Deepfake incidents are surging in 2024, predicted to increase by 60% or more this year, pushing global cases to 150,000 or more. That's making AI-powered deepfake attacks the fastest-growing type of ...

A new crop of deepfake videos and images is causing a stir — a periodic phenomenon that seems to be happening more frequently, as several bills focused on deepfakes remain in Congress. The issue made ...

Grok is being rampantly used on X to publicly alter images of women on the social media site to more explicit, sexualised ...

NEW YORK, NY / TORONTO, ON – March, 21, 2024 – Artificial intelligence may make it difficult for even the most discerning ears to detect deepfake voices – as recently evidenced in the fake Joe Biden ...

The hobbyists who helped build this site created technology that has been used to humiliate countless women. Why didn’t governments step in and stop them?

Some deepfakes are obvious spoofs. Others are deceptively—and eerily—realistic. As we move into years punctuated by important elections around the globe poised to affect around half of the global ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law the Take It Down Act, a measure that imposes penalties for online sexual exploitation that first lady Melania Trump helped usher through ...

Bogus pornographic images purporting to show pop superstar Taylor Swift have emerged on social media, highlighting a growing challenge to privacy... A new crop of deepfake videos and images is causing ...

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