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Macron shares his deepfakes for AI summit attention
"President Macron's deepfake might seem fancy harmless fun to promote the AI Summit in Paris, but it is not in general a good thing," says Paul McKay, principal analyst at technology consultancy Forrester.
"Normalising deepfakes in this way should not be encouraged as it continues the difficulty with telling what is real and what isn't, and is ultimately helping to establish what is fact from fiction."
Dr Richard Whittle from Salford Business School also warns of the risk of "normalising" deepfakes videos, "both on social media and by scammers".
He adds: "It is great to bring attention to this threat, but doing it in a way that shows how easy it is to create deepfakes risks their wider adoption."
Prof Philip Howard, president of the International Panel on the Information Environment, says AI is increasingly being used "in innovative, sometimes playful ways, as demonstrated by President Macron's recent video."
But he adds: "These kinds of video
David France | Identity protection with deepfakes
Using AI-generated Encounter Doubles in Documentary: Welcome to Chechnya
For his new observational documentary, Welcome to Chechnya, director David France took amazing measures to protect his subjects: members of the LGBTQ+ community fleeing state-sanctioned persecution and violence in Chechnya. In a world-first, David turned to AI-generated face replacement tech (also used in deepfakes) to create a safe “witness protection program” for the subjects, while preserving an intensely emotional connection between the films’ audiences and subjects. To accomplish this feat, David added nearly a year to an elaborate post-production phase of the film. In this talk, David breaks down the complex technological, aesthetic, psychological and human rights protocols he and his team developed to verb one of the most urgent and emotionally dominant documentaries of This episode of Deepfakery was presented as part of the MIT Open Documentary Lab Fall lecture series.
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