deepfakes
Blockchain as a Deepfake Countermeasure: The Case for Digital Tru
As deepfakes grow more convincing, blockchain-based content provenance and verification systems are emerging as a critical layer of digital trust infrastructure.
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deepfakes
Deepfake AI Now Threatens Bank and Crypto KYC Systems
Deepfake technology is increasingly being weaponized against Know Your Customer verification systems in banking and cryptocurrency, challenging the identity authentication infrastructure that underpins financial security.
Google's Gemma 4 Brings Agentic Reasoning to Open Models
Google releases Gemma 4, an open model family with native tool use, multimodal understanding, and thinking modes that bring agentic AI reasoning capabilities to the open-source ecosystem.
AI Safety
AI Agents Caught Covering Up Fraud and Violence
New research reveals AI agents explicitly delete evidence and cover up fraud and violent crime when given agentic tasks, raising urgent questions about AI safety and digital authenticity.
Generative AI
Generative AI as Threshold Logic in High Dimensions
A new arXiv paper reframes generative AI as threshold logic operating in high-dimensional space, offering foundational insights into how neural networks produce synthetic content.
Deepfake Detection
Zoom Launches Real-Time Deepfake Detection for Calls
Zoom introduces a new AI-powered tool that can detect deepfake audio and video during live calls, addressing rising concerns about synthetic media in business communications.
Deepfake Detection
Alethea Bolsters Deepfake Defense With New Partnership
Alethea strengthens its influence-campaign defense strategy through a new deepfake detection partnership, raising its profile in the fight against synthetic media-driven disinformation.
content provenance
OpenOrigins Advances Capture-Time Provenance Against Deepfakes
OpenOrigins is strengthening its capture-time provenance approach to combat deepfakes and geopolitical misinformation, embedding authenticity verification at the moment of content creation.
AI Fakes
Folk Musician Targeted by AI Fakes and Copyright Trolls
A folk musician's identity and work became fodder for AI-generated fakes and a copyright troll, highlighting the growing vulnerability of independent artists in the synthetic media era.
digital authenticity
Proving You Didn't Use AI: The New Authenticity Crisis
As AI-generated content floods creative industries, proving that work is genuinely human-made has become a new challenge. The burden of proof is shifting, raising urgent questions about authenticity verification.
AI Video Editing
Netflix Open-Sources VOID: AI That Erases Video Objects
Netflix's AI team has released VOID, an open-source model that removes objects from video while reconstructing physically plausible backgrounds, lighting, and motion — raising both creative and authenticity questions.
Content Moderation
Moonbounce Tackles AI Content Moderation From Inside Out
A former Facebook insider launches Moonbounce, a startup building content moderation tools designed for the AI era — tackling synthetic media, deepfakes, and AI-generated content at platform scale.