How Filmmakers Created Fake Newsreels in the 1920s
A horrifying magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit Japan on September 1, 1923, killing over 140,000 people. And while news of…
Scarlett Johansson on Deepfakes: 'The Internet Is a Vast Wormhole of Darkness That Eats Itself'
One of the darkest aspects of our technologically advanced world is how new advancements are inevitably used to…
The Ultimate Weapon of X-Men: Red's Greatest Villain Is All Too Real
Tom Taylor, Rogê Antônio, and Rain Beredo’s X-Men: Red has been telling the story of how Jean Grey’s newest team of…
Smartphone Notch, Deepfakes, and Facebook's War Room: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
It’s been a big week for the service journalism here at Gizmodo dot com. We published an exhaustive guide to the 100…
How Archivists Could Stop Deepfakes From Rewriting History
History is rife with fakes. In 1983, the German magazine Stern announced that it had acquired previously undocumented…
The Machines That Will Fight the Social Media Wars of Tomorrow
The internet has entered into a new era, forcing us to second-guess virtually everything we see, hear, and read. In…
Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method
Deepfakes, ultrarealistic fake videos manipulated using machine learning, are getting pretty convincing. And…
This Video Uses the Power of Deepfakes to Re-Capture This Character's Cameo Appearance in Rogue One
Who wins: a multibillion-dollar film studio, or a YouTuber with a computer and the right tech?
President Trump Accuses NBC News of 'Fudging' Famous Interview About Comey Firing
President Trump has made new allegations in a series of tweets this morning that are sure to get his supporters riled…
Most Deepfake Videos Have One Glaring Flaw
The rate at which deepfake videos are advancing is both impressive and deeply unsettling. But researchers have…
Deepfake Videos Are Getting Impossibly Good
Fake news sucks, and as those eerily accurate videos of a lip-synced Barack Obama demonstrated last year, it’s soon…
The Screen Actors Guild Wants to Protect Its Members From Deepfakes
The labor union representing Hollywood’s actors, singers and other media artists wants to make sure its members aren’t…
Jordan Peele Uses Machine Learning Tools to Make a Fake Obama Warn Us About 'Fucked-Up Dystopia'
As our descent into national madness continues, some have been sounding warning bells about a possible “fake news…
When You Can Make 'JFK' Say Anything, What's Stopping Him From Selling Doritos?
On Friday, The Times of London teamed up with a tech company and a creative agency to digitally recreate “the speech…
Reddit Bans AI-Powered Fake Porn
Following Twitter, Discord, Imgur, and Pornhub, Reddit has taken action to ban the posting of AI-generated fake…
A $500 PC and an AI Did a Way Better Job Erasing Henry Cavill's Justice League Mustache Than Expensive VFX
There’s a long list of things wrong with the Justice League movie, not the least of which being the hasty and…
Pornhub Says Digitally Generated 'Deepfakes' Are Non-Consensual and It Will Remove Them
After Reddit and image-hosting platform Gfycat began removing porn videos digitally altered via machine-learning…
The Purge of AI-Assisted Fake Porn Has Begun
It was only a matter of time before more sophisticated fake porn videos surfaced online. But a crackdown on this…
It Was Only a Matter of Time Before Internet Trolls Made More Sophisticated Fake Porn Videos
Fake porn involves manipulating a video or photo by putting someone else’s face on a porn star’s body. In recent…