Breaking with others in the music industry, singer and former Elon Musk girlfriend Grimes has okayed the use of her voice in AI-generated songs, promising 50 percent royalties to anyone who achieves success with an AI-generated song using her voice.
Midjourney, which along with Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and Open AI’s DALL-E is one of the leading AI image generating services, has shut down its free edition as it attempts to clamp down on the spread of deepfake images.
Hundreds of sexual deepfake app advertisements featuring actresses Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson ran on Facebook and Instagram over the last few days. The Masters of the Universe apparently had no issue with advertising the technology used to make fake porn of celebrities — and increasingly, normal people too.
Hollywood star Keanu Reeves says deepfake digital face edits are “scary,” and confirmed that his film contracts ban digital edits to his acting. “It’s a system of control and manipulation,” the actor said of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Bruce Willis, who has stepped away from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia, recently became the first celebrity to sell the rights to his likeness to a deepfake firm, so that a “digital twin” of himself can be created for onscreen usage.
To achieve a PG-13 rating for its new low-budget thriller Fall, Lionsgate turned to deepfake technology to delete more than 30 uses of the f-word.
In a recent report, the FBI says that it has received multiple complaints of people using stolen information and AI-generated deepfake videos and voices to apply to remote tech jobs.
In a recent article, Wired magazine notes that as deepfake technology progresses in sophistication and ease of application, many mainstream businesses are now beginning to adopt the technology that up to this point has been infamously used to generate fake and pornographic videos of celebrities.
Warner Bros. is reportedly using an interactive deepfake program to allow users to insert themselves into the studio’s latest promo for the new movie Reminiscence. AI-generated deepfake videos are often good enough to fool the average person, making famous people appear to say things they never said, or putting them in unusual situations.
A new documentary from CNN Films about Anthony Bourdain is causing a ruckus after it was revealed the filmmaker used artificial intelligence technology to mimic the voice of the late celebrity chef, leading some to voice ethical concerns over the use of deepfakes.
Facebook has announced a new AI research project that can mimic and alter the text style in a photo just by looking at one example word. The technology is reminiscent of “deep fake” AI used to create fake videos.
Social media users in Japan were recently fooled by a 50-year-old man who posed as a young female biker online, gaining a large following by changing his appearance using photo filters.
A Pennsylvania mother is facing charges of cyber harassment of a child after she allegedly sent out doctored photos and videos her daughter’s teen rivals on the school cheerleading team to get them kicked off the squad.
A satirical deepfake message from the ‘Queen’ will be aired on Christmas by the British broadcaster Channel 4, prompting outrage and condemnation. The deepfake video, which was voiced by actress Debra Stephenson, is ostensibly aimed at highlighting the spread of
A “deepfake” video of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman featuring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci has gone viral on YouTube, winning praise from filmmakers and technology enthusiasts for its de-aging work that some believe is superior to the visual effects in the original Netflix movie.
LONDON (AP) — Facebook says it is banning “deepfake” videos, the false but realistic clips created with artificial intelligence and sophisticated tools, as it steps up efforts to fight online manipulation.
A cyber-security firm says that criminals are able to steal millions by using “deepfaked” audio to fool financial controllers into transferring them money by making them believe they are speaking to the company’s CEO.
ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, a website created by an Uber software engineer, generates hyper-realistic portraits of people who don’t actually exist.
Hollywood starlet Scarlett Johansson has responded to the creation of realistic “deepfake” A.I.-generated porn videos featuring her face, claiming it is a “lost cause” to attempt to take action against such videos.
Artificial intelligence has been used to created hyper-realistic portrait photographs of men, women, and children of different races who never existed, prompting one author to declare the “end of photography as evidence.”
