{"id":110923,"date":"2020-08-05T13:03:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/deepfakes-are-the-most-worrying-ai-crime-researchers-warn"},"modified":"2020-08-05T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T20:03:28","slug":"deepfakes-are-the-most-worrying-ai-crime-researchers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/deepfakes-are-the-most-worrying-ai-crime-researchers-warn","title":{"rendered":"Deepfakes are the most worrying AI crime, researchers warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepfakes-are-the-most-worrying-ai-crime-researchers-warn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deepfakes are the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/news\/2020\/aug\/deepfakes-ranked-most-serious-ai-crime-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a new report<\/a> from University College London.<\/p>\n<p>The research team first identified 20 different ways AI could be used by criminals over the next 15 years. They then asked 31 AI experts to rank them by risk, based on their potential for harm, the money they could make, their ease of use, and how hard they are to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Deepfakes \u2014 AI-generated videos of real people doing and saying fictional things \u2014 earned the top spot for two major reasons. Firstly, they\u2019re hard to identify and prevent. Automated detection methods <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/deepfake-detection-challenge-results-an-open-initiative-to-advance-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">remain unreliable<\/a> and deepfakes also <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/CYBER-DEEPFAKE\/ACTIVIST\/nmovajgnxpa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">getting better<\/a> at fooling human eyes. A recent Facebook competition to detect them with algorithms led researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/deepfake-detection-challenge-results-an-open-initiative-to-advance-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to admit<\/a> it\u2019s \u201cvery much an unsolved problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepfakes are the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism, according to a new report from University College London. The research team first identified 20 different ways AI could be used by criminals over the next 15 years. They then asked 31 AI experts to rank them by risk, based on their potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}