A finance worker in Hong Kong sat in a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. He followed their instructions and wired about twenty-five million dollars. Every single per

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Two men were arrested this week by federal agents in New York. The charge — publishing A.I.-generated intimate images of real people without their consent. It's the first time anyone's been arrested

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A well-crafted synthetic voice fools trained human listeners more often than a coin flip. According to peer-reviewed research on deepfake audio, when people tried to identify state-of-the-art synthetic speech, their aver

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A single deepfake scam campaign on YouTube racked up roughly two hundred million views last year. Two hundred million. And now YouTube is handing every creator over eighteen a tool to scan whether th

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A deepfake video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spread across social media, claiming Italy had completely severed diplomatic ties with Israel. Detection tools flagged it as A.I.-generated with confidence levels

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In January, a high school principal in Baltimore had his life turned upside down. Someone created a fake audio clip of him making racist remarks. It went viral. He was placed on administrative leave.

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A security firm called GetReal recently surveyed organizations across multiple industries and found that eight out of ten have already encountered A.I. deepfakes or impersonation attempts. Nearly half said they deal with

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A video lands on your desk showing a suspect confessing to a crime. The lighting's even, the face is perfectly framed, skin tones match the background flawlessly. And that perfection — that polish —

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N.I.S.T. just tested how well A.I. can guess your age from a photo. The best algorithm in the bunch missed by less than three and a half years on average. But for some groups of people, that miss got

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Every time you open a banking app and snap a selfie to prove you're you, a decision gets made in about two to five seconds. Match, or no match. Your account opens, or it doesn't.

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