A Telegram bot network is being used to create deepfake nudes

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Engadget

A security firm called Sensity says it recently discovered a network of deepfake bots on chat app Telegram creating computer-generated naked images of women on request. As of July 2020, the firm found that the bots have generated deepfakes of approxi...

Adobe Photoshop can now identify ‘shopped images

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Adobe has unveiled a new attribution tool for Photoshop that will help consumers better understand the authenticity of images while giving proper credit to creators. Part of Adobe’s open source Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), the prototype fea...

Microsoft will identify manipulated media with a confidence score

Posted on 01/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The pandemic and upcoming US presidential election have made misinformation even more dangerous than usual. So, as part of its Defending Democracy Program, Microsoft is rolling out new tools to combat misinformation, specifically deepfakes.The new Mi...

Reuters joins Facebook’s fact-checking program

Posted on 12/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Reuters, one of the world's biggest news agencies, is joining Facebook's third-party fact-checking program. First launched in 2016, the program has tried to curb the spread of disinformation on the social network with help from organizations like the...

TikTok-owner ByteDance reportedly built a deepfake maker

Posted on 03/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

TikTok parent company ByteDance has built a feature that could let users create their own deepfakes, TechCrunch reports. The feature, referred to as Face Swap, was spotted in code in both TikTok and the Chinese app Douyin. It asks users to scan their...

Facebook helped Reuters create an online course on identifying deepfakes

Posted on 17/12/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Reuters has released a new 45-minute online course designed to help give journalists the tools they need to spot and avoid sharing manipulated pictures, videos and audio clips. While deepfakes are obviously a major component of the material, there's...

Twitter reveals how it plans to address deepfakes

Posted on 11/11/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter said last month it was working on ways to better to handle deepfakes. It just released draft guidelines on how to address the problem and it's looking for the public to weigh in and help shape policies on what it describes as "synthetic and m...

Twitter vows to introduce new rules against deepfakes

Posted on 22/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter promises to introduce new policy to fight deepfakes, especially when they could "threaten someone's physical safety or lead to offline harm." The social network has announced that it's working on created rules to address what it calls "synthe...

These deepfake celebrity impressions are equally amazing and alarming

Posted on 11/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Actor Jim Meskimen partnered with deepfake artist Sham00k to make his celebrity impressions a little more realistic. Meskimen and Sham00k shared the results in a YouTube video, and honestly, they're pretty remarkable. While Meskimen did the voices, d...

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