deepfakes

Deepfakes are synthetic media in which a person's likeness or voice is replaced with someone else's using artificial intelligence, often to create realistic but false content.

Why it’s in the news: Deepfakes are in the news due to their increasing use in political campaigns, electoral interference, and financial fraud, prompting calls for global regulation.

Latest on deepfakes

• AI ‘deepfakes’ give US political attack ads a new twist
• Giorgia Meloni files to trademark her voice against AI deepfakes
• PM Modi calls for global framework to tackle cyber frauds, deepfakes, digital crimes
• Mesmo proibidos, deepfakes tomam conta das redes antes da eleição
• Deepfakes Are Becoming a Costly Reality for Businesses, Report Warns
• CISOs Must Update Incident Response Playbooks for Multimodal Deepfakes, Gartner Warns
• Brazil's Superior Electoral Court held hearings on Tuesday to define deepfakes ahead of the country's October 4 presidential election.
• The team will track the use of AI models for illegal activities including deepfakes, non-consensual intimate images, and hacking.
• can these international standards help?
• 84% of political deepfakes circulating in democracies go undetected until after they've been shared 100,000 times.
• Judges fighting cameras in courtrooms cite deepfakes
• From scams to deepfakes, AI use in Asia creates new cyberthreats

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