BBC OS Conversations: Deepfake attacks
After explicit faked photos of Taylor Swift went around the world, US politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images. The term \u2018deepfake\u2019 describes how artificial intelligence \u2013 AI \u2013 can be used to digitally alter pictures, audio or video and trick us into seeing or hearing something that is not real.
It is not just the famous who are being targeted. Host James Reynolds hears the story of how a daughter\u2019s voice was copied and used to make a scam phone call to her mother.
\u201cShe said mom I messed up, and all of a sudden a man said \u2018put your head back and lay down\u2019 and that\u2019s when I started to get really concerned that she was either really hurt or something more was going on,\u201d Jennifer tells us. \u201cAnd then she goes \u2018mom, mom, these bad men have me, help me, help me and she starts crying and sobbing.\u201d
Thankfully her daughter, Brianna, had not been kidnapped but the call has had a lasting effect on the family.
Technology has made the process of adjusting images easier but artificial intelligence provides the means to create media from scratch to generate completely fake content. We bring together two women \u2013 in the US and Australia \u2013 who have had their faces manipulated using AI to produce malicious pornographic images and videos.