Exposing the deception of DeepFakes

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• The Dark Knight’s Tale (DeepFake)
• Official PyTorch Implementation of StarGAN - CVPR 2018
• Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models (YouTube)
• Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models (PDF)
• MelNet: A Generative Model for Audio in the Frequency Domain
• Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video
• Better Language Models and Their Implications (GPT-2)
• Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’
• The National Security Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, Manipulated Media, and “Deepfakes” – 13 June 2019
• Student with access to TPU credits reproduced GPT2-1.5B and plan to release model
• Papers With Code: fake+detection
• In Ictu Oculi: Exposing AI Generated Fake Face Videos by Detecting Eye Blinking
• A Retrospective Analysis of the Fake News Challenge Stance Detection Task
• Deepfake debunking tool may protect presidential candidates. For now. Sometimes
• The Era of Fake Videos is Here
• S.3805 - Malicious Deep Fake Prohibition Act of 2018
• Practical AI episode #47 - GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my!
• Synthetic Realities: Deep Learning for Detecting AudioVisual Fakes
• Machine Learning for fake news detection: theory and practice

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