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What are deepfakes? How fake AI-powered media can warp our perception of reality
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What are deepfakes? How fake AI-powered media can warp our perception of reality

Source: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/what-are-deepfakes-how-fake-ai-powered-media-can-warp-our-perception-reality Parent: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/nasir-memon

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What are deepfakes? How fake AI-powered media can warp our perception of reality

Published:

April 5, 2023

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Business Insider


Nasir Memon, vice dean for student and academic affairs and member of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU Tandon, which uses AI to generate completely new video or audio that can portray something that didn't actually occur. “I think the solution overall is not technology based, but instead it's education, awareness, the right business models, incentives, policies, laws. …The problem with detection is that the burden is on the defender, I have to analyze every single image in every possible way. But in security, you want to do it the opposite way."

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Nasir Memon

Professor; Dean of Engineering at NYU Shanghai

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