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Directed by Robert Zemeckis, "Here" has its reuniting co-stars looking younger, and maybe uncannier, than ever.
Artificial Intelligence

New Movie Uses AI to De-Age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright to What They Looked Like in the 90s

By Frank Landymore

After raising such a stink last year when someone used AI to spoof his voice, Drake is now in hot water for doing the same to Tupac. 
Artificial Intelligence

Tupac’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake for Deepfaking Dead Rapper’s Voice

By Noor Al-Sibai

German artist Mathias Vef and designer Benedikt Groß have created a "deepfake camera" that can immediately undress its subjects.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Camera Takes Pictures of People But Instantly Makes Them Naked

By Victor Tangermann

Tennessee has enacted a new law against AI fakes — but legal experts are concerned that it may be twisted to criminalize non-AI behavior.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Slam Tennessee’s New Law Banning AI Impersonations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google researchers say a new AI model called Vlogger can transform a single still image of a person into a moving, talking avatar.
Google

Dystopian Google AI Tool Turns Still Images into Creepy Talking Videos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two Miami teenagers were charged with felonies for creating AI-generated deepfake nudes of underage classmates, a Wired report reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

Middle Schoolers Arrested for Making AI Nudes of Classmates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The bill, called DEFIANCE for short, would allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake porn to sue its creators, distributors, and receivers.
Artificial Intelligence

AOC Announces Bill That Would Let Women Sue People Who Make Deepfake Porn of Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" the dead dictator Suharto via deepfake amid the nation's ongoing elections.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Used to Resurrect Dead Dictator to Sway Election

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A multinational company was scammed out of $25.6 million by a hacker, who was using a deepfake version of their CFO on a video call.
Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Steal $25 Million by Deepfaking Finance Boss

By Victor Tangermann

It's official: major music label Universal Music Group has yanked its catalogs from TikTok, including Taylor Swift, Drake, and Justin Bieber.
Artificial Intelligence

TikToks Go Silent as Major Record Label Pulls All Its Music

By Victor Tangermann

To curb the spread of nonconsensual AI deepfake porn of Taylor Swift, Twitter-formerly-X decided to block all searches for the star's name.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter’s Idiotic Response to AI Porn: Block All Searches for “Taylor Swift”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is seemingly appalled by all of the deepfakes of Taylor Swift that have been flooding social media feeds.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Horrified by AI-Generated Taylor Swift Images

By Victor Tangermann

Viral photos on both sides of the Isreal-Hamas conflict have been revealed to be AI fakes — and the problem is only going to get worse
Artificial Intelligence

Viral Images of Dead Infants in Israel-Gaza War Are AI Fakes, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

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Google

Google and Universal Music Reportedly Want to Monetize Deepfaked AI Songs

By Frank Landymore

Background actors recall how they were scanned with little heads up, fearing that their digitized selves will be used by studios without pay.
Artificial Intelligence

Background Actor Describes When Marvel Made Her Go to a Strange Trailer to Be Scanned

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that they can implant false memories by generating deepfake clips of movie remakes that were never actually made.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Implant Subjects With Fake Memories Using Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

A Netflix reality show has couples watch their partners cheat on them — and then has participants guess whether it was real or deepfaked.
Artificial Intelligence

Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite violating a number of content policies, nonconsensual deepfake porn is insanely easy to find on search engines Google and Bing.
Google

Google Is Sending Users Straight to Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a burgeoning TikTok true crime subgenre that uses AI to digitally resurrect child murder victims in disturbing tell-all videos.
Artificial Intelligence

True Crime Ghouls Are Using AI to Resurrect Murdered Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

Generative AI-powered tools are making it easy to create deepfakes — and lawyers are trying to seize the moment as an opportunity.
Artificial Intelligence

Reality Is Melting as Lawyers Claim Real Videos Are Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

Move over, AI-generated SEO spam — AI-powered news anchors are here. Meet Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter from Kuwait News.
Artificial Intelligence

Media Outlet Shows Off AI-Powered News Presenter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New level of parasocial relationships just dropped: Swifties are using AI voice-generation tech as a way to bring Taylor Swift's voice to fake quotes.
Artificial Intelligence

Swifties Are Using AI to Make Taylor Swift Say Nice Things to Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Military's Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is hoping to deploy deepfakes in disinformation campaigns as part of its psy-op efforts.
Future Society

US Military Caught Figuring Out How to Use Deepfakes for Psy-Op Campaigns

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An impressive new deepfake video reimagines the well-known cast of Harry Potter as a 1980s-style ad for the Spanish luxury fashion house Balenciaga.
Artificial Intelligence

Perplexing AI Video Turns “Harry Potter” Into Balenciaga Ad

By Victor Tangermann

An advertisement featuring a deepfaked Joe Rogan is being used to promote a scientifically dubious brand of male enhancement product on TikTok.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Deepfaked Joe Rogan to Sell a Male Enhancement Product

By Noor Al-Sibai

Shocker: people aren't quite sure that they trust artificial intelligence to operate in their best interests, per a new poll. 
Artificial Intelligence

Almost Three Quarters of Americans Distrust Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's only been a few days since gaming streamer Atrioc admitted to buying deepfake porn of his colleagues, but in the interim, all hell has broken loose.
Artificial Intelligence

The Deepfake Porn Scandal Is Tearing the Streaming Community Apart

By Noor Al-Sibai

Brandon Ewing, a popular Twitch streamer who goes by "Atrioc," apologized for viewing NSFW deepfake porn that may have been of female streamers.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitch Streamer Tearfully Apologizes for Looking at Deepfaked Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new British TV show called "Deep Fake Neighbor Wars" is betting big on deepfakes and is putting celebrities up against each other as discontent neighbors.
Artificial Intelligence

Trashy TV Prank Show Deepfakes Celebrities Into Jackass-Style Situations

By Victor Tangermann

The likes of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, and Leonardo DiCaprio are among some of the biggest names on the planet who are getting deepfaked into ads.
Future Society

Companies Are Deepfaking Celebs Into Ads Without Their Permission

By Frank Landymore

There's a new addition to an ever-growing lineup of elite — and deeply unsettling — celeb deepfakes: "Unreal Keanu Reeves."
Artificial Intelligence

This Keanu Reeves Deepfake Is Giving Us Shivers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bruce Willis apparently isn't going to be deepfaked into movies after all, according to a representative who denied claims that circulated last week.
Future Society

Bruce Willis Denies Claims He Sold Rights to Be Deepfaked into New Movies

By Noor Al-Sibai

The iconic Hollywood star retired earlier this year due to his tragic diagnosis with aphasia, but deepfakes mean we might still see more from him.
Future Society

Bruce Willis Signs Deal to Get Deepfaked Into Future Movies

By Frank Landymore

Although James Earl Jones has stepped away from his most iconic role, the legendary "Star Wars" actor's incredible baritone lives on thank to AI.
Artificial Intelligence

James Earl Jones Now Letting Darth Vader Be Voiced by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Binance CCO Patrick Hillman claims cybercriminals have been using a deepfake to take meetings with — and money from — a number of eager crypto projects.
Cryptocurrency

Scammers Deepfake Crypto Exec to Steal Money From People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers working at Samsung AI Center unveil "neural head avatar technology" that turns still photos into eerily lifelike animated faces.
Artificial Intelligence

Eerie Deepfake Tech Turns Random Guy Into Angelina Jolie

By Frank Landymore

Deepfakes are a growing threat, and detecting them is only getting harder. A new study says our subconscious is surprisingly effective at detecting them.
Brain

Scientists Jack Into Subjects’ Brains, Find That They Can Identify Deepfakes Subconsciously

By Frank Landymore

English TV presenter and record executive Simon Cowell was shocked to find a performer with his own face singing a tune on "America's Got Talent."
Artificial Intelligence

Simon Cowell Shocked by Deepfake Copy of Himself

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is itching to meet his Chinese doppelgänger — that is, if the man actually looks like that. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Wants to Meet His Chinese Doppelgänger

By Noor Al-Sibai

As if the possibility that AI might already be conscious wasn’t creepy enough, researchers have announced that AI-generated faces have become so sophisticated that people think they’re more trustworthy than actual humans.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Warn That New AI-Generated Faces Are Seen as More Trustworthy Than Real Ones

By Tony Ho Tran

Hour One is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses real people’s likenesses to create AI-generated “characters” for marketing and educational videos.
Artificial Intelligence

Company Wants to Make Deepfake Advertising Clones of Your Face

By Tony Ho Tran

Legendary production company Lucasfilm has hired a YouTuber who impressed them with stunning, photorealistic deepfakes of "Stars Wars" franchise characters.
Future Society

Lucasfilm Hires Random Guy Who Made Amazing Luke Skywalker Deepfake

By Victor Tangermann

A new documentary about the life of the legendary TV personality Anthony Bourdain, who passed away in 2018, includes AI recreations of his voice.
Artificial Intelligence

New Anthony Bourdain Documentary Used AI to Recreate His Voice

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities suspect that Kremlin operatives have used the deepfakes in order to gain information against Alexei Navalny's opposition movement.
Artificial Intelligence

Russia Accused of Using Deepfakes to Imitate Political Rivals

By Tony Ho Tran

Videos uploaded by an account called DeepTomCruise shocked users on the video sharing platform with its uncanny clips of a Tom Cruise playing golf.
Artificial Intelligence

Uncanny Deepfake Tom Cruise Fools People on TikTok

By Victor Tangermann

Ad studios are relying on deepfake tech rather than live actors for corporate videos due to coronavirus lockdown measures and health risks.
Artificial Intelligence

This Company Is Making Corporate Training Videos Using Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

According to digital forensics expert Hany Farid, the pandemic and BLM movement are even higher priorities for disinformation campaigns than the election.
Future Society

Expert: Online Disinfo Now Targeting COVID-19, Black Lives Matter

By Dan Robitzski

An impressive new deepfake inserts Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and SpaceX founder Elon Musk into the 1965 pilot episode of storied sci-fi series "Star Trek."
Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Deepfake Shows Jeff Bezos As Veiny-Headed “Star Trek” Alien

By Jon Christian

Facebook Bans All Deepfakes
Future Society

Facebook Bans All Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

A new law in China will make it illegal to create or share deepfakes without properly disclosing that they're not real videos.
Artificial Intelligence

China Makes Deepfakes Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

New deepfake-creating AI can make someone look and sound like Joe Rogan. While it's not perfect, it paints a troubling picture of the future.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Makes You Look and Sound Exactly Like Joe Rogan

By Dan Robitzski

In this deepfake, former U.S. president Barack Obama takes over for Chadwick Boseman as the Marvel superhero Black Panther.
Future Society

Someone Deepfaked Barack Obama Into “Black Panther”

By Victor Tangermann

California has banned the creation of political deepfakes — clips manipulated to make it look like a politician said or did something they didn't.
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Makes It Illegal to Distribute Political Deepfakes

By Kristin Houser

Porn deepfakes featuring actresses and musicians from the entertainment industry account for the vast majority of the manipulated videos currently online.
Artificial Intelligence

Study: Porn Accounts for 96 Percent of Deepfakes Online

By Kristin Houser

A YouTuber deepfaked Bob Odenkirk in a scene of "Breaking Bad" with the face of president Donald Trump to explain money laundering.
Future Society

Someone Deepfaked Trump Into “Breaking Bad” and It’s Horrifying

By Victor Tangermann

A deepfake video uploaded to YouTube explores what it would have looked like if Will Smith had accepted to take on the role of Neo in "The Matrix."
Future Society

Watch a Deepfake That Casts Will Smith as Neo In “The Matrix”

By Victor Tangermann

Using a deepfake imitating the voice of its parent company's CEO, a scammer convinced an energy executive to transfer $243,000 to a third-party account.
Artificial Intelligence

A Scammer Reportedly Used a Deepfake to Steal $243,000

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon's AI intelligence chief sees deepfake technology as a serious threat to democracy. He called on the government to develop better safeguards.
Artificial Intelligence

Pentagon’s AI Director Calls for Stronger Deepfake Protections

By Dan Robitzski

A new system makes it easier than ever for people to generate believable deepfakes. The AI tool doesn't require training and can swap faces in real-time.
Artificial Intelligence

New System Makes It Troublingly Easy to Create Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

To help us detect deepfakes, researchers are training mice to listen for the kinds of speech irregularities that can crop up in faked audio.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say Mice Could Detect Deepfakes. Seriously.

By Kristin Houser

Neither the government nor private tech companies have taken steps to protect the 2020 presidential election from being manipulated.
Hacking

Congressman: The 2020 Election Is Not Safe From Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Someone used machine learning to superimpose the face of Jim Carrey onto Jack Nicholson's character in Stanley Kubrick's iconic 1980 film "The Shining."
Artificial Intelligence

Oh No: Someone Deepfaked Jim Carrey Into “The Shining”

By Jon Christian

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.
Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

By Dan Robitzski

The Associated Press found that a LinkedIn profile for a "Katie Jones" was a made up cover likely belonging to a spy, and the profile photo was a deepfake.
Artificial Intelligence

A Spy Used a Deepfake Photo to Infiltrate LinkedIn Networks

By Dan Robitzski