Tag: Fake news
The fight to stay ahead of deepfake videos before the 2020 US election
San Francisco (CNN Business)With the 2020 US presidential election looming, political leaders, presidential candidates and the country’s intelligence chief are worried about doctored videos being…
Can artificial intelligence help end fake news?
Fake news has already fanned the flames of distrust towards media, politics and established institutions around the world. And while new technologies like artificial intelligence…
Fake videos bring a new era of fake news
This year will see a new level of malicious posts on social media, as a hoax or fake videos herald a new low in fake…
These projects are using AI to fight misinformation
A joint initiative of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has awarded $750,000 to projects that aim to study how artificial intelligence can…
Here Are The Real Fake News Sites
The internet is teeming with fake news sites. That’s not a political statement, but the conclusion of a new study by DomainTools, a security analysts…
The AI that can write a fake news story from a handful of words
The potential for software to be able to produce authentic-looking fake news articles comes during global concerns over technology’s role in the spread of disinformation….
Deep fakes are fake news on steroids, and we’re unsure how to fight them
Fake news took the world by storm in the last few years, and it’s blamed for worsening existing political and social problems and even creating…
Face Off: Researchers Battle AI-Generated Deep Fake Videos
Convincing Face-Swapping Clips Easy to Create With Gaming Laptops and Free Tools. Security researchers are facing off against deep-fake videos over fears that they might…
Anti-election meddling group makes A.I.-powered Trump impersonator
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting frighteningly close to being able to mimic humans, and advances in the technology could be a major risk for democracies…
How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes
Artificial intelligence is fueling the next phase of misinformation. The new type of synthetic media known as deepfakes poses major challenges for newsrooms when it…
Deepfake videos the new weapon in fake news
The election interference tactics originally deployed by Russia against the US and Europe are now global. Hackers across the world have exploited weaknesses in e-mail…
These 7 Entrepreneurs Are Using NLP To Counter Fake News Problem In India
In India especially there have been several scenarios of fake news, which has led to internal strife. But there have also been attempts underway to…
Deepfakes 2.0: The terrifying future of AI and fake news
Imagine seeing yourself in a porn video. Naked. Violated. Except you have no recollection of the act, of the room you’re in, partner you’re with,…
Seeing Isn’t Believing: This New AI System Can Create “Deep Fake” Videos
Sophisticated image processing technology threatens to swamp the internet with next-generation fake news. What happens when you can’t trust what your eyes see on screen?…
Next-gen deepfakes can falsely put words in people’s mouths
Deepfake. It’s a word that’s entered the modern lexicon for all the wrong reasons. Combining the phrase deep learning with the word fake, the AI image-processing technique can…
True Lies: Fake-Video Technology Called ‘Toxic’ Threat to National Security
The rapidly evolving technology that produces “deep fakes”—convincing videos of people saying and doing things that are completely concocted—is now widely accessible, and creating nightmarish…
Deepfake video technology is the next big thing in fake news
Fake news is one of the scourges of our increasingly connected world. With billions having instant access to social media sites and the web, misinformation…
Deep Fakes: A Looming Crisis for National Security, Democracy and Privacy?
“We are truly fucked.” That was Motherboard’s spot-on reaction to deep fake sex videos (realistic-looking videos that swap a person’s face into sex scenes actually…
