Major events
Taiwan's recent arrest of popular YouTuber Xiao Yu, Zhu Yuchen, for allegedly selling deepfake pornographic videos of public figures has drawn public attention to artificial intelligence (AI) crimes and the government's lack of laws to address sexual violence in cyberspace.
Xiao Yu was arrested, along with two of his associates, on October 17 for selling AI-generated deep fake pornographic videos of public figures via a Telegram group since July 2020. The three were released on bail on October 18.
At least 100 individuals, including politicians, YouTubers, and celebrities, have fallen victim to the new technology crime. Their faces were implanted onto pornographic videos and sold for profit. Reportedly, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is one of the victims, though the fake video clip featuring her was not explicit and was quickly removed from LINE, the most popular messaging app in Taiwan.
-By Oiwan Lam
https://international.thenewslens.com/article/157928
That you should know
96 % of all deepfake videos were pornographic and nonconsensual.
The top four websites dedicated to hosting deepfakes received a combined 134 million views on such videos.
a nearly 100 % of the videos' subjects were women
-Deeptrace Lab
Only for making pornographic videos?
There are also some positive uses...
Deepfake is the future of content creation
Regular news anchor Kim Joo-Ha started to go through the day's headlines. It was a relatively normal list of stories for late 2020 - full of Covid-19 and pandemic response updates.
Kim Joo-Ha wasn't actually on the screen. Instead she had been replaced by a "deepfake" version of herself, and viewers had been informed beforehand that this was going to happen.
Called DeepNostalgia, the firm acknowledged that some people might find the feature "creepy" while others would consider it "magical".
It said it did not include speech to avoid the creation of "deepfake people".
It comes as the UK government considers legislation on deepfake technology.