Deep fakes: How artificially generated images give themselves away
Artificial intelligences are able to create images that humans cannot distinguish from photographs. Credit: Michael Schwettmann
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AI makes it harder to spot deep fakes than ever before, but awareness is key, says expert
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As artificial intelligence programs continue to develop and access is easier than ever, it's making it…
AI-Generated Voice Deep Fakes Aren’t Scary Good—Yet
Amid the generative-artificial-intelligence frenzy of the last few months, security researchers have been revisiting the concern that AI-generated voices, or voice deepfakes, have gotten convincing enough and easy enough to produce that…
Microsoft’s Vall-E could help you create audio-based deep fakes | Digit
There’s no doubt about the fact that we’re all headed towards a world run by AI at an alarmingly rapid pace. ChatGPT has already opened our eyes to what machine learning can do (its capabilities were described as an early glimpse of…
Book Author Fakes Suicide And Returns Two Years Later
How's this for a plot twist? In 2020, romance book author Susan Meachen's daughter announced on Facebook that her mom had committed suicide. Meachen was much admired in the indie romance book community, and the thoughts and…
Text-to-image AI: Powerful, easy-to-use technology for making art—and fakes
A synthetic image generated by mimicking real faces, left, and a synthetic face generated from the text prompt ‘a photo of a 50-year man with short black hair,’ right.…
Meet The Game Verifiers Guiding Retro Collectors Through A World of Fakes
Last year, Reddit user tosamyng had a problem. After seeing a post on a game collecting subreddit with several convincing fakes of popular Pokemon games, they began to wonder if their Pokemon collection was riddled with…
Charlie Dean fakes run-out in first game after Lord’s ODI controversy
Charlie Dean showed that she has moved on form the run-out controversy that took place in Lord's…
California woman fakes cancer, forges notes to avoid prison
SAN DIEGO (AP) — One note submitted to the federal judge sentencing a 38-year-old California woman for embezzlement claimed that a biopsy had revealed “cancerous cells” in her uterus. Another indicated that she was…
Metal Gear Speedrunner Fakes World Record At GDQ, Banned For Life
In this year’s Summer Games Done Quick, one of the two major yearly speedrunning events hosted by GDQ, the world record was broken for the Blade Wolf DLC of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. A user by the name of Mekazarium, performed the…