jan24
In an age where deepfakes and AI-generated content are increasingly blurring the lines of reality, camera giants Nikon, Sony, and Canon have announced groundbreaking technology to combat the proliferation of sophisticated fakes. With the digital world experiencing an onslaught of deepfake scandals involving celebrities, politicians, even common people, these companies are stepping in with solutions that promise to maintain the integrity of digital imagery.
Digital Signatures: The New Frontier in Image Authentication
Nikon is leading the charge by introducing mirrorless cameras equipped with authentication technology tailored for photojournalists and other professionals. These cameras will produce images with tamper-resistant digital signatures, detailing crucial information like date, time, location, and the photographer’s identity. This move is a significant step in ensuring the credibility of professional photography in an era increasingly dominated by fake content.
https://www.news9live.com/technology/canon-nikon-sony-fight-ai-deepfakes-new-tech-2393242
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https://factcheckhub.com/nikon-sony-and-canon-to-fight-deepfakes-with-latest-camera-technology/
nov23
Developers of artificial intelligence platforms could soon release technology that allows users to make images and videos that would be nearly indistinguishable from reality.
Companies such as OpenAI, the developer behind the popular ChatGPT platform, and other AI companies are nearing the release of tools that will allow the creation of widespread and realistic fake videos as early as next year, according to a report from Axios.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/deepfakes-indistinguishable-reality-2024-report-warns
Some viral TikTok videos may soon show a new type of label: that it’s made by AI.
The ByteDance-owned app is developing a tool for content creators to disclose they used generative artificial intelligence in making their videos, according to a person with direct knowledge of the efforts. The move comes as people increasingly turn to AI-generated videos for creative expression, which has sparked copyright battles as well as concerns about misinformation.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-is-developing-ai-generated-video-disclosures-as-deepfakes-rise
Deepfakes mean we can’t trust videos and voices already | Metaphysic CEO at TED
jan23
About a third of the way into a New York Times piece about the prospects for regulating "deepfake" technology, a striking statement appears:
Some experts predict that as much as 90 percent of online content could be synthetically generated within a few years.
It's striking because it's frustrating: The sentence grabs your attention with a huge number (90 percent!), but it doesn't convey what the number means. For one thing, there's that weasel-phrase "as much as"—just how much wiggle room is that masking? And what counts as "online content"? The passages before and after this line are explicitly about deepfakes, but strictly speaking even bot spam is "synthetically generated." What precisely are we talking about here?
https://reason.com/2023/01/27/that-time-we-tried-to-make-sense-of-a-statistic-in-a-new-york-times-story-on-deepfakes/
jan23
Deepfakes: faces created by AI now look more real than genuine photos
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/deepfakes-faces-created-ai-now-122623469.html
Deep Fakes may replicate digital humans this year
NVIDIA Broadcast can now deepfake your eyes
AI image generation tech can now create life-wrecking deepfakes with ease
AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.
yesterday the U.S. Patent Office granted Apple a patent for just that: Deepfake creations or Synthetic creations. The patent is titled "Face Image Generation with Pose and Expression Control." Of course, it's not as sophisticated as the TV series or the Obama presentation at present, but it definitely illustrates how Apple thinks this could be a future photos manipulation feature and/or app for still photos and videos. In fact, Apple already has the technology in place. More on that later.
Apple's newly granted patent notes that their invention covers systems and methods that relate to the creation of synthetic images of human faces based on a reference image. The synthetic images can incorporate changes in facial expression and pose.
Uma empresa de inteligência artificial usou técnicas de deepfake para permitir que "Steve Jobs" (ou uma versão digital dele) concedesse uma entrevista a um podcast. O objetivo da iniciativa foi revelar como é possível criar sons tão realísticos quanto as fotos e vídeos criados com as ferramentas modernas.
O podcast foi criado pela Play.ht, empresa especializada na criação de ferramentas de geração de texto para voz com IA. O material fictício traz o falecido fundador da Apple, Steve Jobs, sendo entrevistado pelo polêmico influenciador Joe Rogan — que teve110 episódios do podcast The Joe Rogan Experience excluídos recentemente, acusado de disseminar informações negacionistas sobre a pandemia de covid-19.
A voz de Jobs ainda parece meio estranha em alguns momentos, mas a IA consegue recriar as nuances da fala, o timbre e até o jeito de falar do ex-CEO da Maçã. A fala de Joe Rogan é mais realista, mas há muito mais materiais disponíveis atualmente do que de uma pessoa falecida há 11 anos.
Roteiro também foi criado por IA
Phishing works so well crims won't bother with deepfakes, says Sophos chap
People reveal passwords if you ask nicely, so AI panic is overblown
out22
Creating Full Body Deepfakes by Combining Multiple NeRFs
ago22
A cybersecurity expert is puzzled by recent actions taken by a group of researchers working at the Samsung AI Centre in Moscow, saying their work might inevitably end up doing more harm than good.
In a research paper, they wrote that they have invented something called Mega Portraits, which is short for megapixel portraits, based on a concept called neural head avatars, which, they said, “offer a new fascinating way of creating virtual head models. They bypass the complexity of realistic physics-based modeling of human avatars by learning the shape and appearance directly from the videos of talking people.”
Lou Steinberg, the founder of CTM Insights, a New York City-based cybersecurity research lab and incubator, said intentionally edited images, also known as deepfakes, are a growing and troubling issue with possibilities that include editing a picture of someone to cause reputational/brand damage, often with AI tools that are becoming more capable.
https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/samsungs-handling-of-deepfakes-research-questioned/499236
jul22
Researchers Found A Way To Animate High Resolution Deepfakes From A Single Photo, And It's Unsettling
https://petapixel.com/2022/07/22/megaportraits-high-res-deepfakes-created-from-a-single-photo/
https://digg.com/video/high-resolution-deepfakes-from-a-single-photo-and-its-unsettling
jul22
Researchers from Samsung Labs have developed a way to create high-resolution avatars, or deepfakes, from a single still frame photo or even a painting.
https://petapixel.com/2022/07/22/megaportraits-high-res-deepfakes-created-from-a-single-photo/
jun22
Parked near the LeRoy King Carousel next to the Moscone Center, the RV offered three interactive experiences. The first involved a voice analyzer that was programmed to ascertain the gender, language and approximate age of any speaker. The second let visitors test out a voice authentication API, and the third was an audio deepfake demonstration through which guests type out sentences and hear them read aloud by various celebrities and popular figures.
https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/rsac/speaks-for-itself-demo-reveals-power-of-voice-authentication-and-perils-of-deepfakes
