Deepfake

Social media influencers have embraced artificial intelligence to spice up their content but they are also facing growing competition from AI-generated Instagramers, TikTokers and YouTubers.

Facebook and Instagram giant Meta on Friday said it will begin labeling AI-generated media beginning in May, as it tries to reassure users and governments over the risks of deepfakes.

OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners.

A model called "Voice Engine" can essentially duplicate someone's speech based on a 15-second audio sample, according to an OpenAI blog post sharing results of a small-scale test of the tool.

Cybercrime authorities are cautioning the public to be wary of the recent proliferation of fraudulent ads on social media and websites.

TikTok is taking measures to combat misinformation about the upcoming European Union elections, including setting up fact-checking hubs inside the app, the video-sharing platform said Wednesday in a blog post.

TikTok plans to launch local language in-app "election centers" next month for each of the 27 EU countries so that "people can easily separate fact from fiction."

Tech giants including Meta, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI are working on a pact to jointly crack down on AI content intended to deceive voters ahead of crucial elections around the world this year, companies involved said Tuesday.

Greece still has not many incidents of deepfakes but an increase has been observed, the head of the police's Department for Electronic Crime, Vassilis Papakostas, tells Kathimerini.

The phenomenon of CEOs or CFOs of major international businesses being deceived by individuals employing artificial intelligence to mimic the voice of the group's leader, successfully duping even seasoned company executives, has been observed for several years.

Online violence is disproportionately affecting women and girls, making them more vulnerable to crime than ever before, with cyberstalking among the most common type of threats they face that can leave a traumatizing mark on their minds.

Online violence targets women and young girls in many forms such as online stalking, exploitation, harassment, or producing deepfake pornography.

In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is "authentic."