US EditionThe rise of deepfake scams — and how not to fall for one
- In early 2025, former meteorologist Smith stopped appearing on a CBS-affiliated Tennessee station after deepfake images of her were used in sextortion scams online.
- This decision followed months of Smith's fight against fake explicit videos and accounts that distorted her face onto nude bodies to extort money.
- She testified before Tennessee lawmakers, supporting the Preventing Deepfake Images Act, which recently passed the Senate and is expected to be signed into law.
- The FBI reported that more than 34,000 people were victims of sextortion in 2023, and Smith expressed that those impersonating her online are attempting to hijack her narrative, which she firmly insists belongs to her alone.
- The bill aims to empower victims by enabling lawsuits against nonconsensual image sharing, marking a key step amid rising financial sextortion targeting Americans and minors.
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Deepfakes Now Outsmarting Detection By Mimicking Heartbeats
Digital doppelgängers just developed a pulse. Researchers hunting deepfakes long relied on a seemingly foolproof detection method: AI couldn't fake the subtle skin color changes caused by your pulse. That certainty has now collapsed, as scientists discover modern deepfakes inadvertently preserve the heartbeat patterns from their source videos, making our most trusted detection tools suddenly unreliable. The post Deepfakes Now Outsmarting Detecti…
Why Are Deepfakes Everywhere? Can They Be Stopped?
The internet is awash in deepfakes — audio, pictures or video made using artificial intelligence tools in which people appear to do or say things they didn’t, be somewhere they weren’t, or that change their appearance. Some involve nudification, where photos are altered to depict someone unclothed. Other deepfakes are deployed to scam consumers, or to damage the reputations of politicians and other people in the public eye.
How to Teach Kids The Importance of Digital Privacy
If you haven’t seen it, there’s an unsettling two-minute video circulating online called “A Message from Ella.” A young girl stares anxiously into the camera as she explains to her parents how identity thieves destroyed her credit, scammers cloned her voice to commit fraud, and an AI-generated deepfake featuring her face swept through her school, wrecking her reputation. Ella isn’t real—the clip is part of a European online privacy-awareness cam…
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