Culture
Deepfakes Against Profanity: Film Makers of Fall Used AI to Remove F-Words
The filmmakers used technology from Flawless AI to clean up the language, enabling the film to earn a rating that welcomes younger viewers.
Deepfakes
Tech & Society
Actors Act Against AI: UK Actors Union Launches Campaign Against AI
Performing artists are taking action to protect their earning power against scene-stealing avatars. Equity, a union of UK performing artists, launched a campaign to pressure the government to prohibit unauthorized use of a performer’s AI-generated likeness.
Tech & Society
AI for President: How South Korean president's campaign used deepfakes
A deepfake of South Korea’s new president helped propel him into office. Yoon Suk-yeol, who won the country’s March 9 election, campaigned using videos that featured an AI-generated likeness of himself answering voters’ questions.
Tech & Society
Governments Lay Down the Law: Governments around the world increasingly regulate AI.
Legislators worldwide wrote new laws — some proposed, some enacted — to rein in societal impacts of automation.What happened: Authorities at all levels ratcheted up regulatory pressure as
Machine Learning Research
AI With a Sense of Style: Style Transfer Method Produces Consistent Output in Successive Video Frames
The process known as image-to-image style transfer — mapping, say, the character of a painting’s brushstrokes onto a photo — can render inconsistent results. When they apply the styles of different artists to the same target
Tech & Society
On Her Majesty’s Secret Algorithm: How the UKs GCHQ will use AI to augment intelligence ops.
The UK’s electronic surveillance agency published its plan to use AI. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) outlined its intention to use machine learning to combat security threats, human trafficking, and disinformation — and to do so ethically — in a new report.
Tech & Society
Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.
Voice clones — the audio counterpart to deepfaked images — are poised to invade popular media and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs alike are using AI to emulate the voices of human actors, Wired reported.
Tech & Society
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.
Tech & Society
Algorithms Against Disinformation: How Facebook, Twitter, and more fought disinfo in 2020.
The worldwide pandemic and a contentious U.S. election whipped up a storm of automated disinformation, and some big AI companies reaped the whirlwind.
Tech & Society
This Snowman Does Not Exist: The rise of deepfakes in 2020
While generative adversarial networks were infiltrating cultural, social, and scientific spheres, they quietly transformed the web into a bottomless well of synthetic images of . . . well, you name it.
Business
GAN Makes Pajamas Safe For Work: An AI app allows users to dress in digital costumes.
A new camera app uses a generative adversarial network to let users look like they’re dressed for success while they videoconference in their jammies. Xpression is an iPhone app that maps facial expressions onto till images in real time, allowing users to look clothed in digital costumes.
Machine Learning Research
Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.
The incessant rhythm of a heartbeat could be the key to distinguishing real videos from deepfakes. DeepRhythm detects deepfakes using an approach inspired by the science of measuring minute changes on the skin’s surface due to blood circulation.