deepfake

You know you’ve screwed up when you’ve simultaneously angered the White House, the TIME Person of the Year and pop culture’s most rabid fanbase. That’s what happened last week to…

The Taylor Swift deepfake debacle was frustratingly preventable

India has warned tech companies that it is prepared to impose bans if they fail to take active measures against deepfake videos, a senior government minister said, on the heels…

India puts tech firms on notice over deepfakes inaction

Reality Defender, one of several startups developing tools to attempt to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round…

Reality Defender raises $15M to detect text, video and image deepfakes

AI deepfakes are getting so good that a fraudulent MrBeast ad slipped past TikTok’s ad moderation technology to end up on the platform. In the ad, the massively influential creator…

How an AI deepfake ad of MrBeast ended up on TikTok

For a glimpse of the AI-generated misery fast accelerating onto our screens thanks to developments in synthetic media that are powering ever more sophisticated forms of deception, check out this…

Martin Lewis warns over ‘first’ deepfake video scam ad circulating on Facebook

Israeli AI company D-ID, which provided technology for projects like Deep Nostalgia, is launching a new platform where users can upload a single image and text to generate video. With…

D-ID, the company behind Deep Nostalgia, lets you create AI-generated videos from a single image

E-commerce customers record a 30-second video once and Maverick’s technology uses the voice samples to generate thousands of videos that are personalized to each customer.

Maverick leverages deepfakes for real e-commerce connection

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Daily Crunch: 4chan users exploit AI image generator’s ability to create realistic nude deepfakes

Google has banned the training of AI systems that can be used to generate deepfakes on its Google Colaboratory platform. The updated terms of use, spotted over the weekend by…

Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab

Last year, genealogy service MyHeritage went viral after introducing a new “deepfake” feature that allowed users to animate the faces of loved ones in still photos. TikTok users posted videos…

MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voice

The company whose tech powered the sensational MyHeritage app that turned classic family photos into lifelike moving portraits is back with a new implementation of its technology: Transforming still photographs…

D-ID launches ‘Speaking Portrait,’ a way to turn photos into custom, photo-realistic videos

Featured Article

AI luminary Kai-Fu Lee and sci-fi author Chen Qiufan predict the future in ‘AI 2041’

What will an AI-infused world look like in 20 years? Sinovation founder and AI thought leader Kai-Fu Lee and breakout sci-fi author Chen Qiufan (aka Stanley Chen) make an educated guess in “AI 2041.”

AI luminary Kai-Fu Lee and sci-fi author Chen Qiufan predict the future in ‘AI 2041’

A new startup called Happaning wants to make video a more immersive experience by allowing people to watch the same event from multiple perspectives. Or, as co-founder and CEO Andrew…

Happaning aims to be a ‘Google Street View’ for video

Buzzy face-swapping video app Reface is expanding its reality-shifting potential beyond selfies by letting users upload more of their own content for its AI to bring to life. Users of…

Reface now lets users face-swap into pics and GIFs they upload