Donald Trump, in an episode of Breaking Bad, explaining how to launder money. Indeed, it is not at all something that could have happened: it is a popular fake video. A YouTuber swapped the face of actor Bob Odenkirk and replaced it with the face of the American president. This is a type of video generated with artificial intelligence known as deepfake. This, increasingly massive, has captured the attention and concern of authorities around the world. They fear the effects that these fake videos could have on future election campaigns. Read more: This sinister video in which Mark Zuckerberg is seen saying that he has control of "billions of stolen data" shows the danger of 'deep fakes' But the immediate effects have already been noticeable. According to Deeptrace, a Dutch cybersecurity company specialized in this type of videos, the main victims of these deepfakes are not politicians: they are women.
In a study collected by ZDNet , Deeptrace details an "explosion" of this type of videos on the network: in December 2018 there were 8,000 of this type of short videos and today there are almost 15,000. The company goes further: they have been viewed more than 134 million times and 96% of these thousands of deepfake videos are pornographic. An "unintentional pornography" or "deepfake pornography Middle East Phone Number List that "targets and harms only women," Deeptrace details in its study. Read more: Facebook will allocate more than $10 million to fight deepfakes: it will hire actors to help researchers Henry Adjer is one of the researchers at this Dutch company and tells ZDNet that most of these pornographic videos affect celebrities: many creators of this type of content place the faces of celebrities in videos with explicit sexual content. Although the state of California has banned political deepfakes during the election season, as The Verge reports , and many experts consulted by CNBC suggest that this could be "the big problem" of the US presidential elections in 2020, the truth is which at the moment is only harming women.
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