{"id":913,"date":"2020-04-10T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=913"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:27:21","slug":"porn-politics-are-key-targets-in-deepfakes-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Porn, politics are key targets in &#039;deepfakes&#039;: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/2xdzuhvlwi5.jpg\" alt=\"video\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                Credit: CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>So-called &#8220;deepfake&#8221; videos are proliferating online, with most of them pornographic but with some politically motivated ones as well, security researchers said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>A report by the security firm Deeptrace identified 96 percent of deepfakes as &#8220;nonconsensual pornography,&#8221; which use the images of female celebrities or others in videos manipulated using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found the number of deepfake videos almost doubling over the last seven months to 14,678.<\/p>\n<p>The report said four websites dedicated to deepfake pornography received more than 134 million views, which &#8220;demonstrates a market for websites creating and hosting deepfake pornography, a trend that will continue to grow unless decisive action is taken,&#8221; said Deeptrace chief executive Georgio Patrini in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Patrini said deepfakes are also &#8220;making a significant impact on the political sphere,&#8221; noting cases in Gabon and Malaysia targeting political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These examples are possibly the most powerful indications of how deepfakes are already destabilizing political processes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Patrini said some new cases are emerging &#8220;where synthetic voice audio and images of non-existent, synthetic people were used to enhance social engineering against businesses and governments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report comes amid growing concerns that deepfakes could be used to manipulate voters ahead of elections in the United States and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Big social networks have been stepping up efforts to detect and thwart the distribution of manipulated videos but analysts say it is increasingly difficult to stop the spread of deepfakes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: CC0 Public Domain So-called &#8220;deepfake&#8221; videos are proliferating online, with most of them pornographic but with some politically motivated ones as well, security researchers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[448,505,504,503,80],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-tips","tag-key","tag-politics","tag-porn","tag-targets","tag-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}