Deepfakes: A Terror in the era of AI?

It is important to get information from official and trusted sources such as official government agencies, and credible news platforms. In most cases, a quick search online, using reliable news sources or fact-checking organisations such as Full Fact or PolitiFact, can help identify whether something is true or not. Besides hosting the podcast, Tod is president of engageQ digital, a social media engagement and moderation agency, and is author of several books, and spent 20+ years as a professional conference keynote speaker. It’s believed that the Telegram bot is powered by a version the DeepNude software.

They must then have labels attached to each data point before the model can learn from the data. This is at best an expensive and time-consuming process; at worst, the data one needs is simply impossible to get one’s hands on. FakeApp – so popular it even has a online “club” dedicated to helping users get started – is just one wave in a tide of new techniques which, with dizzying rapidity, are producing ever more realistic video deceits.

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We must have systems in place to protect them as we navigate this rapidly changing technological field. While not as innovative as it tries to seem, then, this is still a fun take on the increasing use of artificial intelligence in advertising. Most of the humour comes from the non-celebrity talent pasting their own personalities atop J-Lo’s visage, with the singer-slash-actress interpreting each in entertaining fashion. Jessica’s story is from The Checkup, her weekly biotech and health newsletter. Another way of telling when an image is AI-generated can be details in the background of the image. For example, a set of AI images went viral on Twitter depicting former president Donald Trump being arrested before his indictment, gathering almost five million views in just two days.

‘Artificial images of child sex abuse are a point of contention between the USA and Europe, because the US supreme court struck down an attempt by Congress to make all such images illegal,’ Prof Anderson told MailOnline. But just days later, Firehose – a site comprised solely of artificially generated pornographic images – was taken offline and the founder said that the “stigma” became too much. Other companies have also tried to ban deepfakes from their platforms, but keeping them off requires diligence. In the meantime, some AI models say they’re already curbing access to explicit images.

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Some, like Vibease above, are close to pornographic in their approach, focused upon arousal as the selling point. Others are more focused upon offering partners who live apart, maybe in different countries, a means to enjoy or explore their private sexual relations. What is common is the connectivity of smart devices over the Internet and the function of interactive control of those devices.

In 2018, as the President of the United States faces midterm elections which will determine who controls Congress, a new front has opened up in the war between truth and lies. And so what started as obvious, pornographic frauds for the titillation of audiences who knew they were looking at counterfeits, became a technique for blurring the lines between fiction and reality. Because, this being the internet, what their creators initially wanted them to do was have sex.

AI developments mean that, without delay, the making and taking of intimate images without consent should be made a criminal offence too, not possible within the scope of the Online Safety Bill. Generative AI allows people to create content like audio, text or video through simple commands, with recent breakthroughs like ChatGPT demonstrating an ability to generate human-like and hyper-realistic responses. In one instance, a manipulated video purporting genrative ai to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling on citizens to surrender to Russia was widely circulated on social media and even briefly relayed on a hacked Ukrainian news site. The video was revealed to be a deepfake that also featured unnatural eye movements. The rapid software development is such that audio and video deepfakes have also advanced at “lightning speed”, according to British specialist in AI and synthetic media Henry Ajder.

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Until then, we need a combination of investment and effort from tech companies to prevent and identify deepfakes, alongside those (hopefully future) tougher laws. Despite spending hours online every day, as a society we still tend to think of ‘online’ and ‘offline’ as two separate worlds – but they aren’t. I think about The Bridesmaid, wondering if she has any idea that somebody wanted to see her edited into pornographic scenes. Was it done to humiliate her, for blackmailing purposes, or for plain sexual gratification?

While we wait, the ramifications of video fakery are already becoming clear. So intense is it that every school shooting is dismissed by some pro-gun activists as an elaborate hoax, staged by what they call “crisis actors”, to discredit guns. “Through simulated conversation, you can use these chatbots to convince people to believe disinformation,” Matt Fredrikson, one of the study’s authors, told the Times. Jailbreaking ChatGPT – or any other generative AI tool like Google Bard – is a process that involves removing restrictions and limitations from the chatbot in order to have it perform functions beyond its safeguards.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which finds, flags, and removes child sex abuse images and videos from the web, was also concerned by the reports. It has the ability to create male, female and even transgender deepfake porn images. It’s a great way of generating AI Deepfake porn, plus it also features an advanced, photorealistic AI Porn Generator too. Twitter now deletes reported deepfakes and blocks any of their publishers. Actor Jordan Peele used a deepfake Barack Obama to warn of the dangers of deepfakes, highlighting how they can distort reality in ways that could undermine people’s faith in trusted media sources and incite toxic behaviour. And while the vast majority of deepfakes are of non-consensual porn not misinformation, some in the intelligence community have warned that foreign governments could spread deepfakes to disrupt or sway elections.

The core technologies underlying synthetic data and deepfakes are the same. Yet the use cases and potential real-world impacts are diametrically opposed. Take Photoshop – the software which allows still images to be tweaked and doctored. These days, many readers of glossy magazines are aware on some level that cover models might have been digitally enhanced in some way – thighs slimmed, perhaps, or blemishes airbrushed away.

In August, researchers at a computer graphics conference presented one method allowing users to control, with near total photo-realism, facial expressions on any given video target. Its developers called it Deep Video Portraits, and Theresa May was among the fakes they generated to prove their point. They must ensure that harmless videos, such as the Bill Hader/ Tom Cruise video below, do not get caught up in a deepfake net trawling for harmful political deepfakes.

• In addition, minor amendments have been tabled to tweak the meaning of the word ‘broadcast’ to cater for the BBC’s internet-enabled transmissions.
• The researchers shared the results of their study with OpenAI, Google and Anthropic before going public.
• Naturally, there are myriad potential commercial uses of the technology.
• However, the success rate for Anthropic’s Claude was much lower, at only 2.1%.

Deepfakes often involve the use of editing software to create fake images of a person without their consent and can be pornographic in nature. Figures shared by the government show that this type of image has been increasing in recent years with a website that virtually strips women naked receiving 38 million hits in the first eight months of 2021. In just a few short years technology has advanced such that no longer are huge data inputs required. Today, one photograph (perhaps easily acquired from a social media account) suffices for a credible deepfake.

However, the success rate for Anthropic’s Claude was much lower, at only 2.1%. Despite this low success rate, the scientists noted the automated adversarial attacks were still able to induce behavior that was not previously generated by the AI models. In a study published on July 27, researchers investigated the vulnerability of large language models (LLMs) to adversarial attacks created by computer programs – unlike the so-called ‘jailbreaks’ that are done manually by humans against LLMs. Companies that built the popular generative AI tools, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have emphasized the safety of their creations.