Within hours of President Trump’s announcement of the dramatic weekend capture of Nicolás Maduro, social media was flooded ...

Deepfakes of Venezuela’s ousted president, Nicolás Maduro, flooded the internet after his capture, in a new collision of ...

AI-generated pictures, videos and voices — called deepfakes — are so believable and widely available that people will soon not be able to discern between real and manipulated media, an image analyst ...

Former President Donald Trump shared his mixed feelings on artificial intelligence with YouTuber Logan Paul Thursday, describing the technology as a “superpower” that writes “beautifully” while also ...

A comparison of an original and deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post via Getty Images) When an explicit AI-generated video of Taylor Swift went viral in ...

On May 19, 2023, a photograph appeared on what was then still called Twitter showing smoke billowing from the Pentagon after an apparent explosion. The image quickly went viral. Within minutes, the ...

A day before the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled CEOs from tech companies about internet child safety, bipartisan lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow victims to sue people who create and ...

At the start of this year, experts warned of chaos in the 2024 U.S. election, fueled by artificial intelligence and deepfakes that could sway public opinion and muddy the truth. According to a recent ...

Soon after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, local photographers began documenting the destruction of cultural sites to help preserve the country’s heritage and collect evidence for restitution. But a ...

Deepfakes—AI-generated synthetic media in which visuals or audio are manipulated to create deceptively realistic content—are often discussed in terms of their impact on the public’s perception of ...

If your child hasn’t seen a deepfake of someone associated with their school, it’s likely that a friend or their teacher is aware of one. Deepfakes are inauthentic images, videos or audio recordings ...