Artificial intelligence · 2017

Deepfakes

Open-source face swapping makes convincing fake video available to anyone.

In late 2017 an anonymous Reddit user released autoencoder-based face swapping code. Synthetic media went from research labs to consumer apps, prompting detection research, provenance standards and new laws.

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What it built on 2

Generative adversarial network 2014
Variational autoencoder 2013

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Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)

ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)