Media studies
Field of study that deals with media
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Fahrenheit 451
An instrumental concept album 'The Ray Bradbury Chronicles' featured a composition based on 'Fahrenheit 451', with three sections (City, Escape, Exile) representing key stages of the novel's plotline.
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| 2024 |
Critical data studies
Rob Kitchin published 'Critical data studies: an A to Z guide to concepts and methods', providing a comprehensive reference for the field.
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| 2024 |
Deepfake
Deepfake porn images of Taylor Swift circulated online.
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| 2024 |
Deepfake
Indian Tamil film 'The Greatest of All Time' used AI deepfake to recreate Vijay's teenage face, portrayed by Ayaz Khan
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| August 2024 |
Deepfake
Secretaries of state from Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Washington, Michigan, and New Mexico wrote an open letter to Elon Musk, urging modifications to X's AI chatbot Grok's text-to-video generator due to potential election misinformation.
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| August 2024 |
Deepfake
The Irish Data Protection Commission launched court proceedings against X for unlawful use of personal data in AI training.
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| April 2024 |
Deepfake
A deepfake video misrepresenting Philippine President Bongbong Marcos was released, showing a fabricated directive about potential conflict with China in the South China Sea.
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| March 2024 |
Deepfake
A controversial video clip of Kate Middleton was released from Buckingham Palace, showing her undergoing chemotherapy, which sparked widespread speculation about the authenticity of the video and whether it was an AI deepfake. UCLA's race director Johnathan Perkins publicly doubted the video's legitimacy and speculated about Kate Middleton's actual health status.
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| March 2024 |
Deepfake
During India's state assembly elections, political candidates widely used deepfake technology from The Indian Deepfaker to translate campaign speeches into multiple regional languages.
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| March 2024 |
Deepfake
DARPA's SemaFor program published an analytic catalog providing open-source resources for detecting AI-manipulated media.
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| January 10 2024 |
Deepfake
U.S. representative María Salazar introduced H.R. 6943: No AI Fraud Act in the 118th United States Congress to establish property rights for individual physicality.
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| 2023 |
Deepfake
The United Kingdom passed the Online Safety Act, making deepfakes illegal.
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| 2023 |
Deepfake
ABBA and KISS partnered with Industrial Light & Magic and Pophouse Entertainment to develop deepfake avatars for virtual concert performances.
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| 2023 |
Deepfake
Deepfake porn videos of Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson appeared online in a face swapping app.
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| 2023 |
Deepfake
SAG-AFTRA strike occurred, with AI technology and deepfake capability being a major issue of contention, highlighting concerns about digital actor likeness and potential replacement
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| 2023 |
Deepfake
The International Panel on the Information Environment was launched with over 250 scientists working to develop countermeasures against deepfakes.
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| October 2023 |
Deepfake
A deepfake audio clip of UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer was released, falsely portraying him as abusing staffers during a party conference.
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| October 2023 |
Deepfake
Tom Hanks shared an Instagram post warning fans about a deepfake depicting him promoting a dental plan, emphasizing his non-involvement.
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| September 20 2023 |
Deepfake
U.S. representative Yvette Clarke introduced H.R. 5586: Deepfakes Accountability Act in the 118th United States Congress to protect national security from deepfake threats.
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| June 2023 |
Deepfake
Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign used a deepfake to misrepresent Donald Trump.
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| June 5 2023 |
Deepfake
An unknown source broadcast a deepfake of Vladimir Putin on multiple radio and television networks, showing him apparently announcing a Russian invasion and calling for army mobilization.
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| May 2023 |
Deepfake
A viral deepfake video depicted Vice President Kamala Harris seemingly speaking incoherently.
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| March 2023 |
Deepfake
An anonymous person created a viral deepfake image of Pope Francis wearing a white Balenciaga puffer jacket, which received over twenty million views.
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| January 2023 |
Deepfake
ITVX released 'Deep Fake Neighbour Wars', a series featuring celebrities' faces deepfaked onto actors in various scenarios.
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| January 2023 |
Deepfake
China's updated Deep Synthesis Provisions went into effect, regulating synthetic media creation.
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| 2022 |
Fahrenheit 451
Atomic war referenced as taking place in the fictional setting of Fahrenheit 451, establishing the earliest possible timeline for the novel's dystopian future.
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| 2022 |
Deepfake
A deepfake video of Elvis Presley was featured on the program America's Got Talent 17.
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| 2022 |
Deepfake
Kendrick Lamar used deepfake technology in his music video 'The Heart Part 5', transforming into figures like Nipsey Hussle, O.J. Simpson, and Kanye West, created by Deep Voodoo studio.
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| September 13 2022 |
Deepfake
Metaphysic AI performed with a synthetic version of Elvis Presley during the finals of America's Got Talent.
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| August 30 2022 |
Deepfake
Metaphysic AI generated deepfake versions of Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, and Terry Crews singing opera on stage.
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| June 8 2022 |
Deepfake
Daniel Emmet and Metaphysic AI created a hyperrealistic deepfake of Simon Cowell during a performance, making Cowell appear on screen singing 'You're The Inspiration' while Emmet performed on stage.
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| May 2022 |
Deepfake
Google modified its Jupyter Notebook colabs terms of service to ban the creation of deepfakes, responding to concerns about non-consensual pornographic content.
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| March 16 2022 |
Deepfake
A deepfake video of Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared on social media, falsely showing him telling Ukrainian soldiers to surrender during the Russian invasion. The video was circulated on Russian social media, then removed by Facebook and YouTube after being debunked.
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| March 16 2022 |
Deepfake
University of Southern California's VIMAL team demonstrated their deepfake detection algorithm by identifying a deepfake of Volodymyr Zelensky on the same day of the algorithm's release, without any retraining or prior knowledge of the deepfake's creation method.
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| January 6 2022 |
Deepfake
Canadian police series 'Hudson & Rex' featured an episode exploring deepfake technology used to frame a police officer with doctored CCTV footage.
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| 2021 |
Deepfake
ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary 'Al Davis vs. the NFL' used deepfake technology to recreate deceased characters Al Davis and Pete Rozelle.
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| 2021 |
Deepfake
Realistic deepfake videos of actor Tom Cruise were released on TikTok, creating viral content with millions of views, created by Chris Umé.
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| December 2021 |
Deepfake
Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a research paper demonstrating that humans are 69–72% accurate at identifying deepfake videos from a random sample of 50 videos.
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| April 2021 |
Deepfake
Pranksters Vovan and Lexus allegedly used deepfake technology to impersonate Leonid Volkov, a Russian opposition politician, though they denied using actual deepfakes.
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| 2020 |
Critical data studies
Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein published seven intersectional feminist principles for equitable and actionable COVID-19 data, expanding critical data studies' approach to data analysis.
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| 2020 |
Deepfake
During the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, the BJP used deepfake technology to translate Manoj Tiwari's campaign advertisement into Haryanvi, using AI to lip-sync an actor's voiceover.
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| 2020 |
Deepfake
Documentary 'Welcome to Chechnya' used deepfake technology to protect interviewees' identities by obscuring their faces
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| 2020 |
Deepfake
Deep fakes surfaced during the US presidential campaign depicting Joe Biden in a state of cognitive decline.
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| 2020 |
Deepfake
Bruno Sartori produced deepfake parodies of politicians Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump.
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| 2020 |
Deepfake
A deepfake video of Joaquin Oliver, a Parkland shooting victim, was created as part of a gun safety campaign by his parents and nonprofit Change the Ref, encouraging support for gun safety legislation.
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| 2020 |
Deepfake
An internet meme emerged using deepfake technology to generate videos of people singing a chorus from a song in the Yakuza 0 video game, with most iterations using a 2017 video by user Dobbsyrules as a template.
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| 2020 |
Deepfake
Trey Parker and Matt Stone created the webseries 'Sassy Justice', which extensively uses deepfake technology to parody and satirize public figures and current events, helping to raise awareness about deepfake capabilities.
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| October 2020 |
Deepfake
University of Buffalo researchers published a paper outlining a technique to detect deepfakes by analyzing light reflections in subjects' eyes.
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