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These people do not exist. Why websites are churning out fake images of people (and cats) By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Updated 9:21 AM ET, Thu February 28, 2019
"Launched earlier this month by software engineer Phillip Wang as a personal project, the site makes use of a recently-released AI system developed by researchers at computer chip maker Nvidia:Called StyleGAN"
Is that video real? Fake images and videos are everywhere. Here’s how to spot them. By AJ Willingham, CNN Published October 19, 2020

"Giarrusso outlines five different types of misinformation:

Manipulated media: Photoshops, edited “cheapfakes” and some deepfakes.
Fabricated media: Generated media, like fake faces, and some deepfakes.
False context: When a photo, piece of video or even entire event is taken out of content and attached to a different narrative.
Imposter media: When someone pretends to be a reputable news source, or impersonates a news source.
Satire: Misinformation knowingly created for the purpose of entertainment or commentary."

This AI is so good at writing that its creators.By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Updated 5:17 PM ET, Mon February 18, 2019 won't let you use it
"...the researchers said they would not make it publicly available due to "concerns about malicious applications of the technology." Instead, the company released a technical paper and a smaller AI model — essentially a less capable version of the same text generator — that other researchers can use."

Who owns the AI generated work?

LEGALLY SPEAKING: AI Authorship?
"The pragmatic answer to the AI authorship puzzle, as I have argued elsewhere,4 is the user who is responsible for generating the outputs. If anyone needs to be designated as owner of rights in the outputs, it should be the user. That person possesses the outputs, discovered that the potential commercial value of the outputs, and is generally best situated to assess and exploit that value."

What's up? Copyright and AI generated Creative Works

Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Why We’re Against Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Output (creativecommons.org)
Copyright and AI generated Creative Works site.gov
Copyright and AI generated Creative Works site:.edu
LEGALLY SPEAKING: AI Authorship? By Pamela Samuelson Communications of the ACM, July 2020 (cacm.acm.org)
"Copyright Office or judges in litigation will generally be able to tell the difference between outputs that have been created by AI and those created by humans."

Food for thought: How could you prove that you did not use AI to create a work? Even hundreds of years ago, artists used tools like mirrors and shadows.

GAN Gallery

This person does not exist! Imagined by a GAN (generative adversarial network)

StyleGAN2 (Dec 2019) - Karras et al. and Nvidia (Don't panic. Learn how it works [1] [2] [3])

Food for thought: If you can create Deep Fakes of actors, do you really need people anymore?

Image accessed from 10/19/2020 by AI tool at:

Image source: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Can you guess which cat is real? 5 of the cats do not exist!

Food for thought... Will it matter to an artist studying anatomy whether the cat is real or not?

Images accessed 10/19/2020 from the following websites:

Real Cat Image: Young male tabby cat, Portugal. (Young male tabby cat, Portugal.)
TITLE: Young male tabby cat, Portugal. File:Cat November 2010-1a.jpg
AUTHOR: Alvesgaspar Date: November 2010
SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_November_2010-1a.jpg
LICENSE:This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
FakeCats from https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

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REPORT: When seeing is no longer believing: Inside the Pentagon’s race against deepfake videos

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REPORT: When seeing is no longer believing: Inside the Pentagon’s race against deepfake videos

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