Watch out for attacks from virtual people with phantom lives
Attackers can fake a face. But now it's easier and easier for them to fake an entire personality with the push of a few buttons.
They can use AI, like a computer on steroids, to generate fake lives that feel real. A baseball player who never existed. A computer-generated car. Emails written by the computer mind.
These artificial creations are called deepfakes, a combination of 'deep learning' and 'fakes,' and attackers will likely use these simulated lives to target all of us for theft, spying and sabotage.
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Story originally published on August 20, 2022.
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