#deepfake

#deepfake

The service integrates easily with messaging platforms like WhatsApp and WeChat and claims that users can tweak up to 50 settings-including the ability to adjust things like cheekbone size and eye position-to help mimic the face they are impersonating. But while Haotian is a robust and versatile platform, researchers and WIRED's own analysis have found that the service has been marketing to so-called "pig butchering" scammers and those running online fraud operations in Southeast Asia.

In September, OpenAI launched a way for users to generate a digital likeness of themselves they could use to create personalized deepfake videos. This is one of the core features in Sora, OpenAI's app for sharing AI videos inside a TikTok-style feed. The self-deepfaking feature was called "cameo," and with that standout feature, Sora quickly rose to the top of Apple's iOS download charts.

When Cara Hunter, the Irish politician, looks back on the moment she found out she had been deepfaked, she says it is like watching a horror movie. The setting is her grandmother's rural home in the west of Tyrone on her 90th birthday, April 2022. Everyone was there, she says. I was sitting with all my closest family members and family friends when I got a notification through Facebook Messenger.

When then-President Bill Clinton and real estate mogul Donald Trump crossed paths at the 2000 U.S. Open in New York, White House photographer William Vasta snapped a picture as the men smiled widely side-by-side in a half embrace. He caught them in mid-motion, with Trump's right arm extended toward Clinton, as if he were coming in for a full hug or finishing a handshake.

"No, I don't know him," one disgruntled father messaged their son in one TikTok video that got millions of views. "What does he want?" "He said you guys went to school together, I invited him in," the son replied, posting an AI-edited image of a man sitting on presumably the family's couch. "JOE PICK UP THE PHONE," the alarmed parent replied. "I DON'T KNOW HIM!!!!!"

I was completely shocked," Shali said.

Over the weekend on his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump shared (then quickly deleted) a seemingly AI-generated video that included a deep-fake version of himself promoting a nonexistent product related to the broader QAnon conspiracy theory. The video, which purported itself to be a Fox News segment hosted by Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump, featured a product called a "MedBed" - fictional health care technology that supposedly heals the ailments of any individual who lays in it.

Almost exactly a year ago, it announced a bold partnership with the AI startup Runway to develop a new model capable of generating "cinematic video" exclusively for Lionsgate to use. In return, the studio gave the firm unrestricted access to its treasure trove of movies - which include everything from the "Hunger Games" films to "American Psycho" - to train the AI model.

"My erections became weaker and weaker until they stopped altogether. No desire, no confidence, no control. I was too embarrassed to even talk to my wife about it."

After her father's arrest, one daughter testified he asked her to create a "deepfake" of her late mom claiming she urged him to order poisons for suicide.

Despite a false announcement claiming Pride Month is cancelled, Trump has not actively tried to prevent its celebration, even amid ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

The Take It Down Act makes it illegal to publish or threaten to publish intimate images without consent, addressing real and AI-generated imagery.

MrDeepFakes, the notorious AI-generated pornography site, has permanently shut down due to the loss of a critical service provider, marking an end to its controversial operations.