Artificial intelligence product synthetic media and its most destructive type, deepfake, is now a more useful weapon for online political operations of the digital age. Moreover, deepfake cyber-attacks can be easily anonymised, making victims of dirty disinformation wars unsolved deep in history.
Deepfake videos, which seem real, are going viral and get tens of thousands of clicks on each share. However, when attempts to produce hyper-realistic deepfake videos turn from rating anxiety to the goal of disinformation based on social engineering, its impact on the masses will not be fun at all; on the contrary, it will have extremely devastating consequences. However, when attempts to produce hyper-realistic deepfake videos turn from rating anxiety to the goal of disinformation based on social engineering, its impact on the masses will not be fun at all.
Digital synthetic reality, taking advantage of the pandemic, enters our lives with mixed reality solutions. In this way, synthetic ingredients bring us together in our own physical environments, holographically. Crossing physical distances, maintaining life face-to-face as before without risking contact, may be attractive to all of us. But when synthetic reality surrounds life and makes perception dependent, what kind of world will we wake up to?
If the target of cyber attackers is a bank, central bank, or the entire financial system, it is a national security hazard. Synthetic media and its most powerful and convincing weapon, deepfake, can encourage and make more possible large-scale attacks targeting financial infrastructure. In this case, starting with less developed economies, political attacks that can deal major blows to the global free market economy may also be on the agenda.
Cyber fraudsters have had no trouble finding crowds for the past two years who believe every time Elon Musk distributes bitcoin through Twitter. By producing deepfake audio and video, Bitcoin scammers will be able to make any identity they want even more believable, especially Elon Musk. How are tech geeks ready to take the bait, then, to stop themselves from getting caught up in millions more?
It should never be forgotten that in the eternal reality of the heavenly religions, creator of all creatures is one. Here, AI-oriented algorithms and robotic technologies transform this single and unchangeable reality into a more flexible perception with digital illusion. It reveals a person who has passed away fictionally in digital life, at first with his/her voice and gestures. Perhaps as deep learning algorithms improve, fiction will no longer be needed after a while.
There is no problem in sight. Everything was included in the specifications of the competition. All competitors, including our deepware.ai team, who participated in the competition on behalf of Zemana and outdistanced nearly 2000 participants, accepted the conditions from the beginning. But after the competition, it is not possible to ignore the big and disturbing contradiction as we can say “would that happen too?” This was the first and biggest competition to promote and support the development of detection models to protect the online world from the deepfake threat. Of course, it should not be difficult to understand and accept that the malicious deepfake developers should face consequences that can contribute to reverse engineering processes. Deepfake videos whose algorithms had not been …
Anyone with an average intelligence and minimal life experience knows that you should not expose yourself to things that may be dangerous when misused. This applies to medicine or a licensed weapon. Even a very innocent confectionery can lead to deadly consequences when it is not consumed in a healthy or safe way. We place these things in safe places out of the reach of those at risk, and we take measures to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. We do not use them in a dangerous and wrong way. We know not to put an emergency bag or medicine cabinet in an easily-accessible place. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital lifestyle is being pumped into society …
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 …
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 …