Over the past three years, celebrities have been appearing across social media in improbable scenarios. You may have recently caught a grinning Tom Cruise doing magic tricks with a coin or Nicolas Cage appearing as Lois Lane in
Man of Steel. Most of us now recognize these clips as deepfakes startlingly realistic videos created using artificial intelligence. In 2017, they began circulating on message boards like Reddit as altered videos from anonymous users; the term is a portmanteau of “deep learning” the process used to train an algorithm to doctor a scene and “fake.” Deepfakes once required working knowledge of AI-enabled technology, but today, anyone can make their own using free software like FakeApp or Faceswap. All it takes is some sample footage and a large data set of photos (one reason celebrities are targeted is the easy availability of high-quality facial images) and the app can convincingly swap out one person’s face for another’s.
Deepfake pornography could lead to next pandemic as hackers steal photos
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The Butchers: novel set in Irish BSE crisis wins Ondaatje prize Alison Flood
Ruth Gilligan’s literary thriller The Butchers, set in the Irish borderlands during the BSE crisis, has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje prize for books that “best evoke the spirit of a place”.
Gilligan’s novel beat titles including James Rebanks’ memoir of his family farm, English Pastoral, and Nina Mingya Powles’ poetry collection Magnolia, 木蘭 to the £10,000 prize. The Butchers opens with an ancient curse that decrees that eight men must touch every cow in Ireland as it dies, and follows a group of eight men as they roam rural Ireland in the 1990s, slaughtering the cows of those who still believe in the old ways. The novel unpicks the mysterious death of one of the Butchers, whose corpse is found suspended from a meat hook.
Fabulous investigates sinister rise of deepfake porn as cases soar
Investigation
May 1 2021, 19:17 ET
DURING lockdown, cases of counterfeit pornography – created by superimposing stolen pictures of victims on to obscene images – soared, with women the main victims. Fabulous investigates…
Looking at the stills from a hardcore porn film, Helen Mort went into shock. The sexual images were violent, involving acts of strangulation – but the most shocking part is that they were of her.
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During lockdown, cases of counterfeit pornography or deepfake porn soared with women the main victimsCredit: Emma Ledwith
Yet Helen had never taken part in the acts she was staring at on screen.
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