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Table of Contents

• Examples
• General Articles and Opinion
• Financial Fraud
• Legal and Regulatory Issues
• Non-consensual pornography and intimidation
• Combating Deepfakes
• Courses for more exploration
• My Presentations and SlideDecks

General Examples

• You Won’t Believe What Obama Says In This Video! (YouTube: Buzzfeed From 5 years ago)
• The Chronicles of DeepTomCruise  (Youtube: VFXChris Ume)

Political Examples

• Robocall to New Hampshire voters faked Biden’s voice (used to suppress turnout)

Prof C’s Examples

In this example I used a program called Descript to alter what I had said from this original audio about how I love hedgehogs:

To one about how I hate them:

In this case, I used the same program to make up something entirely from scratch, asking my mom for her license number: 

How deepfakes are generated

• Deepfake: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Medium)
• This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations (rest of the world)
• Everyone will be able to clone their voice in the future (The Verge)

General Articles and Opinion

• The State of Deepfakes (Sensity)
• Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared. (Forbes)
• What are deepfakes – and how can you spot them? (The Guardian)
• ‘Deepfake’ videos: to believe or not believe? (FT $)
• The year deepfakes went mainstream (MIT Technology Review)
• Deepfakes threaten to inflate the ‘liar’s dividend’ (FT $)
• How ‘deepfakes’ can help data protection (DW)

Financial and Political Fraud

• Someone Used Deepfake Tech to Invent a Fake Journalist (The Byte)
• Bank Robbers Steal $35 Million by Deepfaking Boss’s Voice (The Byte)
• Banks work with fintechs to counter ‘deepfake’ fraud (FT $)
• Can you believe your eyes? How deepfakes are coming for politics (FT $)
• Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here. (Venture Beat)
• Deepfake propaganda is not a real problem (The Verge)
• Faces Are the Next Target for Fraudsters (WSJ)

Legal and Regulatory Issues

• Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security (California Law Review)
• Rebalancing our regulatory response to Deepfakes with performers’ rights – Mathilde Pavis, 2021 (Convergence)
• California Deepfake Laws First in Country to Take Effect (Akin Group)
• Lawmakers plunge into “deepfake” war (Axios)
• Can the Government Regulate Deepfakes? (WSJ)

Non-consensual pornography and intimidation

• Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally ban it. (MIT Technology Review)
• A horrifying new AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click (MIT Technology Review)
• I was vomiting: Journalist Rana Ayyub reveals horrifying account of deepfake porn plot (India Today)

Combating Deepfakes

• Facebook, Michigan State Develop Deepfake Detection Technique (WSJ)
• In a battle of AI versus AI, researchers are preparing for the coming wave of deepfake propaganda (The Conversation)
• Facebook scientists say they can now tell where deepfakes have come from (CNBC)
• Cyber security companies race to combat ‘deepfake’ technology  (FT $)
• How to counter deepfakery in the eye of the digital deceiver (FT $)
• Letter: Finland shows that education is best tool to fight ‘deepfakes’ (FT $)
• A new deepfake detection tool should keep world leaders safe—for now (MIT Technology Review)
• We cannot rely on a digital A-Team to fight deepfakes (FT $)
• Behind the Tom Cruise deepfakes that can evade disinformation tools (FT $)
• Banks work with fintechs to counter ‘deepfake’ fraud (FT $)

Courses for more exploration

• MIT: Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes.

My Presentations and SlideDecks