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Replace Your Face With an A.I. Twin to Trick Facial Recognition
10 min · · Try the Anonymizer tool to create a fake face that looks like you · Shared by 94, including Thomas Pleil, Chris Messina, Matthias Lampe, Dirk Spannaus, Bas Grasmayer, Tom D'Amico
The New York Times
Facebook Discovers Fakes That Show Evolution of Disinformation
5 min · · Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an “eerie, tech-enabled future of disinformation.” · Shared by 92, including Lluís Codina, Korben, Antonio Vieira Santos, Thomas Knüwer, Katja Evertz, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Steve Silberman, Christopher Lauer™, Armin Wolf, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Oliver Reichenstein, Matteo Furia, Renee DiResta, Chris Messina, Faik Ersoy
The Verge
AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say
4 min · · Editing the words right out of your mouth · Shared by 83, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Fabricio Teixeira, Esther Schindler, t0mekk, Thomas Power, Klaus Eck, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Chris Messina, Yvette Dubel
Gizmodo
Disney's Developed Movie-Quality Face-Swapping Technology That Promises to Change Filmmaking
2 min · · In a few short years, neural-network-powered automated face swaps have gone from being mildly convincing to eerily believable. But through new research from Disney, neural face-swapping is poised to… · Shared by 78, including Bob E. Hayes, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Marius Bleuer, Chris Messina
WIRED
Facebook Can Make VR Avatars Look—and Move—Exactly Like You
8 min · · Shared by 78, including Pete Skomoroch, Chris Messina, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Mari Smith, Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️, Ryan Hoover, Builtvisible, Bjorn Larsen
Vox
TikTok’s catfish problem is worse than you think
5 min · · Several creators have been called out for faking their age and their race. · Shared by 74, including Neil Lee, Matt Navarra, Chris Messina, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com
VICE
Deepfake Porn Is Evolving to Give People Total Control Over Women's Bodies
5 min · · People are creating a new kind of nonconsensual pornography by combining deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever they want. · Shared by 72, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Alec Couros, Chris Messina, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, rohit, Dr. Walter Veit
WIRED
Covid Drives Real Businesses to Tap Deepfake Technology
2 min · · Coronavirus restrictions make it harder and more expensive to shoot videos. So some companies are turning to synthetic media instead. · Shared by 59, including Chris Messina, Lisha, Pete Skomoroch, Nicolas Babin, Backchannel, Fareed Mosavat, Marcus Borba, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Prof. Sally Eaves, Nige Roberts-Willson, Mike Tamir, PhD
TechCrunch
More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela
7 min · · Brud, the company behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela, is now worth at least $125 million thanks to a new round of financing the company is currently closing. Meanwhile, new venture-backed… · Shared by 58, including David Cohn, Chris Messina, Klaus Eck, Mark Kaigwa, Johannes Lenz, Liliane Ferrari ™, Ryan Hoover, ❤️ Umair
WIRED
You Are Already Having Sex With Robots
10 min · · Sex robots are here, and their AI-enabled pseudosexuality isn’t long behind. · Shared by 57, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Them, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., justin caouette, Howard Getson, Chris Messina
CNN
How a deepfake Tom Cruise on TikTok turned into a very real AI company
6 min · · Earlier this year, videos of Tom Cruise started popping up on TikTok of the actor doing some surprisingly un-Tom-Cruise-like stuff: goofing around in an upscale men's clothing store; showing off a… · Shared by 54, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Esther Schindler, Stephan Spencer, Brooke B. Sellas, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Chris Messina, Matt Navarra
Benedict Evans
Face recognition, bad people and bad data
12+ min · · We worry about face recognition just as we worried about databases - we worry what happens if they contain bad data and we worry what bad people might do with them · Shared by 54, including Chris Messina, Toby Coppel, Florian Graillot, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
TechCrunch
Snapchat Cameo edits your face into videos
2 min · · Snapchat is preparing to launch a big new feature that uses your selfies to replace the faces of people in videos you can then share. It’s essentially a simplified way to Deepfake you into GIFs.… · Shared by 53, including Pete Skomoroch, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Messina, Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー, John Koetsier, 🚀 Perspective IX, Resh Sidhu, Socialbakers, Matt Navarra, Mari Smith, Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, John Rampton
TechCrunch
Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers
8 min · · Why 2020 will be a "watershed year" for the creator economy · Shared by 51, including Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Chris Isak, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Shawn Venasse, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Chris Messina
The Washington Post
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience
· Social media has been a quintessentially American journey rooted in ideas about creative expression and freedom of speech. But the rise of the Chinese video app TikTok could signal an end to Western dominance of the Internet’s megaphones — and an ideological change in what people see on the Web. · Shared by 51, including George M 🇪🇺, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Neeraj K Agrawal, John Koetsier, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Alec Couros, Gerrit Eicker, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
The Washington Post
Faked Pelosi videos, slowed to make her appear drunk, spread across social media
· Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, altered to make her sound as if she’s drunkenly slurring her words, are spreading rapidly across social media as Congress and the White House battle over efforts to gain access to Trump's financial records. · Shared by 49, including Armin Wolf, Christopher Lauer™, אטילה שומפלבי Attila Somfalvi, Brian Solis, Loughlin O'Nolan, Chris Messina