Tag: deepfake
Instagram forces users to watch ads, Russia ‘targeting Olympics with deepfakes’
Instagram is testing adverts that users cannot skip past. The social media platform currently allows people to swipe or scroll past adverts that appear in its main feed of images and videos, as well as in its Stories and Reels feeds. But it is now trialling a feature called "ad break", which users say they…
Face search company Clearview AI overturns fine, NY mayor uses ‘audio deepfakes’
A company that enables its clients to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular face has won an appeal against the UK's privacy watchdog. Last year, Clearview AI was fined more than £7.5m by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for unlawfully storing facial images. Jack Mulcaire,…
Deepfakes could help in training videos, University of Bath study claims
Watching a training video featuring a deepfake version of yourself, rather than a clip featuring somebody else, makes learning faster, easier and more fun, according to new research led by the REVEAL research centre at the University of Bath. This finding was seen over two separate experiments, one exploring fitness training and another involving public speaking. Dr Christof…
Tech Digest daily roundup: New law will make sharing pornographic deepfakes a crime
A planned new law would make sharing pornographic deepfakes without consent a crime in England and Wales. Tackling the rise in manipulated images, where a person's face is put on someone else's body, is part of a crackdown on the abuse of intimate pictures in the Online Safety Bill. This law would also make it…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Elon Musk unveils Tesla humanoid robot Optimus
Image: Tesla Elon Musk has unveiled a prototype of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus, which the electric car maker aims to mass produce in the millions and sell for under £18,000. The billionaire tycoon said he expected the company would be ready to take orders in three to five years. Musk said…
Regulate loot boxes under gambling law and ban them from children, MPs say
Loot boxes in video games should be regulated under gambling law and banned from being sold to children, MPs have argued. The feature appears in some games as packs of virtual objects players can buy using real money, but the contents of a pack are randomised and not known until after purchase, which has led…
