28 h. ago Call for total ban on deepfake apps used to create explicit images of children

The Government must take action to stop abuse, Children’s Commissioner says

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3 d. ago ‘Zizian’ follower named ‘person of interest’ in her parents’ killing denies all allegations: ‘We aren’t a murder cult’

In a 20-page letter from jail shared with The Independent, the 32-year-old defended her group’s motives and said their namesake Ziz LaSota is on ‘hunger strike’

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6 d. ago Women reveal horror of having innocent images from their social media made into deepfake AI pornography

More than 1,300 posts on a sick site that encouraged men to share pictures of themselves masturbating on printed-out images - were terrorising underage girls in the town of Levittown, New York.

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1 week ago The sheer mendacity of Labour in the wake of the Supreme Court trans ruling is breathtaking. They're gaslighting us when they should be apologising to all those women who dared to speak out

The Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman is the perfect opportunity to stop and take stock of the mad culture war that has been raging around this issue for the past decade or so.

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2 w. ago ‘It never happened – but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world

From the pope in a puffer to the Princess of Wales and family, baby Hitler to Mussolini on horseback, people have always manipulated photographs, whether for political power, image control – or just for fun “Pictures or it didn’t happen.” So runs the immediate social media retort to any claim deemed too extraordinary to be true. Carried within it is an assumption shared across the globe which has held firm almost since the invention of the camera: that the ultimate form of proof is the photograph. The idea is so strongly fixed in the human mind, it has acquired the status of a law of nature, one obvious even to a child: the camera never lies.Except it does, as the images collected here vividly attest. We may think of AI deepfakes, and their Photoshop predecessors, as thoroughly modern menaces, corrupting a previously innocent, reliable medium, but we would be wrong. It turns out people have been doctoring photos, manipulating and meddling, from the start. “Honest” Abe Lincoln was no...

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2 w. ago Women urged 'speak up' as Coronation Street's storyline makes viewers' 'blood boil'

Dee-Dee Bailey's traumatic birth on Coronation Street has been at the centre of a medical negligence storyline, which has sparked a warning for mums-to-be

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3 w. ago Lyle and Erik Menendez have 'shared purpose' for future if released from jail

US brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent more than 30 years in prison for killing their parents at their Beverly Hills home, have told of their plans if they are released

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3 w. ago "My depression spiralled": Women speak out after vile Essex man jailed for sharing deepfake images

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: A 26-year-old man has been jailed afer sharing disgusting deepfaked images online - three of his victims have bravely spoken out about the impact these crimes have had on them

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