27 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

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These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

AI Deepfakes in the Workplace: A New Frontier of Employer Liability – JD Supra

AI-generated fake voices becoming increasingly hard to detect - Yahoo News

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes – Futurism  

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? - New York Times

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. – Nature

Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters  

When AI lies: The rise of alignment faking in autonomous systems – Venture Beat 

1 year, 1 publisher, 9,000 books: AI-generated titles flood Korean shelves – Korea Times

The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds – New York Times  

How scammers are using AI deepfakes to steal money from taxpayers – Washington Post 

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece – New Yorker

AI Will Bring Val Kilmer Back To Life For a New Aventure Film – Geeky Tyrant

Researchers find nearly 300 papers at linguistics conferences contained hallucinated citations. – ArXiv

What a new law and an investigation could mean for Grok AI deepfakes – BBC

AI conference “accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations – Fortune

Scammers use AI photo of missing dog at emergency vet to steal nearly $2,000 - WTSP

Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning - Aperture

Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say – PBS

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage – New York Times

How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help - PopSci

Restaurant owner speaks out following AI-generated video – NBC Dallas

‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video – Politico

Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations – Inside Higher Ed

Fake Iran images show AI used as a weapon of ‘public opinion,’ USF experts say – The Hill

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media – BBC

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation – Financial Times

17 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

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AI Definitions: Steganography

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Steganography (pronounced STEG-an-ography, like the “Steg” in “stegasaurus”) - A method of tracking images by embedding an invisible code into the pixels that is invisible to humans but will travel along with the image during its lifetime. The marked images can be traced back to the original source with high level of accuracy because the code is embedded directly into the image’s pixels. Because the watermarks live directly in the visual part of the image itself, they are nearly impossible to remove, surviving common image-related manipulation such as aggressive cropping and taking screen shots of the image. If you’ve created an AI image recently, you’ve almost certainly used steganography without even knowing it. Most major AI image generation companies now use the tech. Companies are adding a poisoning application to these images. If someone should try to use them for deepfakes, the user will find them garbled and unusable.

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20 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

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What's behind the TikTok accounts using AI-generated versions of real Latino journalists? – NBC News 

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal business of AI video - The Washington Post

Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said – The Atlantic 

Inside a Network of Fake College Websites Dozens of fake college websites built with or supplemented by generative AI – Inside Higher Ed 

Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt – The Guardian  

Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online – New York Times 

Artificial intelligence as author: Can scientific reviewers recognize GPT-4o-generated manuscripts? – Science Direct 

How to spot an AI video? LOL, you can’t. - The Washington Post  

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles – 404Media  

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds - New York Times

 Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia - The Washington Post

AI slop videos are ruining our scrolling - Axios

How journalists can spot and mitigate AI bias - Reuters

AI slop might finally cure our internet addiction - The Atlantic 

Dave Barry Is told by AI that he’s dead – Dave Berry  

LeBron James Not Happy With AI Videos Showing Him Pregnant - Futurism

Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case – ABC News

Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes? – Wired

AI news videos blur line between real and fake reports – NBC News

Battling deepfakes: How AI threatens democracy and what we can do about it – The Conversation

32 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

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Israel and Iran use propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence  - New York Times  

Florida woman conned out of $15K after AI clones daughter’s voice – WFLA

How a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success – CBC

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials – Washington Post

Panel with AI experts to review appeal of NTU student penalised for academic misconduct - The Straits Times  

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations – Retraction Watch

How "consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation – Wired

How to Detect AI Writing: Tips and Tricks to Tell if Something Is Written With AI – CNET

How AI-generated content & misinformation are corrupting online academic resources, creating a "zombie" internet where errors and fake science perpetuate – The Dispatch  

Digital Literacy in the Age of AI: How to Fight Misinformation – Ed Tech Magazine  

AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse - Wired

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper – New York Times

OpenAI takes down covert operations using social media tied to China and other countries – NPR 

Wired Envisions a Deepfake Future you’re not prepared for – Wired

AI is perfecting scam emails, making phishing hard to catch - Axios

Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger’s dream – The Verge

AI models hallucinate less than humans — just in “more surprising ways”  - Tech Crunch

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist – 404 Media

Trump signs bill criminalizing revenge porn and explicit deepfakes - TechCrunch

Fake AI images are already manipulating you, and this crazy controversy is proof - BGR

Musk's xAI blames Grok's "white genocide" responses on unauthorized update - Axios

Music streaming service Deezer adds AI song tags in fight against fraud – Associated Press

Scammers use AI to spoof senior U.S. officials' voices, FBI warns - Axios

A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real? – New York Times

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features -
The Guardian

AI has probably already faked one of your memories. Here's what that means – BBC

How to Spot Fake Reviews on Amazon – Wired

Journalist says 4,000 fake AI news websites created to game Google algorithms – Press Gazette

What Are Deepfakes? Everything to Know About These AI Image and Video Forgeries - CNET

AI and disinformation fuel political tensions in the Philippines – Al Jazeera 

AI is polluting truth in journalism. Here’s how to disrupt the misinformation feedback loop. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A racist campaign message caused ire among Oklahoma Democrats. But it wasn't real, it was AI – The Oklahoman

Impersonating People with Down Syndrome

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AI-generated accounts impersonating people with Down syndrome are spreading across social media. Many of these artificial intelligence-backed profiles are gaining followers faster than real disability advocates — and they're making money from it. For people with Down syndrome, these fake accounts can feel like a new level of discrimination — one where their lived experiences are copied, exaggerated and monetized. -CBS News

23 Recent Articles about AI Fakes & Deepfakes

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What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025 – Columbia Journalism Review

Sony Music says over 75,000 songs in battle against AI deepfakes – Gizmodo 

‘Hi mom, it’s me’: voice cloning services demand stronger voice deepfake detection – BioMetricUpdate

Dark Side of GenAI: Ethical Dilemmas Threatening Our Future – Analytics Insight  

AI Search Has A Citation Problem – Columbia Journalism Review 

Celine Dion warns fans to beware of fake, AI-generated songs appearing online – CNN

YouTubers are being scammed with AI-generated deepfake videos – PC World

AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it – NBC News

Deepfakes, cash and crypto: how call centre scammers duped 6,000 people – The Guardian

I was so freaked out by talking to this AI that I had to leave – PC World

Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn – 404 Media

AI detectors are poor western blot classifiers: a study of accuracy and predictive values – PeerJ

Fake Video of Trump and Musk Appears on TVs at Housing Agency – New York Times

A ‘True Crime’ Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated – 404 Media

Scarlett Johansson warns of 'AI misuse' after fake Kanye video – BBC

AI Slop of Musk and Trump on TikTok Racks Up 700 Million Views – 404 Media

Schools face a new threat: "nudify" sites that use AI to create realistic, revealing images of classmates – CBS News

AI enters Congress: Sexually explicit deepfakes target women lawmakers – 19th News

AI nude photo investigation uncovers twice as many likely victims at Lancaster Country Day – WGAL  

Deepfakes didn’t disrupt the election, but they’re changing our relationship with reality – The Hill

Scarlett Johansson Slams AI Video of Celebrities Fighting Kanye West’s Antisemitism: ‘We Must Call Out the Misuse of AI, No Matter Its Messaging’ – Variety

How to Tell If Your Job Candidate Is an AI Deepfake – INC

Judge fines lawyers in Walmart lawsuit over fake, AI-generated cases – Reuters

15 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

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15 Recent Articles about AI Fakes

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How do AI Checkers Work?

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AI checkers will break down text, removing punctuation then use a technique called vectorization to convert it into a mathematical hash code for comparison to other text. Phrases and grammatical structure are assigned weights with uncommon language rated as more likely human-written. The AI detector also looks across the internet for use of the same language. The comparison identifies exact matches and paraphrases. This means data-rich companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are more likely to successfully identify AI-written material. Read more about this process on ZDnet

18 articles about AI Fakes    

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These ISIS news anchors are AI fakes. Their propaganda is real. – Washington Post

Generative AI poses Threat to election security, intelligence agencies warn – CBS News

Bank of Italy warns against AI-powered fake videos – Reuters

Google's AI Watermarks Will Identify Deepfakes – Dark Reading

In novel case, U.S. charges man with making child sex abuse images with AI – Washington Post

Voice-cloning technology bringing a key Supreme Court moment to 'life' – Associated Press

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures – Wall Street Journal

New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes - Ars Technica 

She was accused of faking an incriminating video but nothing was fake after all  - The Guardian

TikTok’s AI watermarks could help curb deepfakes, but it’s no panacea – Semafor

OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers – New York Times 

Microsoft and OpenAI launch $2M fund to counter election deepfakes – Tech Crunch  

OpenAI Says It Can Now Detect Images Spawned by Its Software—Most of the Time – Wall Street Journal

How AI-generated disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it – Reuters Institute  

How Generative AI Is Helping Fact-Checkers Flag Election Disinformation, But Is Less Useful in the Global South – Global Investigative Journalism Network  

In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024 – Washington Post

Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies - EL PAÍS English

Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection - Washington Post

14 Articles about How AI Tools are being Used to Create Fakes

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The Deepfake Dangers Ahead

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Because of advances in computing power, smarter machine learning algorithms and larger data sets, we will soon share digital space with a sinister array of AI-generated news articles and podcasts, deepfake images and videos—all produced at a once unthinkable scale and speed. As of 2018, according to one study, fewer than 10,000 deepfakes had been detected online. Today the number of deepfakes online is almost certainly in the millions. Deepfakes pose not only criminal risks but also threats to national security.

Read more at the Wall Street Journal

Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead.

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So many boomers that warned millennials to be careful on the internet seem to have forgotten all their own warnings. Their brains are broken, and that destruction is threatening to break our relationships, too.

There is so much content on the internet, and so much of it is bad. It is blasting in your face relentlessly. To navigate it well — to discern truth and lies, to parse one's own emotional and reflexive responses, to summon the mental energy to pay attention to credibility and incentives and the small, almost indescribable cues that might indicate whether a piece of content is to be trusted — is very difficult. It is especially difficult for those who have low digital literacy because they did not grow up using the internet. 

Our parents' generation, no less than ours, was totally unprepared for the advent of digital technology and mass media … They've been sucked into their screens like the rest of us. They weren't physically abducted, as they feared we could be by a chatroom catfisher in 1999. But it can still feel like the people we know and love are gone. 

Bonnie Kristan writing in The Week