The deeply troubling world of deepfakes

The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek triggered a plunge in US tech stocks as it appeared to perform as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI models but using fewer resources. Helen Pidd speaks to Robert Booth, the Guardian’s UK technolog ... Show More

Around the world, soaring inflation has pushed voters to turn on incumbent governments. But one country bucked the trend – Mexico, where the leftwing Morena party recorded a landslide victory. The key to it’s success? A policy platform built on minimum salary rises, labour reform ... Show More

Donald Trump’s decision to seat super-rich tech barons Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai in front of his own members of cabinet at his inauguration has sent a strong signal about who holds power in America now. Technology editor Blake Montgomery t ... Show More

<p><i>Warning: this episode contains strong language, descriptions of explicit content and sexual harassment</i></p><p>A disturbing new problem is sweeping American schools: Students are using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images of their classmates and then ... Show More

<p>En Almendralejo, más de 30 niñas han sufrido <strong>los estragos del <em>deepfake</em></strong>. Sus desnudos llevan tiempo circulando por varios grupos de WhatsApp de la localidad, pero esto tiene truco: <strong>las imágenes, falsas, han sido creadas por inteligencia artific ... Show More

After ‘The Godfather’ of artificial intelligence sounds the alarm about his own dangerous creation, Christiane asks senior A.I. researcher Connor Leahy, and also the head of Cyber Policy at Stanford University Marietje Schaake, if they think A.I. is a major threat to humanity, or ... Show More

Les prochaines élections aux Etats-Unis ou dans l’Union européenne&nbsp;seront-elles celles des deepfakes&nbsp;? En janvier, deux scandales ont mis à nouveau la lumière sur la viralité et les risques de ces trucages particulièrement réalistes générés par intelligence artificielle ... Show More

After explicit faked photos of Taylor Swift went around the world, US politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images. The term ‘deepfake’ describes how artificial intelligence – AI – can be used to digitally alter pictures, audio or video and ... Show More