Dr. Joel Bervell, a physician known to his hundreds of thousands of followers on social media as the “Medical Mythbuster,” has built a reputation for debunking false health claims online. Earlier this year, some of those followers alerted him to a video on another account featuring a man who looked exactly like him. The face…
Hong Kong should step up victim protection by outlawing deepfake pornographic content, advocates and lawmakers have said, after a university student was accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate explicit images of his classmates. The Education Bureau weighed in on the case on Sunday, saying publicly funded universities had autonomy in how they managed…
For nearly a decade, Bree Smith was a familiar face in Nashville. But, in January, the mom and former TV meteorologist stopped appearing on the local CBS-affiliated station — a decision she made after months of fighting against deepfakes, which are simulated online images or videos that can seem realistic. In Smith’s case, an image…
Hong Kong authorities have told residents not to be fooled by an online video made with artificial intelligence (AI) that falsely shows city leader John Lee Ka-chiu endorsing a high-return investment scheme. A government spokesman on Wednesday warned the public about the bogus video circulating online that claimed the chief executive was urging residents “to…
Meta has removed over a dozen fraudulent, sexualized images of famous female actors and athletes after a CBS News investigation found a high prevalence of AI-manipulated deepfake images on the company’s Facebook platform. Dozens of fake, highly sexualized images of the actors Miranda Cosgrove, Jeanette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, Scarlett Johansson and former tennis star Maria…
Foreign spies could be using deepfake technology to threaten both individual and national security, China’s Ministry of State Security has warned. Deepfake tools, while finding application in general industries, could be exploited by espionage agencies as a new weapon for “cognitive warfare”, the ministry said in a statement on its social media account on Saturday….