It is not the first time that the deepfake has generated controversy, since on several occasions Hollywood actresses have been victims of identity theft in adult videos without their consent.
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Since the popularization of artificial intelligence, Internet users have experimented with it. From dinoprofessions, to the creation of multimedia content from scratch, only with a small textual description. In recent years it has been possible to see what AI is capable of. An example of this is that trends of deceased artists have become popular on social networks, interpreting current songs as a cover, using AI and the vocal library of artists on platforms such as YouTube.
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The controversies over the use of artificial intelligence have not been few. One of the most publicized was the hyper-realistic photographs of celebrities such as Donald Trump being chased by police or Pope Francis at an electronics party, all false. Continuing with the idea of multimedia creation, currently there have been computer and economic thefts by means of video calls and the use of the same AI.
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According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, a man in China received a video call from his wife by the social network for messaging and free calls WeChat, in which he was asking for US$3,600. This money, according to what the man commented, was because she was driving and crashed into a car, so the money was supposedly to mediate with the other driver.
The 73-year-old man, although he received the video call from a different user than his wife, did not think it could be a robbery or someone else, because who was on the other side of the video call He had the same physical features as his mistress, as well as speaking with the same tone of voice.. This made him worried and he transferred the money to her without realizing that it was being stolen.
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According to investigations carried out by the Chinese police, the cybercriminals had followed the couple for some time. The man’s wife was a creator of culinary, topical, and popular profile content in the Asian country, a fact that made it easier for thieves to have He recorded the woman’s voice and modeled her face.a fact only seen in spy movies like Mission Impossible.
By 2022, according to The Washington Post, only in the United States 36,000 complaints of people who were deceived through voice cloning were reportedbecause the thieves, emulating the voice of loved ones and relatives of the victims through artificial intelligence, posed as them and demanded amounts of money and valuables with the excuse of solving an immediate calamity or emergency.
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The authorities in China have called attention to the general population, recommending not share biometric information. “Be cautious when giving out biometric information and refrain from sharing videos and other images of yourself on the Internet,” authorities say.
This new technique used by cybercriminals has had a history that goes as far as altering photographs in the 19th century. XVIIIwhen the face of a person in a printed photograph was removed, and replaced by another with visual games of perspective or using another face from another photograph.
In the cinema and in multimedia content, the deepfake technique has also been used, with greater technology and facilities, since it is used to digitally rejuvenate or age actors, even to replace the faces of actors who cannot perform a scene or who died on set.
