AI for President: How South Korean president's campaign used deepfakes
Deepfakes

AI for President: How South Korean president's campaign used deepfakes

A deepfake of South Korea’s new president helped propel him into office. Yoon Suk-yeol, who won the country’s March 9 election, campaigned using videos that featured an AI-generated likeness of himself answering voters’ questions.

March 16, 20221 min read
Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.
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Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.

Legislators worldwide wrote new laws — some proposed, some enacted — to rein in societal impacts of automation.What happened: Authorities at all levels ratcheted up regulatory pressure as

December 22, 20212 min read
Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.
Deepfakes

Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.

Legislators worldwide wrote new laws — some proposed, some enacted — to rein in societal impacts of automation.What happened: Authorities at all levels ratcheted up regulatory pressure as

December 22, 20212 min read
AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames
Deepfakes

AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames

The process known as image-to-image style transfer — mapping, say, the character of a painting’s brushstrokes onto a photo — can render inconsistent results. When they apply the styles of different artists to the same target

September 22, 20213 min read
AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames
Deepfakes

AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames

The process known as image-to-image style transfer — mapping, say, the character of a painting’s brushstrokes onto a photo — can render inconsistent results. When they apply the styles of different artists to the same target

September 22, 20213 min read
On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.

The UK’s electronic surveillance agency published its plan to use AI. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) outlined its intention to use machine learning to combat security threats, human trafficking, and disinformation — and to do so ethically — in a new report.

March 31, 20211 min read
On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.
Deepfakes

On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.

The UK’s electronic surveillance agency published its plan to use AI. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) outlined its intention to use machine learning to combat security threats, human trafficking, and disinformation — and to do so ethically — in a new report.

March 31, 20211 min read
Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.
Deepfakes

Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.

Voice clones — the audio counterpart to deepfaked images — are poised to invade popular media and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs alike are using AI to emulate the voices of human actors, Wired reported.

March 17, 20212 min read
Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.
Deepfakes

Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.

Voice clones — the audio counterpart to deepfaked images — are poised to invade popular media and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs alike are using AI to emulate the voices of human actors, Wired reported.

March 17, 20212 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
Deepfakes

Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
Deepfakes

Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.
Deepfakes

Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.

The worldwide pandemic and a contentious U.S. election whipped up a storm of automated disinformation, and some big AI companies reaped the whirlwind.

December 23, 20202 min read
Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.
Deepfakes

Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.

The worldwide pandemic and a contentious U.S. election whipped up a storm of automated disinformation, and some big AI companies reaped the whirlwind.

December 23, 20202 min read
This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020
Deepfakes

This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020

While generative adversarial networks were infiltrating cultural, social, and scientific spheres, they quietly transformed the web into a bottomless well of synthetic images of . . . well, you name it.

December 23, 20201 min read
This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020
Deepfakes

This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020

While generative adversarial networks were infiltrating cultural, social, and scientific spheres, they quietly transformed the web into a bottomless well of synthetic images of . . . well, you name it.

December 23, 20201 min read

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