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The move of the government comes after some celebrities are learnt to have reported their faces being manipulated onto another video. (Representional Image: By arrangement)

Centre to Form Policies, Tackle Deepfake Issue

Firms reportedly agree on the need for actionable work in areas such as detection, prevention and increasing awareness

24 Nov 2023 2:23 AM

Govt to summon platforms to discuss deepfake issue

Recently, several 'deepfake' videos targeting leading actors went viral, sparking public outrage

19 Nov 2023 1:42 AM

Twitter had introduced labels on March 5 for tweets with manipulated content or manually edited as well as deepfake videos created using AI tools. (Photo | AFP)

Twitter puts ‘manipulated’ label on Trump’s retweet of clipped Biden video

It showed a clipped portion of the Democratic presidential candidate's speech to make it seem like he said, “We can only re-elect Trump.”

10 Mar 2020 4:55 PM

Deepfake is a growing threat in the age of online bullying and harassment.

Social media biggie snaps up deepfake startup

Snap used AI Factory's tech to build the newly released Cameos feature.

06 Jan 2020 7:51 AM

The threats also include generation of deepfakes to bypass facial recognition, ransomware attacks to morph extortion campaigns, and cloud-native threats as a result of weak API. (Photo: University of California)

McAfee predicts 'Deepfakes' as major cyber threat in 2020

Threat actors are now leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to produce even more convincing deepfakes.

07 Dec 2019 12:00 PM

Descript, the company behind Overdub, has launched a private beta test for the app that uses audio samples of a person's voice to generate new words or phrases, Fast Company reports.

This app lets you deepfake your voice for podcasting

The system is resistant to abuse as it needs one to speak random sentences which must match the transcript to process them

19 Sep 2019 8:54 AM

Millions of dollars have been stolen in these attacks. (Representional Image)

‘Deepfakes’ disguised as CEOs are stealing millions from companies

Audio clip of someone such as Elon Musk can be used to steal millions from companies.

20 Jul 2019 11:06 AM

The DeepNude app will no more be given out on sale and later instalments of the app will not be released.

Controversial deepfake app DeepNude turned photos of women into nudes

The app rose quickly and fell even faster.

28 Jun 2019 9:43 AM

Meanwhile, as deepfake technology progresses, concerns about its potential misuse also heightens. (Photo: AFP)

The future is already here; Deepfake portraits can now sing Beyonce's Halo

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin singing Beyonce classic 'Halo', using a single picture and an audio file.

21 Jun 2019 9:55 AM

The neural network algorithm codes a facial image from scratch every time you hit refresh. (Photo: Pixabay)

This website is your every deepfake face nightmare come true

The website has generated the faces using a neural network algorithm.

18 Feb 2019 11:18 AM

Scarlett Johansson says fighting deepfake porn is fruitless, lost cause

This comes after a harasser posted a deepfake porn video of Johansson which has racked up over 1.5 million views.

02 Jan 2019 6:30 PM

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