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Oxford university calls for tighter controls to tackle rise in deepfakes
Easy-to-use open source software is to blame for the explosion in programs primarily used to create explicit images of women, researchers suggest
Will Hawkins, lead author of the study, said: “There is an urgent need for more robust technical safeguards, clearer and more proactively enforced platform policies, and new regulatory approaches to address the creation and distribution of these harmful AI models.” They can then be modified to make celebrity deepfakes with minimal technical knowledge, requiring 20 images of the target individual, a consumer-grade computer and 15 minutes of processing time. She said: “The research exposes the grim reality of how quickly the number of models used to create non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes has proliferated in a short period of time.
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