Microsoft has announced that the private preview of Content Integrity tools will expand to EU political parties, campaigns, and media groups worldwide to fight election deepfake images.
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A group of tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Meta, X, and Amazon have pledged to use their resources to fight off AI deepfakes designed to create false info for the 2024 elections.
The Attorney General's Office in New Hampshire made progress in investigating the robocall campaign that used the fake voice of President Joe Biden to deter people from voting in primaries.
Deepfake technology has been used to trick an employee at a multinational to authorize a $25.6 million transaction to fraudsters. The worker was invited to a call with several colleagues impersonated.
A fake audio message impersonating Joe Biden was used to urge supporters not to vote in the presidential primary. The new incident reinforces national concern about the misuse of AI.
Microsoft has announced a new tool to help political candidates verify that campaign materials have not been tampered with by deepfakes. The tool allows images and videos to be watermarked.
Midjourney will only allow people to access its AI art generator if they pay at least $10 a month, as many of its images have been used to create realistic-looking "deepfake" photos of real people.
After an incident last January where a streamer displayed a browser window that contained deepfake porn of other streamers, Twitch is now taking a harder stance when it comes to such content.
China has issued regulations on the use of deepfakes in order to curb the potential risks associated with their use, as well as to promote the healthy development of the industry.
The European Commission could unveil new rules on Thursday, according to a new report. It would see social media firms having to take action against deepfake content being posted on their platforms.
Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to alter photos, videos, or audio files in hard-to-detect ways. This initiative to combat disinformation is part of Microsoft's Defending Democracy Program.
Selim Seferbekov won Facebook's Deepfake Detection Challenge. His model achieved a 65% average precision on the test dataset. None of the participants hit 70% despite good training accuracy.
With the initiation of the Deepfake Detection Challenge, Facebook, Microsoft, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, and others join hands in figuring out new ways to contain the spread of deepfakes.
It's now illegal to share deepfake revenge porn content in Virginia, U.S. The new rule came as part of an amendment to the state's revenge porn law that was introduced back in 2014.
