Ironically, Stable Diffusion, the new AI image synthesis framework that has taken the world by storm, is neither stable nor really that ‘diffused’ – at least,...
New research from Italy has found that depth information obtained from images can be a useful tool to detect deepfakes – even in real-time. Whereas the...
New research developed at Adobe is offering the first viable and effective deepfakes method based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) – perhaps the first real innovation...
Over the weekend, apparently sometime around Sunday, Reddit banned the nominally ‘SFW’ (Safe For Work) deepfakes community titled r/deepfakesfw. The subreddit was one of the early...
Sometime in the last two weeks, Google has quietly changed the terms of service for its Colab users, adding a stipulation that Colab services may no...
A research collaboration between China and the UK has devised a new method to reshape faces in video. The technique allows for convincing broadening and narrowing...
Since the golden age of Roman statuary, depicting human hair has been a thorny challenge. The average human head contains 100,000 strands, has varying refractive indices...
A new paper from researchers in Italy and Germany proposes a method to detect deepfake videos based on biometric face and voice behavior, rather than artifacts...
Not all deepfake practitioners share the same objective: the impetus of the image synthesis research sector – backed by influential proponents such as Adobe, NVIDIA and...
New research from the Alibaba DAMO academy offers an AI-driven workflow for automating the reshaping of images of bodies – a rare effort in a computer...
A new collaboration between Microsoft and a Chinese university has proposed a novel way of identifying celebrity deepfakes, by leveraging the shortcomings of current deepfake techniques...
A new research collaboration between the US and China has probed the susceptibility to deepfakes of some of the biggest face-based authentication systems in the world,...
Yesterday’s debut of episode 6 of the Star Wars spin-off The Book of Boba Fett seems to have divided fan opinion. Received to general approbation, there’s...
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has proposed a new set of draft regulations to govern AI-aided synthesis systems, including deepfakes, virtual reality scenes, text generation,...
Analysis For campaigners hoping that 2022 could be the year that deepfaked imagery falls within a stricter legal purview, the early indicators are unpromising. Last Thursday...
