Ranvir Singh is unimpressed after host’s face is used in Spice Girls deepfake video

‘What have you done to my skin colour?’ Ranvir Singh is unimpressed after Good Morning Britain host’s face is used in Spice Girls deepfake video By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 08:56 GMT, 24 March 2021 | Updated: 10:27 GMT, 24 March 2021 Ranvir Singh was left speechless on Wednesday’s edition of Good Morning Britain … Read more

‘Deepfake’ Tom Cruise takes over TikTok with some 11 million views but raises alarms with experts

Tom Cruise has gone viral on the popular video-sharing app TikTok, but the clips featuring the ‘Mission Impossible’ star are deepfakes that experts are calling the ‘most alarmingly lifelike examples’ of the technology. An account appeared on the app last week, dubbed ‘deeptomcruise,’ which shows a number of videos depicting Cruise doing a magic trick, … Read more

Donald Trump is mocked over election loss in deepfake video by creators of South Park

The creators of South Park have mocked Donald Trump’s reaction to his election loss in a new festive ‘deepfake’ video that depicts him descending into meltdown as he reads out a Christmas story for kids. Brought to life by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the amusing skit shows Trump sulking as he reads a reindeer … Read more

AI Jukebox creates ‘deepfake’ songs, imitating dead pop stars

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to create new ‘deepfake’ pop songs that sound like they’re being performed by dead musicians, including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, David Bowie and Michael Jackson. Jukebox, created by California-based company OpenAI, is a neural network that generates eerie approximates of pop songs in the style of multiple artists. The neural network … Read more

Russian state-owned TV network creates disturbing deepfake video with Donald Trump

A state-controlled TV network in Russia created a parody video that portrays Donald Trump as Vladimir Putin‘s pawn using quotes from the US president himself.   Russia Today released its spoofy ad, entitled ‘Trump is here to make RT Great Again! (or is he?!)’ on Tuesday.  The video set in November 2020 imagines a world where … Read more

Microsoft unveils new tools to identify deepfake videos

Microsoft has launched a new tool that can identify ‘deepfake’ videos that were designed to present false information and a quiz to help people spot them. There were at least 96 ‘foreign influenced’ deep fake campaigns on social media targeting people in 30 countries between 2013 and 2019, according to Microsoft. Deepfakes, also known as … Read more

Deepfake video shows President Richard Nixon announcing the failure of the 1969 moon landing

AI experts release eerie deepfake video of Richard Nixon ‘announcing the failure of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing’ to highlight the dangers of doctored footage MIT created the deepfake video to show the dangers the technology creates  Speech prepared for Nixon was read by an actor and morphed onto old footage  AI technology adapted … Read more

Disney demonstrates deepfake technology that can swap people’s faces in high-resolution

Disney demonstrates deepfake technology that can swap people’s faces in high-resolution Disney’s deepfake technology pumps out videos at high-resolution The added megapixels help it create deepfakes at 1024 x 1024  It still has limitations before being used commercially  By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 23:49 BST, 30 June 2020 | Updated: 23:50 BST, 30 June 2020 … Read more

Deepfake contest by Facebook shows top algorithm was only able to spot a fake video with 65% success

Revealed: deepfake contest run by Facebook shows that top algorithm was only able to spot a doctored video 65% of the time A contest found the best algorithm had a 65 percent success rate The contest had 2,000 participants with 35,000 algorithms tested  Facebook will release the winner as an open-source tech for researchers  It will … Read more

Kristen Bell was ‘shocked’ to learn her face had been used in a pornographic deepfake video

Kristen Bell was ‘shocked’ to learn her face had been used in a pornographic deepfake video: ‘I’m being exploited’ By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 02:22 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 02:22 BST, 11 June 2020 Kristen Bell is opening up about falling victim to a pornographic ‘deepfake,’ which is when a person in … Read more