Rebecca started by explaining a bit more about the complicated world of deepfake technology. For more on this, we spoke with Rebecca Delfino, Law Professor at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and Karen Hao, the Senior AI Editor at MIT Technology Review. Up until now, deepfake required significant coding skills, but now there's a new app that makes it possible for almost anyone to point, click, hit send, and within moments, your boss is watching what appears to be a genuine video of you engage in explicit sexual acts. These are not adorable holiday animations, and typically, it's not even obvious that they're fake. Deepfake use AI technology to take the faces of unsuspecting non-consenting women and put them onto the bodies of people in pornographic videos.

Deepfake first emerge within pornography and most remained pornographic in nature. Just point-click hit send, and within moments, your best friend is rocking out to a birthday card, featuring a mashup of you and the godfather assault.Įasy face-swapping technology is great when it's silly, consensual animated fun, but as many people know there's a more sinister side, deepfakes. You can even put your head on the body of an animated James round. JibJab is an app that allows you to upload a picture of yourself onto the body of a dancing elf or an adorable puppy. With Twitter, we find communities to express ourselves, sell products and even watch sports from across the miles. iPhoto lets us instantly share our picks with far-flung family. Platforms like Zoom kept us connected in a pandemic. There are many reasons to love web-based innovation.

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