Washington (AFP)
Pornography, and more and more politics, are the favorite subjects of "deepfake", these hyper-realistic fake videos that proliferate on the net, according to a study by a firm specializing in online security.
The vast majority (96%) of deepfakes remain devoted to "non-consensual pornography", using images of women - often famous - in videos manipulated by artificial intelligence, according to the company's investigation Deeptrace, based in Amsterdam, published Monday.
Some 15,000 videos of this kind have been spotted in the last seven months, according to the study.
Four "specialized" websites have been visited more than 100 million times, "which demonstrates the existence of a market for websites hosting pornographic deepfakes, and a trend that will increase unless decisive action is taken. taken, "Giorgio Patrini, Managing Director of Deeptrace, said on his blog.
But the "deepfake" is also beginning to "have a significant impact in the political sphere," said Patrini, citing cases in Gabon and Malaysia, "which illustrate how deepfakes are already destabilizing processes policies. "
Some videos use synthetic voices and imagery created from scratch, and "have been used to influence the opinion against companies and governments," he worries.
Concerns about the "deepfake" and its possible repercussions on electoral processes are becoming stronger, despite the efforts of Internet giants to identify and counter them.
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