D is for Deepfake

Have you ever seen something truly uncanny? Your brain tells you what you're seeing is true, but something at the back of your mind niggles. Someone is trying to trick you... This week, Will and Alisha enter the warped reality of deepfakes. Is it just art, or is it a fundamental threat to the very fabric of our reality!? Lol. Let's find out!

Sources:

Articles - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake

 

What are deepfakes – and how can you spot them? (Ian Sample, The Guardian, 13 Jan 2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/13/what-are-deepfakes-and-how-can-you-spot-them

 

How Deepfakes Could Help Plant False Memories in Our Minds (Tristan Greene, The Next Web, March 2021)

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/03/23/how-deepfakes-could-help-implant-false-memories-in-our-minds/

 

Pennsylvania Woman Accused of Using Deepfake Technology to Harass Cheerleaders (Christina Morales, NY Times, March 2021)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/14/us/raffaela-spone-victory-vipers-deepfake.html

 

A Bucks County woman created ‘deepfake’ videos to harass rivals on her daughter’s cheerleading squad, DA says (Vinny Vella, The Inquirer, March 2021)

https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.html?outputType=amp

 

Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here (Emma Bowman, NPR, March 2021)

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/975849508/slick-tom-cruise-deepfakes-signal-that-near-flawless-forgeries-may-be-here

 

A Voice Deepfake Was Used To Scam A CEO Out Of $243,000 (Jesse Damiani, Forbes, Sep 2019)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessedamiani/2019/09/03/a-voice-deepfake-was-used-to-scam-a-ceo-out-of-243000/?sh=21e1f7e02241

 

How to spot deepfake videos — 15 signs to watch for (Alison Grace Johansen, Norton LifeLock, August 2019)

https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-how-to-spot-deepfakes.html

 

Mona Lisa Brought to Life with Deepfake AI (BBC News, 2019)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48395521

 

The Kim Jong-un and Putin deepfakes TV networks refused to air (Matt Binder, Mashable, October 2020) 

https://mashable.com/article/kim-jong-un-and-putin-deepfakes/

 

Non-Consensual Content Policy (Pornhub)

https://help.pornhub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041719433-Non-Consensual-Content-Policy

 

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Videos - 

Surprise From Heaven: Kanye West Surprises Kim Kardashian With Hologram From Dad On 40th Birthday (BTM Afrika, October 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mumSFH5zqnk&ab_channel=BTMAfrika

 

The Most Urgent Threat of Deepfakes isn’t Politics (Vox, June 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHCrf2-x6w&ab_channel=Vox

 

RealTalk: We Recreated Joe Rogan's Voice Using Artificial Intelligence (Dessa, 2019)

https://youtu.be/DWK_iYBl8cA

 

Deepfakes: How They’re Made and How They Can Be Detected (Mach, NBC News, Oct 2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8FO0P2a3dA&ab_channel=NBCNews

 

How Machine Learning Drives the Deceptive World of Deepfakes (Seeker, Dec 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsv1OsCEad0&ab_channel=Seeker

 

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https://vfxchrisume.com/

 

Audio - 

How Do You Make a Convincing Deepfake Video (Alex Hern, The Guardian, Mar 2021)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2021/mar/11/how-do-you-make-a-convincing-deepfake-video-podcast