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24-05-2024, 11:33 AM
By Johnny Dodd
Published on May 18, 2024 08:45AM EDT
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she called the police in Berkeley, Calif., with the name of the person who she suspected had created the video — a student she knew before her graduation from the University of California at Berkeley two years earlier. But she quickly learned authorities had few tools at their disposal.
“Instead of justice,” Liu says, “they told me there was nothing they could do.”
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Her alarm spurred her to tackle the technological nightmare of so-called deepfake porn, which employs artificial intelligence (AI) technology to place another person’s face into sexual material to imitate real videos.
Liu ...... is now developing free-to-use facial recognition software that will allow victims to identify faked and abusive content and then remove it.
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She was also floored by what happened when she reached out to police. “They asked me if I’d ever engaged in prostitution or had exchanged nude videos for money,” she says, noting that their investigation was closed after three months. (Law enforcement didn't respond to a request for comment for this story.)
Liu eventually discovered more than 800 links containing deepfake material of her, but efforts to get them all removed proved futile because of bureaucratic obstacles, an outcome she says she learned was all too common.
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By 2022 she’d used her savings to launch her San Francisco-based company Alecto AI, which employs facial recognition technology to help users locate deepfaked videos and other content using their likenesses and then, in partnership with major platforms, have it removed.
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Currently there are no laws targeting the production and dissemination of deepfake porn, which can be created in minutes with the aid of increasingly advanced — and accessible — AI tools.
“I can’t control what Congress or law enforcement does,” says Liu. “But the one thing we should all be able to control is the sovereignty of our own images online. What I’m building is a first line of defense that gives victims their power back.”
https://people.com/breeze-liu-fighting-b...rn-8649589
Published on May 18, 2024 08:45AM EDT
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she called the police in Berkeley, Calif., with the name of the person who she suspected had created the video — a student she knew before her graduation from the University of California at Berkeley two years earlier. But she quickly learned authorities had few tools at their disposal.
“Instead of justice,” Liu says, “they told me there was nothing they could do.”
......
Her alarm spurred her to tackle the technological nightmare of so-called deepfake porn, which employs artificial intelligence (AI) technology to place another person’s face into sexual material to imitate real videos.
Liu ...... is now developing free-to-use facial recognition software that will allow victims to identify faked and abusive content and then remove it.
......
She was also floored by what happened when she reached out to police. “They asked me if I’d ever engaged in prostitution or had exchanged nude videos for money,” she says, noting that their investigation was closed after three months. (Law enforcement didn't respond to a request for comment for this story.)
Liu eventually discovered more than 800 links containing deepfake material of her, but efforts to get them all removed proved futile because of bureaucratic obstacles, an outcome she says she learned was all too common.
......
By 2022 she’d used her savings to launch her San Francisco-based company Alecto AI, which employs facial recognition technology to help users locate deepfaked videos and other content using their likenesses and then, in partnership with major platforms, have it removed.
......
Currently there are no laws targeting the production and dissemination of deepfake porn, which can be created in minutes with the aid of increasingly advanced — and accessible — AI tools.
“I can’t control what Congress or law enforcement does,” says Liu. “But the one thing we should all be able to control is the sovereignty of our own images online. What I’m building is a first line of defense that gives victims their power back.”
https://people.com/breeze-liu-fighting-b...rn-8649589
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