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Can Deepfakes Defense Be Personalized?

Can Deepfakes Defense Be Personalized?

We tried to explain in the last article how fake synthetic media, produced with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and known as deepfakes, is a great cyber threat to individuals and institutions, as well as to national security in their fight against enemies and terrorism. So, just as science is trying to develop measures against and solutions for COVID-19 to protect human existence and health on the earth, the online world is also trying to fight deepfakes. Particularly institutions that are at higher risk of deepfakes, such as the Armed Forces, are trying to strengthen their defenses with personalized solutions until an effective cybersecurity model is developed. Do biometric videos and audio data recordings protect against deepfakes? Cybersecurity initiatives …

Do Deepfakes Blind AI-Aided National Security?

Do Deepfakes Blind AI-Aided National Security

Artificial intelligence (AI) is defined as the ability of computers and machines to perform tasks that traditionally required human intelligence. Basic AI technologies are developed as computer systems that perform certain tasks with the help of artificial neural networks (similar to the human brain), mathematical optimization, and statistical methods. AI often uses large amounts of data to train and feed algorithms that perform human cognition-related tasks and processes. Most of the current AI technologies serve a “narrow” purpose, designed to perform a particular task, such as identifying objects in images. AI technologies for specific narrow targets are increasingly being used, especially in the field of national security. Most of the AI and political and scientific articles focus on deadly autonomous …

Do You Need A Synthetic Brand Face? Here Is the Deepfake Market

Deepfake Market Research

Innovation is part of marketing. Seeing as there is competition between brands, advertisers rely on innovation to succeed against their competitors. We mentioned in the previous article that deepfakes have become the rising star of marketing and advertising. By providing the greatest effect at the lowest cost in advertising campaigns, deepfakes have become an important marketing investment. The deepfake market did not delay in meeting the increasing synthetic media demand of the marketing sector. Now, it is no longer necessary to pay more money to a team of actors and put up with their whims. First edition deepfake corporate brand faces are much cheaper than real whimsical actors… Deepfake Market Research The research industry strategically contributes to the marketing and …

Commercial Film Sets are Transferred to the Computers; Marketing is Becoming Synthetic

Commercial Film Sets are Transferred to the Computers; Marketing is Becoming Synthetic

Technologies that reveal the most dangerous weapons against peace and security often manage to hide behind great benefits. But they destroy more than they provide. Can nuclear medicine and nuclear power make amends for the sin of nuclear weapons? Looking at the benefits of the observation of agricultural lands or search-and-rescue activities, can we say that unmanned aerial vehicles are not digital weapons that are managed from a desk, like in digital war games? Cyberweapons developed with artificial intelligence (AI) technology are not different from them. Deepfakes, which we describe in each sentence with the words “threat” and “danger,” disclose synthetic miracles that manipulate people’s perceptions of the media. Deepfakes have provided hope for the marketing world, which is losing …

Do You Have Your Anti-Deepfake Protocol Ready?

Do You Have Your Anti-Deepfake Protocol Ready?

This question may seem to be a cause for concern for companies and, in a wider sense, corporations (since protocols are more crucial to corporate quality standards). However, when it comes to quality of life, individuals may soon have to ask the same question. You must have a protocol—even if not on paper—on how to act properly against foreseeable risks so as to preserve your quality of life. Most of the time, we know instinctively what to do in the event an elderly relative has a health problem, or your wife is going through pregnancy, or a relative has an accident or is dealing with a problem. But, are you ready for the greatest cyber-security risk of the era? Protocols …

Why We Must Provide Our Own Security in the Wild West of Deepfakes?

Why We Must Provide Our Own Security in the Wild West of Deepfakes?

Everyone everywhere is as familiar with the Wild West as they are with Wild Capitalism. Some know these precarious lands from history books, but most have learned about them in Hollywood Westerns. Although there is a sheriff in town, everyone must provide their own security. Danger could come from any direction. A knock on your door could be violent felons wanting your horses, or savage Native Americans whose lands you are after. Also, psychopathic killers and perverts run rampant on those vast desolate mountains and hills. Neither homes nor trails are safe. You can lay down the law so long as you are tough enough to bring someone to their knees. That is why no-one walks around without a pistol …

Deepfake: Infodemic Spread Through Disinformation and Misinformation is More Fatal than the Pandemic

Infodemic Spread Through Disinformation and Misinformation is More Fatal than the Pandemic

We had barely become accustomed to the idea of a pandemic before an onslaught of new terms took over our lives on the online world and social media. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it was fighting not only the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic but also the infodemic: “Trust reliable news sources, not social media content,” it warned. The global outbreak, or the pandemic as it is called, shook us to the core. We have become familiar with the notion of an infodemic, meaning “disinformation of global information and news” on social media. COVID-19 is the first social-media-borne infodemic. No other fictitious/false wave of information or news has reached such a global scale before. The efforts of the WHO, in …

Can You Expose Deepfakes On Zoom?

Can You Expose Deepfakes On Zoom?

“Life under quarantine” brought on by the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation. The video conference app Zoom has largely replaced face-to-face meetings. Now there is one more thing that the world has to deal with: zoombombing! This may only be a foreshock. In the previous article, we raised the question, “Are you really meeting with the person you think you are meeting with on Zoom?” So, what happens if they are not the person you think you are talking to? What if the real tremors are still impending on Zoom? A security issue was bound to ensue once the number of Zoom users increased twenty-fold in three months. Zoombombing attacks, or Zoom raids, by uninvited guests …

Deepfake: The Art Of Twisting The Facts

The Art Of Twisting The Facts

A contradiction in terms creates ambiguity in perception. One word may carry a positive meaning for some, while implying something completely negative to others. The word fight may be understood as a struggle toward a righteous goal, or as the use of violence and force to subdue someone. Does dream mean the beginning of a path to something better or the pursuit of false hope with a flight from reality? Today, deepfake strives to grow into a digital art form with transparent and lawful examples when, in fact, it is perceived as a huge cyber-threat in the online world. Developers who use deepfake artworks not to attack someone but to trick audiences by evoking admiration are regarded as deepfake artists …

Can Facebook’s Ban On Deepfakes Prevent Disinformation?

Facebook appears to be leading the global social media fight against the deepfake threat. Facebook initiated a Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) organization with a $10-million award to promote the development of a tool that can detect manipulated synthetic media. It also announced that it would remove the artificial intelligence-based deepfake media content that poses a threat of disinformation. This may be considered a temporary and limited response. It may also be viewed as a conspicuous action against the great and imminent cyber-threat. Still, the question remains: Are Facebook’s measures, as well as Instagram’s, sufficient to slow the speed of fake media that aims to form a false public opinion? It has become a joke in the US media. The press …