The deeply troubling world of deepfakes

The violent and confronting scenes that took place at anti-immigration rallies across the country last weekend continue to reverberate throughout Australian politics. Protesters said they marched because migration levels have reached record highs. Despite the real figures telling ... Show More

Tens of thousands of spectators packed the stands to witness Xi Jinping’s military parade marking 80 years since the defeat of Japan in the second world war. And watching from above, along the Chinese leader, were some of the world’s most powerful men, including Russia’s Vladimir ... Show More

Thousands attended the ‘March for Australia’ anti-immigration rallies around the country on the weekend. Among those there were neo-Nazi groups and far-right figures who have captured the headlines. While the organisers have distanced the events from white supremacists, and the p ... Show More

Warning: this episode contains strong language, descriptions of explicit content and sexual harassmentA disturbing new problem is sweeping American schools: Students are using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images of their classmates and then share them witho ... Show More

In 1969, an anthropologist introduced photographs and films to people in Papua New Guinea who’d never seen themselves represented in media before. It changed their conception of the world. In modern society, social media floods us with imagery at a pace we’ve never encountered be ... 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 seront-elles celles des deepfakes ? 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 : des fau ... Show More

Fake nude images generated with artificial intelligence tools can lead to bullying and judgment in schools, even when everyone knows the pictures aren’t real. WSJ’s family and tech columnist Julie Jargon joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss the impacts these images can have. Plus, do ... 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

Interview with Irina Ivanova from Melbourne about the possibilities of artificial intelligence and creating images using neural networks. - Интервью с Ириной Ивановой из Мельбурна о возможностях искусственного интеллекта и создании изображений с помощью нейросетей. 

On World Press Freedom Day, the focus is often the heroics of gathering and delivering information in the face of violence. But during a pandemic, it's the online threats that are hitting harder, and women journalists are being hacked, doxxed, deepfaked and threatened all over th ... Show More