Collaborate Disseminate
In this week’s episode your hosts practice standing on one leg, Carole gives Graham a deepfake quiz, and we investigate how Strava may be exposing the movements of world leaders.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winn… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #391: The secret Strava service, deepfakes, and crocodiles
In episode 21 of “The AI Fix””, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, and a multi-limbed robot with a passion for classic… Continue reading The AI Fix #21: Virtual Trump, barking mad AI, and a robot dog with a flamethrower
For years now, AI has undermined the public’s ability to trust what it sees, hears, and reads. The Republican National Committee released a provocative ad offering an “AI-generated look into the country’s possible future if Joe Biden is re-elected,” showing apocalyptic, machine-made images of ruined cityscapes and chaos at the border. Fake robocalls purporting to be from Biden urged New Hampshire residents not to vote in the 2024 primary election. This summer, the Department of Justice cracked down on a Russian bot farm that was using AI to impersonate Americans on social media, and OpenAI disrupted an …
The chair of the United States Foreign Relations Committee was targeted by a sophisticated deepfake operation which impersonated a top Ukrainian official, in what was an apparent attempt at election interference.
Read more in my article on the Hot f… Continue reading Deepfake Ukrainian diplomat targeted US senator on Zoom call
Experts believe schemes like this will become more common now that the technical barriers that once existed around generative artificial intelligence have decreased.
The post Sophistication of AI-Backed Operation Targeting Senator Points to Future of D… Continue reading Sophistication of AI-Backed Operation Targeting Senator Points to Future of Deepfake Schemes
When it comes to adversarial use of AI, the real question is whether the AI threat is a deep fake, or whether the deepfake is the AI threat.
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In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on “do no evil”, and our hosts feel lik… Continue reading The AI Fix #12: AI made from human brain cells, and is there life after death?
Scammers are once again using deepfake technology to dupe unwary internet Facebook and Instagram users into making unwise cryptocurrency investments.
AI-generated videos promoting fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platform Immediate Edge have used d… Continue reading UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prince William deepfaked in investment scam campaign
Scammers are once again using deepfake technology to dupe unwary internet Facebook and Instagram users into making unwise cryptocurrency investments.
AI-generated videos promoting fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platform Immediate Edge have used d… Continue reading UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prince William deepfaked in investment scam campaign
The latest in what will be a continuing arms race between creating and detecting videos:
The new tool the research project is unleashing on deepfakes, called “MISLnet”, evolved from years of data derived from detecting fake images and video with tools that spot changes made to digital video or images. These may include the addition or movement of pixels between frames, manipulation of the speed of the clip, or the removal of frames.
Such tools work because a digital camera’s algorithmic processing creates relationships between pixel color values. Those relationships between values are very different in user-generated or images edited with apps like Photoshop…
Continue reading New Research in Detecting AI-Generated Videos