{"id":107984,"date":"2021-12-21T07:31:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107984"},"modified":"2021-12-21T05:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T10:07:51","slug":"reuters-deepfake-anyone-ai-synthetic-media-tech-enters-perilous-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107984","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Deepfake anyone: AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you want to see yourself acting in a movie or on TV?\u201d said the description for one app on online stores, offering users the chance to create AI-generated synthetic media, also known as deepfakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want to see your best friend, colleague, or boss dancing?\u201d it added. \u201cHave you ever wondered how would you look if your face swapped with your friend\u2019s or a celebrity\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same app was advertised differently on dozens of adult sites: \u201cMake deepfake porn in a sec,\u201d the ads said. \u201cDeepfake anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How increasingly sophisticated technology is applied is one of the complexities facing synthetic media software, where machine learning is used to digitally model faces from images and then swap them into films as seamlessly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The technology, barely four years old, may be at a pivotal point, according to interviews with companies, researchers, policymakers and campaigners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2021\/12\/20\/world\/deepfake-synthetic-media-concerns\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deepfake anyone: AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phase <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pLR50oOOCL\">https:\/\/t.co\/pLR50oOOCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TmhvzmuiL7\">pic.twitter.com\/TmhvzmuiL7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Vermaut (@AndyVermaut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyVermaut\/status\/1472838571270701058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you want to see yourself acting in a movie or on TV?\u201d said the description for one app on online stores, offering users the chance to create AI-generated synthetic media, also known as deepfakes. \u201cDo you want to see<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107984\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,94,589,168,195,116,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-photosphotography","category-pornography","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107987,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107984\/revisions\/107987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}