Truepic Lens Assures a Photo’s Authenticity at the Moment of Capture
Truepic Lens, a company that identifies the authenticity of images and video, can fully integrate into photo capture apps and allow users to verify an image in real-time.
‘Speaking Portrait’ Turns Photos into Eerily Realistic Talking Heads
D-ID, the company whose tech powers the MyHeritage app, has demonstrated a new use for its technology. Called "Speaking Portrait," it allows any photo to be animated with uncanny realism and is capable of saying whatever the user wants.
New ‘Markpainting’ Tech Fights Watermark Removal and Deepfakes
A team of researchers has put together a new initiative with an available open-source code to help better detect deepfakes that have been edited to remove watermarks with the goal of avoiding the spread of misinformation.
Deepfake Satellite Images Pose Risk to Global Politics and Military: Report
Fake, AI-generated satellite images can pose threat to nations and agencies worldwide, a team of researchers warns. These bogus images could be used to create hoaxes ranging from natural disasters to propping up other fake news, or even be used to mislead international governments into conflicts.
AI-Powered Virtual People Can Now Take Over Office Receptionist Duties
Earlier this year, Hour One debuted its technology for creating fully digital, photorealistic, AI-powered clones for the purposes of content creation, but this week the company is showing another practical use case: in-office digital receptionists.
Tom Cruise Isn’t On TikTok: It’s a Shockingly-Realistic Deepfake [Updated]
Update on 3/05/2021: The creator of the deeptomcruise account today revealed that it was a stunt. Masterminded by visual effects expert Chris Ume, the goal was to draw attention to deepfakes and petition for their regulation.
‘Tokkingheads’ Lets You Animate Portraits Using Artificial Intelligence
Rosebud.Ai, a company that wants to "disrupt media creation," has created a service called TokkingHeads that will take any still image and turn it into a moving, talking avatar using artificial intelligence.
AI Can Now Turn You Into a Fully Digital, Realistic Talking Clone
Hour One describes itself as a "video transformation company" that wants to replace cameras with code, and its latest creation is the ability for anyone to create a fully digital clone of themselves that can appear to speak "on camera" without a camera or audio inputs at all.
Scientists Prove That Current Deepfake Detectors Can Still Be Fooled
Multiple companies including Microsoft and Facebook as well as researchers from The University of Southern California have developed technologies to combat deepfakes and prevent their spread of false media and misinformation. A group of scientists have still managed to fool them, however.
Warping Reality: Adobe’s Neural Filters are Ripe for Mayhem
Face tuning apps have thrived for years in the mobile phone ecosystem, allowing users to make subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) changes to their appearance for a selfie-obsessed generation.
Microsoft’s New AI ‘Authenticator’ Spots Manipulated Photos and Videos
Earlier today, Microsoft announced two new tools that will help identify manipulated photos and videos. The first is a metadata-based system, and the second is a "Video Authenticator" that will analyze photos and videos and provide a "confidence score" that tells you whether or not the media has been altered by AI.
Disney’s High-Res Face-Swap Tech is Both Impressive and Creepy
Disney researchers have unveiled a new algorithm for fully automatic high-resolution face-swapping for both photos and videos.
These Deepfakes of Famous People Are Testing Facebook’s Policies
Facebook has recently taken a position of not removing faked videos, choosing instead to reduce their reach and display them alongside fact-checking information. Now a series of viral deepfake videos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other famous individuals is putting Facebook's policies to the test.
Samsung AI Can Turn a Single Portrait Into a Realistic Talking Head
There have been huge advancements in recent years in the area of AI "deepfakes", or fake photos or videos of humans created using neural networks. Fake videos of a person usually require a large number of photos of that individual, but Samsung has figured out how to create realistic talking heads from as little as a single portrait photo.