Deepfake

Good Faces Agency / Unsplash Valentine’s Day is here, so naturally, the country’s premier security agency has to warn the love-stricken souls about the risks of romance scams. In case that term doesn’t ring a bell, it involves a bad actor trapping a victim into a sham love affair. In 2022 alone, romance scams led to the loss of around $1.3 billion. But hey, humanity is driven by a primal urge to feel loved. To find a companion. That urge drives us towards online dating platforms, where an elaborate net waits for…

Most Palone singing “America the Bountiful”Photo: MidjourneySuper Bowl XVIII was jam-packed with celebrities, love stories, angry outbursts, and even some football. Many of us watched the Super Bowl on TV with our own two eyes, but Gizmodo set out to learn what the big game would have looked like through the eyes of an AI image generator.Gizmodo used Midjourney to create visual representations of some of the Super Bowl’s biggest moments. AI deepfakes are slowly becoming a central component of our society, so we figured we…

: There should not be a one-size-fits-all approach to government’s upcoming regulation on deepfakes, a software industry group which counts enterprise firms like Microsoft as its clients said in its representation to the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY). Washington DC-headquartered software industry group BSA The Software Alliance said that business-to-business and enterprise software services may not pose the same risk to user safety and public order and that the government should consider…

Representatives from Big Tech companies say a Liberal government bill that would begin regulating some artificial intelligence systems is too vague.Amazon and Microsoft executives told MPs at a House of Commons industry committee meeting Wednesday that Bill C-27 doesn't differentiate enough between high- and low-risk AI systems.The companies said abiding by the law as written would be costly.Nicole Foster, director of global artificial intelligence and Canada public policy for Amazon, said using the same approach for all…

The world is being ripped apart by AI-generated deepfakes, and the latest half-assed attempts to stop them aren’t doing a thing. Federal regulators outlawed deepfake robocalls on Thursday, like the ones impersonating President Biden in New Hampshire’s primary election. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Google released watermarks this week to label images as AI-generated. However, these measures lack the teeth necessary to stop AI deepfakes.ChatGPT’s Creator Buddies Up to Congress | Future Tech“They’re here to stay,” said Vijay…

Back in 2022, the European Commission released a proposal for a directive on how to combat domestic violence and violence against women in other forms. Now, the European Council and Parliament have agreed with the proposal to criminalize, among other things, different types of cyber-violence. The proposed rules will criminalize the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, including deepfakes made by AI tools, which could help deter revenge porn. Cyber-stalking, online harassment, misogynous hate speech and…

Deepfake “face swap” attacks skyrocketed by 704% from the first to the second half of 2023, according to new research. Analysts at iProov, a British biometric firm, attributed the surge to the growing accessibility of sophisticated generative AI tools.  With their ability to manipulate key traits of an image or video, face swaps made with GenAI are difficult to detect. They’re also user-friendly and affordable. To create convincing face swaps, all you need is off-the-shelf software. The…

Two companies based in Texas have been linked to a spate of robocalls that . The audio deepfake was used to urge New Hampshire voters not to participate in the state's presidential primary. New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said as many as 25,000 of the calls were made to residents of the state in January.Formella says an investigation has linked the source of the robocalls to Texan companies Life Corporation and Lingo Telecom. No charges have yet been filed against either company or Life Corporation's owner, a…

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) identified Lingo Telecom, a Texas-based wireless provider, as the company that transmitted deepfake robocalls impersonating President Biden. The FCC sent the company a cease and desist letter, according to a press release sent to Gizmodo Tuesday, threatening to permanently block Lingo’s operations.Bruce Willis is Keeping His Face“Lingo Telecom, LLC is apparently originating illegal robocall traffic,” said the FCC in its cease and desist letter. “Failure to comply with the steps…

Employees followed instructions given during the meeting and made 15 transfers totalling HK$200 million (Rs 212 crore) to five Hong Kong bank accounts. A deepfake video conference call where a digitally recreated avatar of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) ordered money transfers has cost a multinational company $25.6 million (Rs 212 crore), in a first-such scam.Employees at the company’s Hong Kong office were fooled by scammers who created digitally altered versions of the company’s Chief Financial Officer…