Chinese IT company developing “fake video creation application” Chen Xue September 5 15:35
Concerned about not being able to protect the privacy of individuals, a series of smartphone apps that can create “deep fake”, a fake video that is indistinguishable from the real thing, developed by a Chinese IT company. The company apologizes and takes measures to avoid any doubt.
China ZAO, a smartphone application developed by an IT company in Beijing, synthesizes the photographed face with the face of an actor appearing in a movie or drama with a simple operation, creating a so-called “deep fake” video can do.
However, since users of the application are asked to agree to the terms of use such as providing their face data to the company forever free of charge when using it, privacy will be protected from immediately after the announcement last week. In addition, there were a series of concerns that facial data could be used illegally.
In response to this, the developed company announced comments on SNS by the 5th, expressed appreciation for the great concern, and revised the terms of use so as not to cause any doubt that data will not be accumulated. It is supposed to take the correspondence of.
For this app, the Chinese government was also demanding countermeasures from companies because there were problems such as the risk of data leakage.