GOP politician claims that the George Floyd klling was staged and evidence is a deepfake. (2020)
GOP House candidate Winne Heartstrong publishes “George Floyd is alive” on Twitter along with 23-page document claiming the video of Floyd’s murder is a deepfake. Twitter removes post.
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Military-broadcasted political confession in Myanmar mistakened by public as a deepfake. (2021)
Myanmar’s military broadcasts video of Yangon’s Chief Ministor Phyo Min Thein’s confessing he bribed Aung San Suu Kyi, but public mislabels it a deepfake.
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An Indian politician is using deepfake technology to win new voters (2020)
President of India’s BJP uses deepfake critizing his political opponent in 20 languages, the first use of political party to use a deepfake for campaigning.
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Australia’s First Deepfake Political Ad is Here and it’s Extremely Cursed (2020)
Right-wing advocacy group Advance Australia posts falsified video of a press conference with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
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Murdered Mexican journalist Javier Valdez synthetically resurrected to demand justice (2020)
Advocacy group “ressurects” Mexican journalist Javier Valdez for the #SeguimosHablando campaign against violence against the press.
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Parents of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver bring their son back to life to encourage votes for gun safety (2020)
Advocacy group brings Joaquin Oliver “back to life” for a gun-safety voting campaign.
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Deepfake tech used to share powerful message for Victoria Police (2020)
Victoria Police brings a “live message” from the late senior constable Laurie Fox for the “Beyond the Call” campaign about mental health and suicide awareness.
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The deepfake video where Johnson and Corbyn endorse each other (2019)
Think Tank Future Advocacy created a deepfake of opponents Boris Johnson endorsing Jeremy Corbyn for prime minister to raise awareness of the dangers of disinformation.
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Canada’s Green Party edits photo of leader holding single-use cup (2019)
Canada’s Green Party pre-emptively edits a photo to reflect its leader Elizabeth May using a plastic reusable cup instead of disposable (and compostable) cup.
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Video of Donald Trump endorsing Nigerian presidential candidate is fake (2019)
Fake video of Trump endorsing Nigerian candidate Abubakar plays on famous meme of doctored Trumpian executive orders.
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Morphed Image Viral As Mamata Banerjee Faking Injury – BOOM (2021)
An edited image of West Bengal chief minister with claims that she is faking her foot injury was leveraged to gain voters.
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South Africa: Released audio from ANC is edited to influence election (2021)
A recording of a conversation between officials at the African National Congress (ANC) has been leaked and manipulated in advance of the party’s elective conference.
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Journalist in India Targetted for in Misogynistic Deepfake Pornography Attack piloted by BJP politicians. (2018)
Journalist Rana Ayyub was targetted in a misogynistic deepfake pornography attack for speaking out against the child sex abuses of national politican backed by the BJP in India.
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Study reveals that 96% of Deepfake Videos on the internet are used for nonconsensual porn (2019)
A study by Deeptrace Labs reveals that “the vast majority of deepfakes on the internet – nearly 96% – are used in nonconsensual porn” usually in weaponized ways against female figures.
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Massive nonconsensual deepfake pornography circulated in unlawful Telegram chatroom “Nth Room” in South Korea. (2020)
The “Nth Room” case is a criminal case of cyber sex trafficking, blackmail, and sexual exploitation using deepfakes and IRL harassment and intimidation tactics against women and minors. Head organizer Cho Ju-Bin has been arrested for blackmail and multiple accounts of sexual harassment.
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Lip-syncing app Wombo shows the messy, meme-laden potential of deepfakes (2021)
The Wombo App enables free, one-click deepfakes to be made by uploading an image and a song for it to lipsync to.
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Phil Eyr deepfake ad featuring opponent mark gaetz (2020)
Phil Ehr creates a deepfake of opponent Matt Gaetz to “combat” disinformation.
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Trump retweets crude ‘deepfake’ video of Joe Biden (2020)
Trump retweets a deepfake of Joe Biden licking his lips.
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Trump Facebook ad making images of Biden look older (2020)
Trump’s campaign launched a series of Facebook Ads featuring a manipulated photo of opponent Joe Biden appearing older.
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Edited video of Trump ‘bald’ beneath a MAGA cap (crude video edit) (2019)
A manipulated video depicts a bald Trump whose toupee falls off.
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Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened (2018)
A government photography edited offiial photographs of Donald Trump’s inauguration to make the crowd appear larger.
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Subtle edits made in photograph of Trump to make him look more overweight (2020)
A photograph of Donald Trump at a golf course was doctored to look more overweight – “Fat Trump”
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Trump retweets crudely edited CNN clip of ‘toddler running away from racist baby’ made by carpedonktum (2020)
Trump shares a video of a fake CNN report of a “terrified toddler” running from “racist baby” while ironically tweeting about fake news.
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Obama photoshop shaking hand with Rouhani, shared by Republic Gossar (2020)
Arizona U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a fake image of Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shaking hands amidst escalating tensions between U.S. and Iran over the U.S. airstrike.
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Satirical deepfake video of former Italian PM Matteo Renzi sparks debate in Italy (2019)
An Italian satirical news show broadcast several deepfake videos of Italian politicians saying inappropriate things, including the former prime minister Matteo Renzi insulting other politicians.
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Climate action group create deepfake of Belgian PM Sophie Wilmes connecting Covid-19 to the climate crisis (2020)
Extinction Rebellion Belgian create a deepfake of Belgian PM Sophie Wilmes, without mentioning it’s fake, as part of the #TellTheTruthBelgium campaign to increase pressure for climate action.
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The art project Deep Reckonings uses deepfakes to imagine controversial public figures taking responsibility for their actions (2019)
Deep Reckonings, by artist Stephanie Lepp, is a series of explicitly-marked deepfake videos that imagine the most morally courageous versions of controversial public figures including Brett Kavanaugh, Alex Jones, Mark Zuckerberg, and Donald Trump.
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Cameroon ‘deepfake’ satire of French ambassador marked as partially false by French fact checkers (2020)
Following an alleged meeting between French ambassador Christophe Guilhou and the president of Cameroonian Paul Biya, a deepfake of Guilhou acknowledging colonial relations.
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Greta’s Famous Speech sounds a bit different (Belgian Satire show comedy ad made by Chris Ume). (2020)
Belgian satirical TV show Beste Kijkers created a deepfake of Greta Thunberg’s speech to make a joke of her serious disposition.
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Russia Today creates provocative deepfakes of Trump starting a new job at the organisation (2020)
Russia Today creates a satirical deepfake of Donald Trump working at their office, during the U.S. election period.
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Russia Today creates deepfakes of Merkel, Macron, Johnson, Trump and Biden for 15th birthday ad campaign (2020)
Russia Today celebrates its 15 years on air with a deepfake video including world leaders such as Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and Joe Biden.
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Deepfake presidential debate ad shows Putin warning about US democracy (2020)
An advertisement for the presidential debate between Biden and Trump featured deepfake representations of world leaders such as Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin with the aim to increase civic participation, but was pulled from major media platforms (MSNBC, CNN, Fox) without explanation last minute.
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Southpark creators’ Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy: a terrific deepfake satire show (2020)
The satirical web series Sassy Justice, produced by the creators of South Park, uses deepfake technology to place unrelated celebrities and polititians in dialogue in the fictional world of a TV reporter.
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Bill Posters’ Spectre- Trump, Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian (2019)
Spectre is an art installation by Bill Posters that addresses the mechanics of the digital influence industry, creating “deep fake” avatars of celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Freddy Mercury, and more.
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Bill Posters’ Deepfake Bezos Amazon rainforest campaign (2019)
GREEN HEART is a fictional Amazon Prime series created by new media artist Bill Posters in which a deepfake of Jeff Bezos dedicates a fraction of his fortune to help the Amazon Forest in a 25-year climate emergency fund.
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UK’s Channel 4 airs deepfake of Queen for their 2020 Alternative Christmas Message (2021)
Channel 4 create deepfakes on their YouTube, including one that doctors the British Queen’s Christmas message.
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French charity Solidarité Sida released a deepfake of Donald Trump hailing the eradication of AIDS (2019)
Prior to the meeting of world leaders for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in Lyon, French charity Solidarité Sida released a deepfake of Donald Trump hailing the eradication of AIDS.
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MIT and UNICEF’s Deep Empathy project simulates how cities around the world would look in the midst of conflicts such as the Syrian war. (2017)
With the research aim of evoking empathy for the Syrian refugee crisis through AI-generated imagery, Deep Empathy combines the familiarity of urban cities across the globe with realities of conlict from war.
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Apologia AI uses deepfakes to envision world leaders’ apologies for failing to tackle climate change before it was too late. (2020)
Apologia AI is a project by Alethea.ai that uses satirical deepfakes of world leaders such as Australian PM Scott Morrison apologizing to raise awareness about the climate crisis.
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Deepfake of David Beckham petitions to end malaria in nine different languages. (2019)
Malaria Must Die launches ‘The Power of the Voice’ campaign in which David Beckham speaks nine languages to advocate for action at the Global Fund conference.
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Belgian socialist party creates deepfake of Trump suggesting Belgium leaves the Paris Climate agreement- fooling many viewers (2018)
The Flemish Socialist Party created a deepfake video of Trump to advocate for climate action, including a petition for investing in renewable energies and closing the Doel nuclear plant in Flanders.
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Artist Anna Engelhart creates deepfake artwork and investigation into Russia Crimea bridge as ‘adversarial architecture’, including a fake RT report featuring deepfake voice audio and video of Putin. (2020)
Artist Anna Engelhardt creates a fake press report on the construction of the Crimean bridge, paired with online workshops that teach online visitors to creat their own deepfakes.
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Satirical site “fake fake news” uses to GPT2 to generate fake satirical stories trained on stories from The Onion (2021)
Fake Fake News (FFN) is a satirical news site that publishes A.I. generated news articles to serve as educational samples to study text generation and entertainment.
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Dancing in a gym and ‘erotic’ footage from a banya: Putin deep fake videos emerge on TikTok (2021)
An anonymous user set up a TikTok channel called “First Person” with over 4.7 million subscribers which posts silly deepfake videos of Putin dancing, at the gym, at a Russian banya, amongst other activities.
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AI consultants Dessa create realistic “faux Joe Rogan” synthetic voice generator (2019)
Three Machine Learning Engineers at Dessa (Hashiam Kadhim, Rayhane Mama, Joseph Palermo) produced the most realistic AI simulation of a voice heard to date. It’s the voice of someone you’ve probably heard of before: Joe Rogan.
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A Site Faking Jordan Peterson’s Voice Shuts Down After Peterson Decries Deepfakes (2019)
The owner of NotJordanPeterson.com, a website for generating convincing clips of Jordan Peterson saying whatever you want using AI, shut down their creation this week after the real Peterson announced his displeasure and raised the possibility of legal action.
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Jay Z vocal synthesis copyright takedown attempt (2020)
Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z has become an unlikely source of inspiration within the budding community of artificial intelligence-powered impersonation, known colloquially as deepfakes, and the rap icon’s record label has taken notice and issued copyright strikes to shut some of it down.
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Project Gucciberg offers classic audiobooks read by an AI deepfake of Gucci Mane (2021)
Project Gucciberg is the latest drop from viral factory MSCHF, and it does exactly that. Using machine learning, MSCHF created an audio deepfake of Gucci Mane reading a selection of classic texts from Little Women to Beowulf.
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Those popular Tom Cruise deepfakes on TikTok are unsettlingly realistic (2021)
A visual effects specialist from Belgium named Chris Ume used deepfake technology to create compelling clips that look just like they feature Tom Cruise.
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Winnie the Pooh Jinping meets with Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam (2020)
A Youtube Deepfake video of Winnie the Pooh Jinping meeting with Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam
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Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh Dancing to Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf (2020)
A deepfake video of Xi Jinping on Winnie the Pooh dancing to Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf.
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Joe Biden’s voice synthesized using an AI model. (2020)
Joe Biden’s voice was synthesized using an AI model trained on his speech patterns. While the voice may be computer generated, the script is written by something vaguely resembling a human.
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#Deepfake parodiando a El Equipo A con Pablo Casado, Pedro Sánchez, Pablo Iglesias, Albert Rivera y Santiago Abascal de protagonistas. Agradecimientos a Iperov, quien puso esta magia al alcance de todos. (2019)
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Featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live! is a deep fake – Trump & Pence on RuPaul’s Drag Race (2019)
A threat to the 2020 election could be these so-called “Deepfake videos.” These are clips that are manipulated to make it look as if someone did or said something they did not.
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin re-imagined as Dr Evil and Scott from Austin Powers (2020)
Uploaded by a Youtube channel named DeepFaker (with 6000 subscribers), this video shows Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin re-imagined as Dr Evil and Scott from Austin Powers
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Navalni as Putin utilizing a full head swap (2020)
Head replace using DeepFaceLab.
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In Event of Moon Disaster (2019)
In July 1969, much of the world celebrated the “giant leap for mankind” that the successful moon landing constituted. Fifty years later, nothing is quite so straightforward. In Event of Moon Disaster illustrates the possibilities of deepfake technologies by reimagining this seminal event.
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Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
A new documentary highlights how the controversial technology can protect people by using AI to overlay faces of vlunteers on top of LGBTQ survivors of abuse in Chechnya whose lives could be in danger.
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Greetings from the Past
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Some Deepfaker on YouTube Spent Seven Days Fixing the Shitty De-Aging in The Irishman (2020)
Deepfake Youtube video portrays a more realistic appearance of Robert De Niro as a twenty-and-thirtysomething-year-old-man, something the movie itself failed to achieve effectively.
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Deepfake drag show explores AI’s social biases through interactive performances (2021)
The Zizi Show invites audiences to choose a deepfake drag artiste and performance to watch. As the digital bodies move across the virtual stage, viewers can switch between the different AI identities to expose the methods used to generate them.
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An exhibition exploring questions about the order of sexual imbalance and split between active/male and passive/female.
The Machine Gaze is an exhibition which explores the above questions through cutting edge technology, producing a body of work immediately recognisable and yet utterly alien, which provides a timely critique of what we’re teaching our machines, and how this might play out.
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Deepfake Salvador Dalí takes selfies with museum visitors (2019)
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Albert Einstein predicts Coronavirus in 1950. (2020)
Uploaded by a Youtube channel named VFXChris Ume, Albert Einstein predicts Coronavirus in 1950.
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Fact check: Prank video does not show poll worker destroying a Trump ballot (2020)
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White House social media director tweets manipulated video of Biden (2020)
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Twitter is taking down a fake Joe Biden ad amplified by Trump campaign staffers (2020)
Listed for the role of the twitter ecosystem in tampering with fake news
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A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate. Twitter verified it (2020)
Verification and the facade of truth versus brand recognition
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CNN banner did not say Boulder shooting suspect was ‘morally white’ (2021)
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Democrats Call For Flags To Be Flown At Half-Mast To Grieve Death Of Soleimani (2020)
A satire piece believed to be real
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As fake news takes over Facebook feeds, many are taking satire as fact (2016)
A lie can spread on Facebook before the truth has even been posted, and even the most savvy news consumers can be tricked. What can we do about it?
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An AI to build a tool that lets you imagine the impact of the climate crisis (2021)
Visualizations created using generative adversarial networks (GANs) that allow a computer to create and transform images to make them look as though a real location has experienced the effects of climate change.
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Art project on police-related fatal encounters (2021)
AI that leverages large sets of historical data and statistical models to forecast the likelihood of future crime.
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Slow, synthetic, cinema series manipulated by machines trained to lie. (2020)
Artists Dejha Ti and Ania Catherine use deepfakes to contribute to the global discussion about the unequal privilege to invent “truths” by depicting 9 scenes that never happened.
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