a video call from an unidentified number and the caller acted as a former colleague. The reason why the victim was duped was because the cybercriminals used Artificial intelligence tools to successfully impersonate someone the man knew. The scam was carried out through WhatsApp video calling.During the investigation,…

About half of Indians surveyed said that they are unable to differentiate between the real and cloned voice of a person while 83 percent of the victims of voice scams have faced the loss of money, online security firm McAfee said in a report.The survey of 7,054 people was conducted in seven countries, including 1,010 respondents from India, around artificial intelligence-enabled voice scams by imposters. The report suggests using a verbal codeword among family members and trusted close friends as one of the protective…

Image generating AI models have been here for a while. But now, they are getting too good, scarily good, in fact. Check out these images of people that do not exist. It will give you goosebumps. Ever since DALL-E, a text-prompt based AI image generator by OpenAI, was unveiled in January 2021, the possibilities of what artificial intelligence is capable of has increased exponentially. Over the last one year, we have seen multiple platforms pop up which can create stunning art with simple language text prompts. And while…