Category: Entertainment
The person who allegedly leaked Paramount’s new Avatar movie has been arrested
Following Paramount Skydance’s move to launch an investigation into how its upcoming Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender animated feature leaked onto the internet, a suspect has been taken into custody by police. The Straits Times reports Singaporean police have arrested a 26-year-old man who is alleged to have uploaded the new Avatar movie (previously titled […]
Revisiting the Advent of the Abstract
Barry Schwabsky
A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction.
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First Pong, now ping-pong.YouTube offers its biometric deepfake detection tool to celebrities
After content creators, politicians and journalists, YouTube will also enable celebrities to access its likeness detection tool, allowing them to remove deepfakes and stop unauthorized impersonation on the platform.
YouTube’s biometric likeness technology scans for AI-generated videos that match a verified user’s appearance. The feature functions similarly to Content ID, a tool that helps detect and remove copyrighted material on the platform, according to a company blog post.
Users can verify their identity by submitting a government ID and a self-recorded video for face biometrics matching. Those enrolled in the program receive alerts when potential matches surface and can request removal if the content goes against YouTube’s privacy policy.
The feature was first offered to creators in the YouTube Partner Program last year, while in March it was expanded to government officials, journalists and political candidates. Expansion to other famous people is the next logical step.
YouTube says it has collaborated with talent agencies and management companies, such as CAA, UTA, WME, and Untitled Management, to provide the tech to entertainers.
While some celebrities have recoiled at the thought of seeing their deepfakes online, others are seeing it as a money-making tool. Talent agency CAA has, for instance, built a database with AI developer Veritone that stores their clients’ digital likenesses and voices to give them control and compensation in cases of AI use.
YouTube is not the only company that is introducing measures to protect famous people from unauthorized deepfakes, as AI-generated videos fuel scams, political misinformation and reputational manipulation.
Last year, OpenAI committed to “strengthen guardrails around replication of voice and likeness when individuals do not opt-in,” following Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston’s decision to reach out to the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA over unauthorized AI-generated versions of his likeness.
Meanwhile, both OpenAI and YouTube have voiced support for the proposed NO FAKES Act, a U.S. federal law designed to protect individuals’ voices and visual likenesses from unauthorized, AI-generated digital replicas.
Celebrities will be able to find and request removal of AI deepfakes on YouTube
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake monitoring feature to Hollywood – meaning some celebrity AI videos could soon disappear. The platform’s likeness detection feature searches YouTube for AI deepfake content and flags it for public figures enrolled in the program. Public figures can use it to keep track of AI content on YouTube of themselves […]
Deezer says AI song uploads have nearly overtaken human music
Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated song submissions to its music streaming platform each day, accounting for about 44 percent of all daily uploads, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Despite the increase in “fraudulent” uploads, Deezer says the consumption of AI songs makes up around 1 to 3 percent of total streams, as the […]
