Tag Archives: Fake

I don’t know about you but I receive at least 10 malicious phishing mails and WhatsApp every month, and this not taking into account the many mails ending up in the spam folder. Hence, I was not surprised by the report by Insider Intelligence eMarketer (see the graphic) showing that …

AI generated images have become, in just a few months, so pervasive, and most crucially so convincing that many researchers have rushed to find ways of detecting if an image is a photo or if it is something created out of the blue by AI. Optic has released a tool, …

I was impressed by an article on Wired showing how catfishing has become a business. That people may pretend to be someone else is nothing new. I remember a movie, long time ago, where one (Italian) character emigrated to Australia pretended to be young, handsome and wealthy to convince a …

Artificial Intelligence has progressed to the point of making possible to create pieces of music, novels and newspapers articles, paintings… imitating the style of a given artist to the point that it can fool “experts” (take a look at the clip, where original and AI Bach pieces are played – …

Just yesterday I wrote about the thin line between fake and true. Let’s take a step forward into the realm of fake but for what might be a good cause (the end justifies the means… Macchiavelli said long time ago!). Are you spending more and more time on Zoom (and …

Philosophers have been debating for thousands of years the concept of “truth”. You’ll probably remember Protagoras of Abdera criteria: “Of all things the measure is Man, of the things that are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not” often captured by the sentence: …

All communications is based on coding. You talk into your smartphone and your voice is sampled, converted into bits that are transported by the network to your correspondent smartphone that will provide to convert them back into the sound of your voice. Well, it is not identical to your voice …

Skylum has just announced the future release of Luminar AI, expected later this years, that, as the name suggests, will be making use -heavily- of AI in all stages of photo editing. To advertise their products, and stimulating people to pre-order, they are presenting a number of images showing the …

Slide 1 | Your Content Slide 2 | Your Content Slide 3 | Your Content Adobe Photoshops (as several other image processing applications) makes it easy (and easier with any new release) to tamper with the images captured by a digital cameras. Bits are bits and you cannot distinguish one …