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Purdue professor leads international team’s research into deepfakes, manipulated media
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Edward Delp, the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Video and Imaging Processing Laboratory at Purdue University, is leading a team of experts for the U.S. Department of Defense researching ways to detect several forms of manipulated media. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood)
Falsified images, research documents among the latest areas of focus
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Deepfake videos of actor Tom Cruise on Tik Tok can create some confused fans. A deepfake video of a drug company CEO announcing COVID-19 vaccine failures, however, could cause panic.
This App Will Soon Unleash Deepfake Videos That Can Frame Anyone: MetaHuman Creator lets any dummy create deepfakes for fun. Before long, only a fool will believe anything he sees online.
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Epic Games just released the first demos for MetaHuman Creator, bringing us one step closer to living in a simulation. The cloud-based app has an intuitive interface, allowing minimally competent users to create ultra-realistic digital humans “in less than an hour, without compromising on quality.”
Just as Pro Tools gave burnouts the power to make techno, or PhotoShop let perverts alter celebrity images, soon anyone with a decent laptop will be able to generate a deepfake. It’s gonna be hilarious at first.
Twitter launches community-based Birdwatch to fight misinformation
The pilot programme allows users to flag tweets that they believe are misleading
Twitter launches Birdwatch feature to fight misinformation on its platform
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