?? Government-Sponsored Deepfakes, Voice Fraud, RD at SXSW

Welcome to the Reality Defender Newsletter.?Each week, our team reports on the latest findings, advancements, and incidents in the world of deepfakes and generative AI.

Everything in AI moves faster than the world can keep up. Though this can make for some incredible breakthroughs on a technological and societal level, it can also create immense challenges, provide destructive new tools to bad actors, and post a negative impact on the well-being of many.

We built Reality Defender not just to counteract the negative impacts and incidents of dangerous deepfakes and generative AI, but to stop them before any damage is done and prevent similar events from every happening. As our team of leading AI researchers work around the clock on this goal, we will share our findings and research with you here every week.

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State-Sponsored Deepfakes

Venezuelan state-owned television station VTV is using computer-generated avatars (based off Synthesia), to present positive news coverage about Venezuela from a supposedly independent news outlet called House of News.

The use of AI appears to be a new turn in the government's continued disinformation campaigns.?The Washington Post?has the full story.

Deepfaked Audio Continues to Go Viral

AI-generated audio tools used to mimic well-known individuals isn't new, but it's becoming increasingly more widespread and dangerous across social media and message boards like 4Chan.

While some content created using these tools are benign, the technology has already been used to make Emma Watson read a section of Mein Kampf,?according to a new?Buzzfeed?report.

Exposing Political Misinformation in a Leading NATO Country

Reality Defender?helped a?senior government official from a leading NATO country?detect and disprove deepfake videos that falsely depicted them in a negative light.

Learn every step that was taken to help the country and how we can replicate it for increasingly more advanced attacks in our latest case study.

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Deepfake of the Week

A Twitter user depicted Sen. Elizabeth Warren discussing how "allowing Republicans to vote could threaten the integrity of the election and the safety of the electorate." She never said such a thing,?according to a report in?Newsweek.

Reality Defender Events

Reality Defender will be in?Austin, TX for SXSW this week?as part of both the?Innovation Awards?and?SXSW Pitch. Please come stop by and say hi at our booth, or if you'd like to meet us in Austin,?contact us here to get in touch.

More News

• Chicago is in the midst of a contentious mayoral election, which is now seeing?deepfakes of candidates spread on social media. (CBS News)
• As deepfakes rise in complexity and abundance,?deepfaked pornography is also seeing a surge. Yet the conversation around it can be as harmful as the content itself. (Wired)
• The U.S. is not sending troops to Ukraine,?contradicting everything a deepfake of President Biden said. (Newsweek)
• ChatGPT apparently gets a pass?when it comes to International Baccalaureate essays. (The Guardian)
• OpenAI has new?APIs for ChatGPT, but at a cost. (The Verge)
• What is Ernie, and how is?China's answer to ChatGPT?different? (Rest of World)
• Italy's film translation/dubbing industry is?fighting back against the use of AI?in their work. (Variety)

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