Only about a third of people can spot a deepfake — even after someone warns them one's coming. When nobody warns them at all, most still get fooled. Those aren't numbers from some distant lab. Researc

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A convincing fake of your boss's voice — the exact tone, the exact urgency — now costs about a dollar and thirty-three cents to make. Not thousands. Not a Hollywood studio. Roughly the price of a candy bar.

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In a test where two thousand people were told — flat out — to look for fakes, only one in a thousand could tell them all apart. One. In. A. Thousand. And these weren't people caught off guard — they kne

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Some of these accounts have tens of thousands of followers. Thirty-one thousand. Eighty-eight thousand. And the person in the videos? He doesn't exist. Not a single frame of him is real. If you've ever gotten a flirty m

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Twenty-eight states now want proof of your kid's age before they download a single app. And to prove that age, someone has to hand over an I.D. — or personal data — to the app store itself. Texas star

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Twenty photos. Fifteen minutes. That's all a stranger needs to turn your child's birthday picture into something you can't unsee. According to Britain's Internet Watch Foundation, A.I.-generated child abuse videos jumped

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Nearly nine in ten older adults say they're worried about A.I. scams — voice cloning, fake videos, a stranger wearing a loved one's face. But almost all of them are bracing for the wrong threat. They're learning to spot the fake. And that's e

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That little spinner you stare at while an app says "verifying your identity"? In the few seconds it spins, it's not just comparing your selfie to your photo I.D. It's quietly running about seven separate checks — and most of them, you'll neve

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An employee at a global company sat in a video meeting with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. Everyone on the call looked normal. Everyone sounded right. Every single face was fake — and by the end of that meeting, the compa

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Back in 2/3/2021 , ESPN brought two dead men back to life on your television. Al Davis, the late founder of the Raiders. Pete Rozelle, the former N.F.L. commissioner. Both gone for years — and

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