Just Joking! Deepfakes, Satire, Gaslighting and the Politics of Synthetic Media With deepfakes, who decides what’s funny, what’s fair, and who is accountable? This will be an interactive, highly visual panel discussion...
Still funny?: Political satire in Brazil with Bruno Sartori In episode 7 of the deepfakery series, leading Brazilian deepfake creator and satirist Bruno Sartori joins WITNESS Brazil Program Manager Victor Ribeiro...
Faking the Powerful In episode 6 of the deepfakery series, human rights activists Julie Owono (Internet without Borders, Facebook Oversight Board) and Adebayo Okeowo (WITNESS), and University of Oklahoma human rights...
Manipulating memories: Archives, history and deepfakes In episode 5 of the Deepfakery series, artist/director Francesca Panetta and technologist Halsey Burgund of MIT, computational artist James Coupe, and WITNESS staff archivist Yvonne...
Boundary lines? Deepfakes weaponized against journalists and activists In episode 4 of the Deepfakery series, Samantha Cole of VICE, Megha Rajagopalan of BuzzFeed, and author Nina Schick discuss the dangers that...
Using AI-generated Face Doubles in Documentary: Welcome to Chechnya For his new observational documentary, Welcome to Chechnya, director David France took extraordinary measures to protect his subjects: members of the LGBTQ+ community fleeing...
Not funny anymore: Deepfakes, manipulated media, parody and mis/disinformation Episode 2 of the Deepfakery series features Brandi Collins-Dexter of the Shorenstein Center, Jane Lytvynenko of BuzzFeed News, and Karen Hao of...
Faking the Powerful 'Deepfakery Talk Series: Faking the Powerful': Episode 1 features artists and researchers Bill Posters and Daniel Howe (Spectre Project, Big Dada), known widely for their deepfake of Mark...