“It’s just politics, isn’t it?” Two Conservative councillors have been reported to the police, after sharing a graphic deepfake AI video of the Green Party Deputy Leader, Rachel Millward. Neil Cleaver and Michael Lunn sit on Wealden District council in East Sussex, where Millward is deputy leader. They are tonight facing calls to resign. Speaking […]
3 months ago
The 37-year-old went to extreme lengths in her new documentary. Reality TV star Vicky Pattison has spoken out after she received backlash for creating a deepfake sex tape of herself while filming a documentary for Channel 4. The former Geordie Shore star created My Deepfake Sex Tape with the help of Channel 4 last year, […]
1 year ago
‘Enemy hackers’ have been blamed for the deepfake shown on news broadcast A video of Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling on his country to surrender to Russian forces has been revealed as a deepfake. The clip, which was shown on Ukrainian TV and appeared on a tabloid’s website, has now been removed from Facebook. The […]
4 years ago
“It’s going to become the next epidemic of abuse.” A legal expert has warned that deepfake pornography could become the “next pandemic” and that there will be an “epidemic” of sexual abuse if changes aren’t made to current laws in order to tackle the practice. Deepfake pornography involves people using computer technology to map the […]
5 years ago
Deepfake technology is everywhere these days This year has seen a proliferation and increased sophistication of a technology known widely as deepfake. The tech allows users to replace the face of a person with the face of another, with the change appearing in realtime on video. The first truly viral deepfake saw Steve Buscemi’s face […]
7 years ago