Tech & Society
Deepfakes Go Mainstream: Why 2019 was a big year for deepfakes
Society awakened to the delight, threat, and sheer weirdness of realistic images and other media dreamed up by computers.
Deepfakes
Tech & Society
Fighting Fakes: China introduces a ban on deepfakes.
China announced a ban on fake news, targeting deepfakes in particular. The Cyberspace Administration of China issued new rules restricting online audio and video, especially content created using AI.
Tech & Society
Deepfakes Wreak Havoc
Will AI fakery erode public trust in the key social institutions? Generative models will flood media outlets with convincing but false photos, videos, ads, and news stories. The ensuing crisis of authority will lead to widespread distrust in everything from the financial system to democracy itself.
Machine Learning Research
Anonymous Faces
A number of countries restrict commercial use of personal data without consent unless they’re fully anonymized. A new paper proposes a way to anonymize images of faces, purportedly without degrading their usefulness in applications that rely on face recognition.
Tech & Society
Facing Down Deepfakes
Deepfakes threaten to undermine law and order, perhaps democracy itself. A coalition of tech companies, nonprofits, and academics joined forces to counter potential adverse impacts.
Machine Learning Research
Style Upgrade
Image-to-image translation, in which stylistic features from one image are imposed on the content of another to create a new picture, traditionally has been limited to translating either shapes or textures. A new network translates both.