Stanford Prof Accused of Using AI to Write Legal Document Attacking AI-Generated Deepfakes
A leading “misinformation expert” is under fire for citing seemingly non-existent sources in an affidavit supporting a new Minnesota law banning some AI-generated deepfakes. Lawyers on the other side say a Stanford professor's use of AI to create legal documents backfired when the system “hallucinated” by generating false references to fictitious academic papers. He claims […]
AI tracker charts growth in deepfakes ahead of election
Germany's Marshall Fund has launched a tool to track AI-generated deepfakes targeting elections circulating in the US and around the world. tool It comes in a historic election year. More than half of the planet has held or will hold elections in 2024, which will collide with a proliferation of AI-generated audio, video, and images […]
AI ‘deepfakes’ of Hurricane Helene victims circulate on social media
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helen, false information flooded the internet, including two doctored AI images showing a child desperately crying on a boat that appeared to be flooded. At first glance, a photo circulating online shows a child wearing a life jacket and holding a dog while soaking wet from continuous rain from the […]
Federal judge blocks California law banning election deepfakes
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a California bill that would have outlawed AI-generated “deepfake” content and required the removal of “deceptive content” from social media. The preliminary injunction comes just two weeks after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial bill that sparked a spat with X Company owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. […]
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot goes viral with mind-blowing deepfakes
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot has been flooding the web with “deepfake” images of everyone from Donald Trump to Musk himself, with results that range from the downright bizarre to the downright disturbing. Since launching last week, Grok users have been creating a plethora of fake images of Trump, from robbing a convenience store to […]
Deepfakes in politics and society require more than one solution
This week, former President Trump falsely claimed that images from a recent Harris rally were faked by artificial intelligence, the first clear example of a major American candidate using deepfakes to create uncertainty. Trump’s comments come in response to a growing trend of deepfake scams, including:Generate audio of President BidenNew Hampshire’s primary electionProbably more influentialDeepfakes […]
SAG President Fran Drescher slams ‘AI fraudsters’ as congressional bill on deepfakes receives massive support
A new bill on artificial intelligence deepfakes introduced by a bipartisan group of senators is bringing together actors, studios and tech companies. The NoFake Act, spearheaded by Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, is an updated version of an earlier discussion draft introduced last fall that aimed to target digital deepfakes and protect the likeness […]
Congress fights nonconsensual deepfakes
technology Full text Newsom launches podcast with former NFL star Marshawn Lynch California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is launching a podcast with retired NFL star Marshawn Lynch and his agent, iHeartMedia announced on Wednesday. The launch of the show, titled “Politickin’,” comes as Newsom has been mentioned as a possible candidate to replace Biden in […]
KJP suggests videos of Biden’s latest mental lapse are ‘deepfakes’ — but there’s nothing fake about these 5 incidents
President Joe Biden joined former President Barack Obama and several Hollywood script readers in Los Angeles over the weekend to raise funds for his reelection campaign, and unlike edited video excerpts circulated online by Democratic activists, The Hollywood Reporter’s Chris Gardner released raw, uninterrupted footage that shows the 81-year-old presidential candidate once again becoming nervous […]
DOJ claims it can’t release Biden-Hur interview due to threat of AI deepfakes
The Justice Department argued in a court filing on Friday that it cannot release audio of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur due to fears of deepfakes. The motion was made as part of a legal challenge to Biden’s attempt to invoke executive privilege to keep the recordings from being made public. In […]