Turn selfies into classical portraits with the AI that fuels deepfakes
It’s the same AI technique behind deepfakes, but also a $432,500 artwork.
The news: The tool lets users upload their photos, then view a classical-style faux watercolour, oil, or ink portrait based on the photo a few seconds later. Each one is unique. You can give it a go here.
The widespread use of artificial intelligence to create deepfake celebrity porn videos for Chinese internet users has raised fresh questions about the use and abuse of technology.
While China’s strict internet controls should, in theory, prevent people from accessing pornographic content, an investigation by The Beijing News published on Thursday uncovered numerous platforms where people were selling services that offered to swap the faces of celebrities, or members of the public, onto images of porn stars for less than US$1.
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The threat deepfake audio poses to businesses cannot be understated. While someone using deepfake audio to pretend they’re the CEO of a company and getting that company’s accounting department to wire them $1 million because of an “emergency” is one thing, the tech could also be used for sabotage.
What if one rival–or even a nation-state–wanted to sink Apple’s stock price? A well-timed deepfake audio clip that purports to show Tim Cook having a private conversation with someone about iPhone sales tanking could do just that–wiping billions off the stock market in seconds.
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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee wants to know how social media will handle deepfake videos ahead of the next presidential election.
Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has sent letters asking Facebook, Google and Twitter how they plan to deal with deepfakes ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Schiff’s concerns follow the disinformation campaigns that spread across social media during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a statement released Monday.
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This video was created using Deepfake technology.
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The PetSwap tool by Nvidia uses an algorithm similar to the ones used for so-called deepfakes to transform an image of your beloved pet into an image of another animal.
Ever wanted to know what your pet would look like if it were a different animal?
Well, whether you have or not, there’s now a new web tool that allows you to find out.
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Generative adversarial networks, the algorithms responsible for deepfakes, have developed a bit of a bad rap of late. But their ability to synthesize highly realistic images could also have important benefits for medical diagnosis.
Deep-learning algorithms are excellent at pattern-matching in images; they can be trained to detect different types of cancer in a CT scan, differentiate diseases in MRIs, and identify abnormalities in an x-ray.
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To combat the growing threat of spreading misinformation ahead of the U.S. 2020 general election, The Wall Street Journal has formed a committee to help reporters navigate fake content.
Last September, the publisher assigned 21 of its staff from across its newsroom to form the committee. Each of them is on-call to answer reporters’ queries about whether a piece of content has been manipulated.
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Virginia has become one of the first places to outlaw the sharing of computer-generated pornography known as deepfakes.
The US state has done so by amending an existing law which criminalised so-called revenge porn – the malicious sharing of explicit photos or videos without the victim’s consent.
It now makes clear that the category includes “falsely-created” material.
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