Generative AI has made deepfakes – videos, audio, and images either made or modified by AI software – easier to create and much harder to spot. And they are used to dupe you, spread misinformation or ...

As AI-generated deepfakes grow more realistic, they pose new threats to scientific integrity. This article unpacks how ...

Introduction The proliferation of deepfake technology, synthetic media generated using advanced artificial intelligence techniques, has emerged as a ...

Legislators have made some attempts to curb the creation of deepfakes. In April, Congress passed the Take It Down Act, which makes it a crime to create or distribute intimate images, real or deepfake, ...

Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected ...

If your child hasn’t seen a deepfake of someone associated with their school, it’s likely that a friend or their teacher is aware of one. Deepfakes are inauthentic images, videos or audio recordings ...

OpenAI’s new text-to-video app, Sora, was supposed to be a social AI playground, allowing users to create imaginative AI videos of themselves, friends and celebrities while building off of others’ ...

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The 2024 U.S. presidential campaign has featured some notable deepfakes — AI-powered impersonations of candidates that sought to mislead voters or demean the candidates being targeted. Thanks to Elon ...

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Minnesota's law criminalizing election deepfakes say an expert brought in by the state likely wrote his opinion with the help of AI. Reading time 2 minutes In what ...