Fraud with a deepfake: the dark side of artificial intelligence - CTOvision.com

Over the last few years, fake news has been a major worry. Fake news is believed to have played an important role in such important electoral processes as the 2016 US presidential election and the Brexit referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union the same year. There is now another kind of fake that is causing concern: deep fakes (a portmanteau of deep learning and fake). A deep fake is the use of artificial intelligence to create and edit seemingly real videos and audio recordings of people. To do this, deepfakes use Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which are a kind of algorithm that can create new data from existing datasets.