Newsletter Archives
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Is the woman in this video real or a deepfake? Now find out.
PUBLIC DEFENDER
By Brian Livingston
There’s been an explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) that can create fake videos and compose passable writing samples. These computer-generated outputs are now good enough to fool the average person, who may absorb social media with an uncritical eye.
The major media have exhaustively (but superficially) written about these AI programs. So I won’t bore you with the mind-numbing details of exactly how they work.
Instead, I’ll tell you how to detect them and — hopefully — protect yourself against fakes of all kinds.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.04.0, 2023-01-23).
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Take a selfie – NOW!
LEGAL BRIEF
By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.
Deepfakes are a growing problem. Could taking a selfie be your best defense?
In the last column, we saw why law must lag technology. It must, because legislators have no better crystal ball than the rest of us — and judges, faced with the task of extrapolating existing statutes to situations that were not foreseen, reach different conclusions as to how to draw the curve. Therefore, a period of uncertainty — until a legislature reacts or a judicial consensus is reached or imposed by the Supreme Court — is inevitable.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.45.0 (2021-11-22).