no code implementations • 6 Mar 2020 • Marc Faddoul, Guillaume Chaslot, Hany Farid
Conspiracy theories have flourished on social media, raising concerns that such content is fueling the spread of disinformation, supporting extremist ideologies, and in some cases, leading to violence.
no code implementations • 1 Apr 2020 • Nicholas Carlini, Hany Farid
We show that such forensic classifiers are vulnerable to a range of attacks that reduce the classifier to near-0% accuracy.
no code implementations • 29 Apr 2020 • Shruti Agarwal, Tarek El-Gaaly, Hany Farid, Ser-Nam Lim
Synthetically-generated audios and videos -- so-called deep fakes -- continue to capture the imagination of the computer-graphics and computer-vision communities.
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2022 • Matyáš Boháček, Hany Farid
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is being fought on two fronts: a brutal ground war and a duplicitous disinformation campaign designed to conceal and justify Russia's actions.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2022 • Hany Farid
Type "a sea otter with a pearl earring by Johannes Vermeer" or "a photo of a teddy bear on a skateboard in Times Square" into OpenAI's DALL-E-2 paint-by-text synthesis engine and you will not be disappointed by the delightful and eerily pertinent results.
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2022 • Hany Farid
Whereas generative adversarial networks are capable of synthesizing highly realistic images of faces, cats, landscapes, or almost any other single category, paint-by-text synthesis engines can -- from a single text prompt -- synthesize realistic images of seemingly endless categories with arbitrary configurations and combinations.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2023 • Ziv Epstein, Aaron Hertzmann, Laura Herman, Robert Mahari, Morgan R. Frank, Matthew Groh, Hope Schroeder, Amy Smith, Memo Akten, Jessica Fjeld, Hany Farid, Neil Leach, Alex Pentland, Olga Russakovsky
A new class of tools, colloquially called generative AI, can produce high-quality artistic media for visual arts, concept art, music, fiction, literature, video, and animation.
1 code implementation • 15 Jul 2023 • Sarah Barrington, Romit Barua, Gautham Koorma, Hany Farid
Synthetic-voice cloning technologies have seen significant advances in recent years, giving rise to a range of potential harms.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2023 • Justin Norman, Shruti Agarwal, Hany Farid
Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have led to reported facial recognition accuracies surpassing human performance.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2023 • Gonzalo J. Aniano Porcile, Jack Gindi, Shivansh Mundra, James R. Verbus, Hany Farid
AI-based image generation has continued to rapidly improve, producing increasingly more realistic images with fewer obvious visual flaws.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2023 • Matyas Bohacek, Hany Farid
Trained on massive amounts of human-generated content, AI (artificial intelligence) image synthesis is capable of reproducing semantically coherent images that match the visual appearance of its training data.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2024 • Jooyoung Lee, Emily Booth, Hany Farid, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
What if misinformation is not an information problem at all?