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It’s nearly five years since the advent of deepfakes released into the public realm the ability to alter people’s facial identities; at first, in recorded video, and now even as a streaming implementation, with DeepFaceLive.

A new paper from Israel proposes the institution and ongoing development of a ‘deepfake CAPTCHA’ protocol, to challenge audio or video callers that may be using deepfake technologies to attempt to deceive or defraud.

In the original, and the various cinematic incarnations of Jack Finney’s 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, the fact that aliens are ‘taking over’ the earthly population is signaled to their loved ones by some imperceptible changed quality that cuts through the perfect simulation of their form.

There is an interesting vulnerability in video deepfakes that, to date, has been generally overlooked by the security research community, perhaps because ‘live’, real-time deepfakes in video calls have not been a major cause for concern until very recently.

Towards the end of our new feature on the future of autoencoder-based deepfakes, we preview a new capability in FaceSwap, set for release this Saturday…

The way we refer to visual effects (VFX) work may be changing soon. For instance, at the time of writing, the relatively new technology of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) makes it possible to recreate entire scenes – including humans, homes, exterior environments, and almost anything else you can imagine – inside an AI’s neural network, from a handful of static photos.