deepfake

The video, which appeared on the online forum Reddit, was what’s known as a “deepfake” — an ultrarealistic fake video made with artificial intelligence software.

Here Come the Fake Videos, Too By 2018

“Deepfake” porn – producing fake pornographic images based on pictures of real people – is the latest tech-enabled sexual abuse to attract demands for a ban .

Casual sexism creates victims. We should acknowledge that and police it | Libby Brooks Libby Brooks 2018

The word deepfake – now used as a catch-all term to describe any digitally manipulated image or video that can look convincingly real – was originally coined to refer to pornography, points out Henry Ajder, a deepfakes and AI expert who has been researching this for years, and has advised the UK government on legislation.

Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: ‘It’s men telling a powerful woman to get back in her box’ Emine Saner 2024

The low-tech “cheapfake” images differ from recent incidents in schools where students used artificial intelligence apps to generate real-looking, digitally altered images known as “deepfakes.”

Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School By 2024

A deepfake refers to a specific kind of synthetic media where a person in an image or video is swapped with another person's likeness.The term “deepfake” was first coined in late 2017 by a Reddit user of the same name. This user created a space on the online news and aggregation site, where they shared pornographic videos that used open source face-swapping technology.The term has since expanded to include “synthetic media applications” that existed before the Reddit page and new creations like StyleGAN — “realistic-looking still images of people that don’t exist,” said Henry Ajder, head of threat intelligence at deepfake detection company Deeptrace.

Deepfakes, explained | MIT Sloan Meredith Somers 2024