Deepfake ‘Face Swap’ Attacks Surged By 704% in 2023
New research has revealed that deepfake attacks using "face swap" technology surged by 704% in 2023.
New research has revealed that deepfake attacks using "face swap" technology surged by 704% in 2023.
Skylum, the company behind the Luminar Neo editing platform, and Fujifilm have partnered to host 50 free photo walks across the United States, giving photographers a chance to not only see their local cities in a new light but also try out new Fujifilm gear.
A wedding photographer must pay $30,000 in civil penalties for advertising her services using images taken by other photographers and failing to disclose that the pictures were not her own.
The Minions made fun of terrible AI images in a Super Bowl ad last night for the upcoming movie Despicable Me 4.
Ahead of Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, PetaPixel chatted with Mike Francis, CBS Sports' Vice President of Engineering and Technology, about the camera technology that underpins not just the broadcast on CBS and Paramount+, but the cameras that help the refs make the correct calls.
At a recent electronic music performance, the English duo Rob Brown and Sean Booth, who perform as Autechre, plunged Sydney’s City Recital Hall into darkness.
Flickr is celebrating its 20th anniversary. From the early days of the internet through to today, the photo-sharing site that is now home to everyone from amateur photographers through NASA has certainly come a long way.
OnePlus isn’t the kind of company that just goes away, and its persistence may have finally paid off with the OnePlus 12, a very impressive flagship phone that undercuts all others. This phone starts at $800, but trade-in incentives can drop it $100 or more, which feels like a bargain compared to competitors who hover around or above $1,000.
In what could be one of the most impactful changes to the algorithm, Instagram and Meta's answer to X, Threads, will no longer suggest political content to users who don't opt in.
Promising grand "AI Superpowers," the Frame from Brilliant Labs is a pair of augmented reality smart glasses that are open-source and include support for live translation and AI visual recognition.
When galaxies collide, they don't necessarily destroy the stars within them. As NASA explains, contrary to popular belief, such a galactic "rough-and-tumble" actually triggers the generation of new stars and -- presumably -- planets.
In the wake of an already contentious election season, Midjourney might ban images of President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump.
Developed by researchers at the University of Singapore, AiSee is a discreet wearable that combines a 13-megapixel camera with a bone conductive speaker that is able to identify objects a wearer is holding and is meant to be especially useful for blind grocery shoppers.
A classic news report produced by the BBC in 2001 on the coming of smartphone cameras has resurfaced.
A mother has been left "horrified" after live images of her children were beamed from a city council camera for public consumption.
National Geographic has just released a very cool trailer for a new show entitled Photographer.
Lee -- the biopic of Lee Miller which stars Kate Winslet as the iconic photographer -- has finally got a release date.
Legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado has announced his retirement from shooting in the field.
Apple released an open-source AI model for image editing, possibly giving users a hint at what's to come in the company's upcoming generative AI features.
There's no denying that photography is a gear-focused endeavor. We are constantly pitched fancy new equipment with the idea that more gear will make us better photographers. For some photographers and their needs, that's absolutely true. But for those just starting, some equipment simply isn't necessary.
NASA engineers are working hard to resolve a critical issue with the Voyager 1 but communications with the longest-operating spacecraft in history may ultimately be lost.
More than 200 companies and organizations signed on to join the US AI Safety Insitute Consortium to advance responsible use of artificial intelligence.
Canon has claimed victory again and says it was the number one mirrorless camera brand in the United States in 2023, its third straight year holding the position.
Glass Imaging, a company that showcased its ability to dramatically improve the quality of smartphone images thanks to its specialized neural network, has received $9.3 million in a seed funding round led by Google Ventures.
On February 7, 1984, astronaut Hoot Gibson aimed his camera out of the crew cabin window of the space shuttle Challenger towards Bruce McCandless II as he floated freely in space. What resulted is one of the most, if not the most, iconic photos and most requested images. It turns 40 years old this week.
William "Bill" Claff of Photons to Photos recently added numerous cameras to his fantastic and vast library of photographic dynamic range tests, including the Panasonic Lumix G9 II.
TikTok and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are suing the European Union (EU) over a segment of the Digital Services Act that requires the companies to pay a fee to cover the cost of regulating them.
AI images generated on OpenAI's DALL-E 3 will now have a watermark added to them from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).
The Compact Flash Association (CFA) finally published a list of all VPG certified memory cards that provide a guarantee that they will work with certain functions of all supported cameras, including Sony cameras that require the certification.
The early days of photography were built on monochromatic imagery. Many of the greats who created what we now know as the art of photography worked primarily with black-and-white film.
The European Parliament and European Council reached an agreement Tuesday to criminalize sexually explicit deepfakes, an essential legal milestone as artificially generated images flourish.
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) upended beliefs about the fundamental nature of the Universe, delivering evidence that the Universe was not slowing down, as gravity seemingly implied it must be, but expanding. 25 years later, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can help scientists make another breakthrough.
A week after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled during a Senate hearing on child safety, the company announced new protections for teens navigating sextortion scams.
As seen from the Perseverance Rover as it drives away, NASA's Martian helicopter Ingenuity sits alone amidst windswept sand dunes, its mission complete.
A cache of Type 1 photographs of pop culture icons are up for auction that includes pictures of Jackie Kennedy, Al Capone, Walt Disney, and many more.
Photographers in Minnesota have been left reeling after being banned from dance tournaments. The league has hired its own photographers whose pictures will be available to purchase by the public.
Nikon is making the Z8 mirrorless camera -- PetaPixel's 2023 Camera of the Year -- even better through firmware version 2.0, a free update which adds multiple features and enhancements for still-image, video capture and improved workflow.
Meta announced Tuesday it will begin labeling images detected to be AI-generated across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.