Collaborate Disseminate
So-called artificial intelligence apps like Zao had been stirring up controversy with their potential abusive use to beat facial recognition systems. The Chinese deepfake video app proved itself to be widely popular as users had fun transplanting their… Continue reading CEO voice deepfake blamed for scam that stole $243,000
Last Thursday two lowly masters grad students, Aaron Gokaslan and Vanya Cohen managed to replicate the secretive OpenAI model and cheekily named their version OpenGPT-2. The code can be downloaded from this Google Colab page and apparently no prior experience in language modeling is required to use it. More useful …read more
Continue reading AI Poised to Turn the Internet into Gibberish
It’s been around forever, but in a modern digital era marked by influence campaigns and deep fakes, information warfare has become much easier to carry out. Continue reading Fake News and Influence: Information Warfare in the Digital Age
Mice can interpret speech phonemes correctly up to 80% of the time without falling for semantic hoodwinks like humans do. Continue reading Fake news doesn’t (always) fool mice
If you think that the media files you receive on your end-to-end encrypted secure messaging apps can not be tampered with, you need to think again.
Security researchers at Symantec yesterday demonstrated multiple interesting attack scenarios against W… Continue reading Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files You Receive Via WhatsApp and Telegram
It’s the first state to enact a deepfakes ban, but it’s not going to be the last: laws are being considered in many other states. Continue reading Deepfake revenge porn now a crime in Virginia
Clickbait health/nutrition posts will sink in page rankings due to two ranking updates, Facebook announced. Continue reading Facebook’s down-ranking those ‘miracle cure’ health posts we all hate
Videos from Miami Police Department body cams were leaked and stored in unprotected, internet-facing databases, then sold on the darkweb. Continue reading Miami police body cam videos up for sale on the darkweb
“I’m not a voyeur, I’m a technology enthusiast,” says the creator, who combined deepfake AI with a need for cash to get ka-CHING! Continue reading $50 DeepNude app undresses women with a single click
Google has expanded its internet safety guide for children with techniques and games to help them be more info-literate online. Continue reading Google creates educational tools to help kids spot fake news