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Inside the Pentagon's race against deepfake videos

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Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video - known as "deepfakes" - relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level.

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No, pre-chopped onions are not ‘poisonous’ the next day as old myth claims

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No, pre-chopped onions are not ‘poisonous’ the next day as old myth claims

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Says pre-cut onion used to cook the following day "becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning."

By Samantha Putterman on Friday, August 16th, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

Social media posts aren't usually the best source for valid medical information, especially when it comes to ... chopped onions.

We all know the arduous practice of cutting onions makes us cry like babies - but is consuming day-old chopped onions actually "poisonous"?

That's what a Facebook post claims:

"Please remember it is dangerous to cut an onion and try to use it to cook the next day, it becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning."

The post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

This years-old warning is exaggerated. Don't be scared to use pre-chopped onions - they are perfectly safe to consume as long as you handle the food properly.

The myth is rooted in the possibility that bacteria can grow on vegetables between the time they are chopped and cooked. But with proper handling and storage, it is unlikely to become "dangerous" overnight or over several nights.

In an archived blog post, Joe Schwarcz, director of the McGill Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Canada, writes that onions are not especially prone to bacterial contamination. In fact, he says, it is quite the opposite.

"Cutting an onion triggers the release of enzymes that initiate a chemical reaction producing propenesulfenic acid, which in turn decomposes to yield sulphuric acid. It is the sulphuric acid that makes you cry by irritating the eyes! But sulphuric acid also inhibits the growth of bacteria," Schwarcz says in the post.

He goes on to explain that because a cut onion's surface dries out quickly, it reduces the moisture needed for bacteria to multiply. And to have bacteria multiply, there needs to be a source of bacteria on the onion in the first place.

So unless you have sliced your onions on a contaminated cutting board, or handled them with dirty hands, you can safely put them in a plastic bag and store them and there will not be any bacterial contamination," he says. "There is no reason to suggest that onions are in any way more risky than other foods and avoiding onions is not only unnecessary but unhealthy. That's because onions contain a variety of compounds that have health benefits.

According to the National Onion Association, chopped or sliced onions can be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for seven to 10 days.

An old myth circulating online warns consumers that pre-chopping an onion to cook the following day is dangerous because it "becomes highly poisonous" and "creates toxic bacteria."

Any vegetable can become contaminated with bacteria if it isn't handled or stored properly. Onions do not attract bacteria more than other vegetables and actually inhibit pathogen growth.

We rate this claim False.

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Social media posts aren't usually the best source for valid medical information, especially when it comes to ... chopped onions. We all know the arduous practice of cutting onions makes us cry like babies - but is consuming day-old chopped onions actually

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Deepfakes are an increasingly popular editing technique that uses artificial intelligence to alter faces and voices in videos. Part of the name comes from the AI used to create them, deep learning. Similar technology has been used in Hollywood for years, but with AI getting better and more accessible, today they're all over the internet.

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Deepfake Videos Are Getting Terrifyingly Real | Season 46 | NOVA

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Deepfakes are an increasingly popular editing technique that uses artificial intelligence to alter faces and voices in videos. Part of the name comes from the AI used to create them, deep learning. Similar technology has been used in Hollywood for years, but with AI getting better and more accessible, today they're all over the internet.

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Chinese developer MoMo created a new app entitled Zao. A new craze that hit markets , allowing individuals to deepfake their faces onto celebrities.

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China's iPhone users have found a new craze - a new app called Zao which lets people convincingly and hilariously transpose their faces onto actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Kit Harrington from Game of Thrones, and many others.

Zao topped the Chinese iOS download chart over the weekend after first launching on the App Store on Friday. As of Monday, Zao remains top of China's App Store, according to App Annie.

It isn't currently available to anyone without a Chinese phone number, and isn't listed on the UK or US App Store or Play Store.

Created by Chinese developer MoMo, the app allows users to deepfake their faces onto a huge range of actors, singers, and even video game characters. Users can upload even just a single image of their face and the app will automatically map it onto selected video clips for them. The results are surprisingly convincing and unexpected.

So-called "deepfake" technology has caught the public's imagination, using AI software to analyse someone's face and then map it onto video of someone else. Recently it has become more sophisticated and, as the Zao app shows, more accessible.

Check out some Zao-generated deepfakes below:

This tweet from game developer Allan Xia shows his face grafted onto various shots of Leonardo DiCaprio.

In case you haven't heard, #ZAO is a Chinese app which completely blew up since Friday. Best application of 'Deepfake'-style AI facial replacement I've ever seen.

Here's an example of me as DiCaprio (generated in under 8 secs from that one photo in the thumbnail) ? pic.twitter.com/1RpnJJ3wgT
- Allan Xia (@AllanXia) September 1, 2019

Xia also had a dialogue with himself as both Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly from Game of Thrones.

Here's for Asian representation in Hollywood ? #ZAO #AI #Deepfake pic.twitter.com/qrSs3VajfL
- Allan Xia (@AllanXia) September 1, 2019

The app has GIF-generating functionality, as illustrated by this gif of Xia as Wolverine.

The #ZAO app even has a built in meme gif generator...Apple is way behind the curve with Memoji's ? pic.twitter.com/dg5T3u7pt8
- Allan Xia (@AllanXia) September 1, 2019

It also appears to work with video game characters, here's Xia inserting his face into Devil May Cry.

Oh yeah, #Zao also works rather well with CG characters. I guess folks might not have to spend hours during character creation? I can see streamers loving this application of AI facial replacement. #DMC5 pic.twitter.com/AdpB4DIA00
- Allan Xia (@AllanXia) September 2, 2019

Finally Xia replaced a K-Pop singer's face with his own.

Taking this experiment to it's inevitable conclusion. #KPop stans eat your heart out ? @weareoneEXO#Zao #AI #Deepfakes #Exo #baekhyun pic.twitter.com/YjNEbRP1G6
- Allan Xia (@AllanXia) September 2, 2019

Twitter-user Nikk Mitchell also deepfaked his way onto DiCaprio's filmography.

Me risking my face rights to test out #ZAO so ya'll don't have to. The image I used is one single normal selfie that you can see in the bottom left of the image.#thefuturescaresme pic.twitter.com/RjtK8ZWPq9
- Nikk Mitchell ? (@nikkmitchell) September 2, 2019

Mitchell expressed his amazement at the app, mapping himself onto two Chinese actors.

I am in absolute awe of #ZAO. I uploaded a couple selfies, choose a clip, and seriously in less then 30 seconds had myself fully deep faked in. I can't wait till I can watch entire films where every character is me.

On a side note to the developers, please don't be evil. pic.twitter.com/Y7qCpghfw9
- Nikk Mitchell ? (@nikkmitchell) September 2, 2019

Chinese technology commentator Matthew Brennan inserted himself into Big Bang Theory.

Chinese viral deepfakes app #ZAO Clip of myself as Sheldon generated in a few seconds from a single picture. pic.twitter.com/JI7MqWUDu6
- Matthew Brennan (@mbrennanchina) September 1, 2019

And Twitter user Andrew Rae transposed himself into Braveheart.

New Chinese app Zao does AI facial replacement in 10 seconds. That's me in the bottom-left corner. pic.twitter.com/z4EcAVm1g3
- Andrew Rae (@andrewfrae) September 2, 2019

Zao isn't currently available to non-Chinese users, but it's raising some concerns around privacy and the ethics of deepfakes

Behind Zao is Momo, a large social-media company which owns Chinese dating app Tantan.

and The Guardian reported that after going viral, privacy concerns started to crop up from users who had seen a line in the app's terms and conditions which stipulated the app had "free, irrevocable, permanent, transferable, and relicense-able" to user-generated content.

The backlash promoted WeChat, China's popular chat service, to block Zao on its platform.

Bloomberg reports that Zao quickly updated its terms, saying "headshots" and "mini-videos" won't be used for anything other to improve the app, or anything else pre-approved by the user.

The sudden backlash is reminiscent of the mistrust that surrounded FaceApp, a Russian app which used AI to apply various filters to users' faces to make them appear old or switch gender.

Zao also said in a statement, according to Bloomberg: "We understand the concern about privacy. We've received the feedback, and will fix the issues that we didn't take into consideration, which will need a bit of time."

Should Zao decide to make its app available more widely, it's likely Western users will still feel concern. China has used facial recognition technology to massively expand its surveillance network, and users will likely baulk at handing over personal data to an overseas developer.

Chinese selfie app Meitu likewise went viral in the West in 2017 for its beautification of photos, but was criticised for demanding access to excessive data like phone numbers and GPS co-ordinates.
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Unnerving Chinese Deepfake App Lets You Replace Celebrity Faces With Your Own

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China's iPhone users have found a new craze - a new app called Zao which lets people convincingly and hilariously transpose their faces onto actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Kit Harrington from Game of Thrones, and many others. Zao topped the Chinese iOS download chart over the weekend after first launching on the App Store on Friday.

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Photos taken minutes apart...but this influencer looks different

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Photos taken minutes apart...but this influencer looks different

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InstagraminfluencerTammy Hembrow has been caught in an awkward photoshopping scandal!

On Sunday, the popularfitness model posted an airbrushed photo of herself arching her back and flaunting her pert derriere in a pair of tiny denim shorts and a Louis Vuittonbikinitop. Taken while vacationing in Bali, the stunning snap highlighted Tammy's tiny waist.
WATCH: Tammy Hembrow passed out asleep and snoring at Coachella

While the photo raked in over 350, 000 likes, fans have since accused the fitnessbloggerof photoshopping her pictures after anAustraliantourist shared an unedited photo to Instagram posing with Tammy on the same day.

The fan's photograph- which was taken minutes after the GoodAmericanmodel and close friend of Khloe Kardashian uploaded her doctored snap tosocial media- shows off theInstagram model's broader looking shoulders, darker coloured eyes and rounder face. The photo, which Tammy has now 'hidden' from her tagged posts on Instagram also highlights her breast implants.

In Tammy's photo, her facial features appear smoother, she looks more tanned and there are no visible lines around her mouth and chin area.

This isn't the first time the mum to four-year-oldson Wolfand two-year-old daughter Saskia has come under fire for photoshopping her snaps. Earlier this year, eagle-eyed followers accused thecelebof allegedly changing the shape of her hips and waist after many spotted that the tiles in the background of her poolside picture were wonky and distorted.

"I love the hell outta her but why are the tiles so bent?" wrote one follower of theselfiequeen's questionable shot. "Photoshop Level 3000" and "there's something not right about the bellybutton miss," another Instagram user wrote.

Tammy has also been subject to a fake tan disaster or two! Arriving at the Fashion Nova X Cardi B collection event earlier this year, the YouTube star shocked fans when she appeared on the red carpet looking completely different- and they weren't talking about her pink hair! Her face was a different shade to her overly tanned neck.

The loveable Aussie celeb, who has 9.4 million followers, is probably best known for collapsing atKylie Jenner's birthday party last year, which resulted in the star being carried out on a stretcher.

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EXPOSED: This is what Tammy Hembrow looks like without photoshop

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Instagram influencer Tammy Hembrow has been caught in an awkward photoshopping scandal! Fans of the Australian fitness model have accused the Saski founder and mum-of-two of photoshopping her pictures after an Australian tourist shared an unairbrushed photo to Instagram posing with Tammy on the same day.

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There are a lot of filters, fakery and fun-filled images on Instagram. It's often hard to tell what's real and what's not, but one artist is showing us how the best images are made.

Calob Castellon is an incredible photographer with a flair for creating seemingly perfect photos with the use of simple everyday locations, props and lighting equipment.

He often includes the behind-the-scenes snaps to show the effort that goes into his photos, so it's well worth checking out his Instagram feed.

We've rounded up our favourites for you to enjoy.

This image is a perfect example of Calob Castellon's work. A hand-held light source, some heavy editing and a brilliantly creative idea results in a magnificent photo. A woman reaches out to touch a tiny glowing vision of the world that would make flat-earthers angry.

How many Instagram images show people in brilliantly beautiful spots showing off their amazing lives? How many of these images have been touched up? Probably a lot more than you realise. Some of them more than others. This before and after shot certainly shows the model in a new light. There wasn't even a lighthouse in the original photograph.

Some of Calob Castellon's shots show how the perfect image is often just a matter of perspective. Some editing, filters and more can turn a nice photo into an incredible one. Who'd have thought this image on the left was simply taken at the side of the street?

We've seen plenty of still photos of people leaping in the air. Perfectly timed images sure look great, but some editing can make for a much more interesting snap. The subject of this image now appears to be wearing rocket boots rather than just standard Converse shoes.

We love this behind-the-scenes shot as it demonstrates how Calob Castellon regularly uses everyday objects to enhance his images. A participant uses a smartphone to produce a glow on the model's face that is then carried through into the edited images. The final shot appears to show beautiful glowing butterflies lighting up her face, instead of a phone screen.

Another fantastic photo that shows sometimes you need to make maximum use of your surroundings and props in order to get the perfect image. There's no way this model could have leant against the window so casually without the aid of the wheelchair. The behind-the-scenes snap shows the hilarious effort that goes into what otherwise looks like an utterly chilled out shoot.

This colourful image appears to show someone reaching into a wormhole, in reality, it's just a man with his hands near a television. Careful cropping, some highlights and a brilliant light source can make all the difference.

Another example of Calob Castellon's work shows how lighting in the world around us can be used to brilliantly simple effect. With just the right pose and perfect placement of both the model and camera, a wonderfully moody image is created.

Who doesn't love a good game of the floor is lava? Real lava, on the other hand, is not to be messed with, unless of course, you have some brilliant photography skills.

A model poses on a bed with music playing in her ears and the lights around her dancing to the tunes. In reality, the room is full of light sources that include someone nearby holding a lamp above her to get the right glow on her head.

The photographer posted this image with the caption "When in doubt, use a bush. Never fails."

Amazingly, he's not wrong. A close-up and personal shot gives a much more romantic impression to an otherwise boring location.

Another snap with a portable light source used to create the fun of the final photo. It looks like a gamer has discovered an adventure quest or a power-up.

Clever lighting and masses of cotton wool apparently purchased from Walmart makes for a snazzy view that looks like a lady lost amongst the clouds. We'd hate to be the one who had to tidy up after this photoshoot, but there's no denying it's brilliant.

Why spend money on expensive photo studios or luxurious locations when you can get amazing shots like this by simply visiting your local hardware store?

Lighting is often a photographers biggest challenge - getting the right amount of light for the perfect photo can be tricky. But what if you can find a shoot location that already has all the lighting you could possibly need and some pretty nifty colourful backdrops too? Another trip to the shops might be the answer to your quest for masses of likes on Instagram.

Another of Calob Castellon's favourite techniques appears to be using TV screens and monitors to make up glowing backgrounds that can add a colourful glow to his photos. This is one such example, where the words glow as much as the photos.

Another simply brilliant shot taken with a colourful backdrop blended nicely into the foreground that appears to show digital rain falling all around.

If you haven't gathered by now, Calob Castellon's photos rely heavily on various different light sources to create magical results. As well as using smartphones and screens to create glows and real-world objects for bright backgrounds, he also likes to use special sprays and UV lights to create wonderful shots.

With this image, Calob Castellon talked a bit about what goes into creating this sort of image:

"A tripod, blacklight, neon paint, and z pair of sunglasses (for UV protection) is all you need for DIY glow shoot."

These are our favourites, are you feeling inspired to go out and create your own images now?

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Behind the scenes of Instagram: This artist shows us what goes into stunning shots

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There are a lot of filters, fakery and fun-filled images on Instagram. It's often hard to tell what's real and what's not, but one artist is showing us how the best images are made. Calob Castellon is an incredible photographer with a flair for creating seemingly perfect photos with the use of simple everyday locations, props and lighting equipment.

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Photoshop on social media and in magazines

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Photoshop on social media and in magazines

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Photoshop is a must-have in the media industry. Photographers can snap pictures of the most beautiful people in the world, but those people still have flaws. For some reason, it has become the norm to portray celebrities as perfect. They can't grace the cover of a top magazine without having their imperfections erased first.

The reliance on Photoshop has caused numerous problems with people believing their favourite celebrity is actually flawless. The retouched photos promote an unrealistic standard of beauty that young people look up to, and try to emulate. Realizing that magazine photos are not reality is important for people to accept their own flaws.

Celebrities know going in to a photo shoot that their pictures will probably be retouched to some extent. But sometimes, magazines go way too far in their pursuit of the perfect photo. They make pictures almost unrecognizable and ignite a firestorm of outrage. Luckily, a lot of celebrities are becoming more comfortable with what makes them human, and are fine with showing the world who they really are. Chrissy Teigen was praised recently for posted a photo of her stretchmarks on Instagram, and not being ashamed to show off a flaw that pretty much every woman has.

Photoshop has been the cause of numerous scandals, and the funny thing is, editors don't seem to be learning that people can tell when a photo has been manipulated way too much. The negative press ends up being a lot worse than if they had just left the photo alone from the beginning. Here are 10 of the biggest celebrity Photoshop related scandals to date.

10 Justin Bieber's Calvin Klein ad

Justin Bieber's recent Calvin Klein underwear ad campaign was supposed to be an homage to Mark Wahlberg's, but clearly, judging from the original picture on the left, Bieber isn't quite as beefy as Wahlberg.

Allegedly, someone who worked at Calvin Klein leaked the before-Photoshop pictures, and said that Bieber asked them to make him look "taller and buff". Of course, Bieber denied that he was Photoshopped at all. He also denied that his March 2015 Men's Health cover was enhanced, but people aren't buying that either.

Clearly, men have their own unrealistic beauty standards to live up to, and considering Bieber is only 21, his before photo isn't that different from what any guy his age could expect to look like.

9 Kerry Washington's InStyle cover

There was a lot of criticism over Kerry Washington's March 2015 cover of InStyle magazine because of the assumption that they lightened her skin tone. Washington herself wasn't bothered by the photo, and she shared it on her Instagram, captioned "I'm THRILLED to share with you all that I'm on the cover of this year's March @instylemagazine! Can't wait for you guys to see it and read it! So honored. And crazy excited."

But her fans thought she looked like a completely different person. InStyle released a statement, saying, "While we did not digitally lighten Kerry's skin tone, our cover lighting has likely contributed to this concern."

8 Lindsay Lohan's selfies

Lindsay Lohan hasn't been known for embracing her natural beauty for awhile now, but lately she's been accused of photoshopping her selfies for Instagram. In the above picture, the door is clearly all warped around her butt causing people to comment that not only has the photo obviously been altered, but altered very badly. If you're going to Photoshop, at least do it right.

In another Instagram selfie, Lindsay shows off an impossibly tiny waist and bumpy backside. The shampoo bottles on the counter behind her are all warped, making it pretty clear that she photoshopped the picture. After people started pointing out how obvious the photoshopping was, Lindsay deleted the pictures, but unfortunately for her, the internet doesn't forget.

7 Beyonce's thigh gap

Beyonce is the last person you'd expect to be promoting unrealistic body standards for women, but she's beeen accused multiple times of photoshopping a thigh gap into her Instagram pictures.

The thigh gap trend has gotten a lot of attention lately for being an unattainable, and unhealthy goal for most women. In the picture on the right especially, you can tell the step between her thighs is crooked making it look like the picture had be altered.

Beyonce never acknowledged the photoshopping rumours, and she has plenty of pictures that appear to be all natural, so maybe it was just a fluke.

6 Kim Kardashian on Complex

In 2009, Complex accidentally put the left photo (the un-retouched version) of Kim Kardashian up on their website. They noticed their mistake and quickly replaced it, but not before screenshots were taken, and outrage was expressed.

For her part, Kim simply said "So what? I have a little cellulite. What curvy girl doesn't? How many people do you think are Photoshopped? It happens all the time! I'm proud of my body and my curves, and this picture coming out is probably helpful for everyone to see that just because I am on the cover of a magazine doesn't mean I'm perfect." Well said.

5 Keira Knightley's King Arthur poster

Keira Knightly isn't shy or ashamed of her breasts being on the small side. She's even done a topless photo shoot on the condition that her breasts would not be altered in any way. But in the movie poster for 2004's King Arthur, Knightley's breasts were clearly photoshopped to look much bigger than they really are.

She spoke out about the poster, saying "market research that clearly shows that other women refuse to look at famous actresses and stars with small breasts" was responsible for the supposed need for Photoshop. Later in 2006, Knightley claimed she is "not allowed to be on a magazine cover in the US without at least a C cup because it 'turns people off'".'.

4 Julia Roberts' Lancome ad

Julia Roberts is the perfect example of a beautiful female celebrity who is aging gracefully. Although she was 44 at the time of the above Lancome campaign, she still looked (and still looks) amazing for her age.

That didn't stop Lancome from Photoshopping every single wrinkle and line out of her face. The result looks like a wax version of Roberts, and is completely unrealistic. So unrealistic that the UK's Advertising Standards Authority went so far as to ban the ad. They called the ad "misleading" but were unable to see the original photo due to a clause in Roberts' contract that stipulated no one was to be allowed to see the unaltered photos.

3 Zooey Deschanel's Rimmel ads

The purpose of makeup is to enhance your natural features, but for some reason, makeup companies always end up using Photoshop to do most of the work for their ads instead of letting their makeup speak for itself.

In the above ad, Rimmel photoshopped Zooey Deschanel so much that she looks more like some kind of robot than a human being. Not only is her skin unnaturally smooth, but they changed the shape of her lips and nose, making her look like a different person.

2 Eminem's XXL cover

As Justin Bieber already proved, men aren't immune from Photoshop disasters. This XXL cover features a strange looking, alien-like version of Eminem. His eyes look completely unnatural, like the person in charge in retouching had no idea what they were doing. Smoothing out wrinkles and imperfections is normal, but what was so wrong with Eminem's actual eyeballs that they needed to be replaced with cartoon eyeballs?

1 Lena Dunham's Vogue spread

Lena Dunham appeared on the cover of Vogue's February 2015 issue, and feminist website, Jezebel immediately offered the magazine $10,000 for access to the original, un-retouched photos. They assumed Vogue must have done a lot of altering since Dunham doesn't have the typical body type of their usual models.

Turns out Vogue did do some retouching, but not nearly as much as Jezebel suspected, and the website ended up looking like the bad guy for making such a big deal out of it.

Lena said of Jezebel's mistake, "Instead of going like, 'Hey, we kinda f***ed up, these pictures aren't that retouched Lena, enjoy the Vogue spread that you've been excited about since you were eight years old,' they were like, 'She's not retouched, but she could've been.' It was this weird almost political maneuvering that I just had a lot of trouble respecting."

Sources: huffingtonpost.com, messynessychic.com, gurl.com, madamenoire.com

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10 Of The Worst Celebrity Photoshop Scandals

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An Australian teenager with more than half a million followers on Instagram has quit the platform, describing it as "contrived perfection made to get attention", and called for others to quit social media - perhaps with help from her new website.

Essena O'Neill, 18, said she was able to make an income from marketing products to her 612,000 followers on Instagram - "$2000AUD a post EASY". But her dramatic rejection of social media celebrity has won her praise.

On 27 October she deleted more than 2,000 pictures "that served no real purpose other than self-promotion", and dramatically edited the captions to the remaining 96 posts in a bid to to reveal the manipulation, mundanity, and even insecurity behind them. O'Neill did not respond to requests for an interview.

A photo of her wearing a bikini, once captioned "Things are getting pretty wild at my house. Maths B and English in the sun," has been edited: "see how relatable my captions were - stomach sucked in, strategic pose, pushed up boobs. I just want younger girls to know this isn't candid life, or cool or inspirational. It's contrived perfection made to get attention."

A selfie posted by Essena O'Neill to Instagram 21 months ago. She edited the caption in late October. Photograph: Instagram

"Why would you tell your followers that you're paid a lot to promote what you promote? Why would you tell your followers that you literally just do shoots every day to take pictures for Instagram?" she said in a 22-minute vlog posted to YouTube, titled "HOW PEOPLE MAKE 1000's ON SOCIAL MEDIA". "Like, it's not cool. No one thinks that's radical, or revolutionary.

"Yet I, myself, was consumed by it. This was the reason why I quit social media: for me, personally, it consumed me. I wasn't living in a 3D world."

"I remember I obsessively checked the like count for a full week since uploading it," she wrote of her first-ever post, a selfie that now has close to 2,500 likes. "It got 5 likes. This was when I was so hungry for social media validation ... Now marks the day I quit all social media and focus on real life projects."

A photo posted by Essena O'Neill to Instagram 21 months ago. She edited the caption in late October. Photograph: Instagram

This includes letsbegamechangers.com, O'Neill's new site "aimed to inspire constant QUESTIONING", where there's "no likes or views or followers ... just my content as raw as I want". In her first post, dated 31 October, she challenged her followers to go a week without social media, and recommended Eckhart Tolle's book The Power of Now.

The site will cover "veganism, creative imagery with purpose, poems, writing, interviews with people that inspire me, and of course the finical reality behind deluding people off Instagram" [sic]. She will continue to post videos about vegan eating to YouTube, but Vimeo ("made to help not to get views or $$$") will "host all the new quality content".

But O'Neill's "crisis of conscience", as it was described by US Magazine, seems to be extending to more than just the manipulation of social media. O'Neill, whose veganism has long been a cornerstone of her online presence, edited the caption of a photograph of scrambled eggs and bacon pre-dating her change in diet to read "Chicken periods scrambled up with pig flesh 😭".

A snapshot of her fishing now refers to "how fun ... to put a hook through an innocent beings mouth"; one of a pile of chocolate bars is described as "Poison and Violence". "I wish I would have been more conscious to see how white privileged I was," she writes of her time spent volunteering in Laos.

The one image to survive with O'Neill's ringing endorsement is of a smiling quokka.

O'Neill's debunking of online celebrity was widely discussed on social media.

A fellow vegan, Australian Instagram star Bonny Rebecca - a friend of O'Neill's - said at first she "may have been confused" by the rebrand, because her own experiences of social media have been "very positive".

Rebecca commented to a follower on Tumblr: "Obviously it's been super hard for me because Essena has put out all this information about what SOME instagramers are like, then left social media and of course I have been left with everyone comparing us and thinking that she is implying those concepts are relevant to my account. And man that is not fair, because thats NEVER what I have been about."

A photo of posted by Essena O'Neill to Instagram Photograph: Instagram

But she was supportive of O'Neill's decision.

"So many people strive to be 'popular' online to validate themselves, manipulating photos and captions to give the idea they are happy just to get 'followers' ... And be 'idolised'... When NONE of that truly matters and that's what can be wrong with social media! Essena is exposing that(!!!) and that is a big game changer 😉 ," she captioned a photo of the two of them together that had attracted 13,800 likes.

O'Neill would "still be creating awesome content", concluded Rebecca - and in the meantime, she had uploaded her own vlog about the drama, "where I try to shed some light on the situation and my thoughts".

"Why would you tell your followers that you're paid a lot to promote what you promote? Why would you tell your followers that you literally just do shoots every day to take pictures for Instagram? [..] It's not cool. No one thinks that's radical, or revolutionary. Yet I, myself, was consumed by it. This was the reason why I quit social media: for me, personally, it consumed me. I wasn't living in a 3D world."

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Update: On January 19, 2017, following PETA's call for a boycott of A Dog's Purpose, Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment have canceled the film's Hollywood premiere, originally scheduled for Saturday, January 21. They released a statement saying, "Because Amblin's review into the edited video released yesterday is still ongoing, distributor Universal Pictures has decided it is in the best interest of A Dog's Purpose to cancel this weekend's premiere and press junket." The film is still scheduled to hit theatres on Friday, January 27, and activists will be protesting throughout its opening weekend all across the country.
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As reported by TMZ, a shocking video allegedly taken on the set of the upcoming film A Dog's Purpose appears to show an animal handler forcing a terrified German shepherd-type dog into the waters of an intensely swirling pool. The clip concludes when the dog is pulled beneath the raging waters, prompting a group of people to rush over, seemingly in an attempt to rescue the animal.

The apparent on-set incident, which is hard to watch, may come as an unwelcome surprise to unsuspecting moviegoers who care about dogs-especially given the title of the film, based on the hit book of the same name. But to those who know the chronic neglect uncovered at a facility operated by Birds & Animals Unlimited (BAU)-the company that, according to a facility manager, supplied the dogs used in the film-this incident is just another drop in a very saddening bucket. Watch the video for yourself now:

BAU, operated by Hollywood animal trainer Gary Gero, provides animals for use in film, television, and advertisements. It has rented out animals to hundreds of other productions, including The Hangover, Marley and Me, Game of Thrones, and Pirates of the Caribbean. An eyewitness who worked at BAU documented chronic neglect, including sick and injured animals who went without adequate veterinary care, filthy enclosures, and animals who were denied food so that they would be hungry while trained to do tricks.

Sadly, such abuse appears to be the norm, not the exception, in the entertainment industry, where animal suffering is just "business as usual" for humans trying to make a buck.

What You Can Do

The living conditions documented at BAU are not uncommon for animals used in entertainment, and as this video shows, animal suffering may not end at BAU's complex but continue right onto movie sets.

Show everyone why they should #BoycottADogsPurpose! Tag @peta in a post of your dog & their special purpose ❤️ https://t.co/2yRgPkfFFQ pic.twitter.com/97F19RMaO2

- PETA (@peta) January 19, 2017

Please, pledge to avoid contributing to this cruel practice by not buying tickets to A Dog's Purpose or any other movies that use live animals.

Share this video with your family and friends who care about dogs-and all animals. Let them know that animals aren't "actors" and that they often suffer both on and off camera when used for entertainment.

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Fyre Festival: Anatomy of a Millennial Marketing Fiasco Waiting to Happen

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Billy McFarland sold elite millennials (and his investors) on an ultra-luxurious "Coachella in the Bahamas," but the much-ridiculed fiasco that actually took place in April derailed the 25-year-old serial entrepreneur's checkered bid for moguldom. Inside what could be the biggest scam of the year.

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Actresses Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes appeared in the March issue of Cosmopolitan Philippines.

In a series of Instagram posts in honor of International Women's Day, the actresses accused the publication of Photoshopping their waists.

Reinhart wrote, "It's sad that you felt our bodies needed to be slimmed down...So like every other day, women...do kick some ass. You are being heard. You are strong and sensational."

Mendes added, "Let it be known that the original [Cosmopolitan] included our natural silhouettes, and we're relieved that they didn't see our waistlines as something that needed tweaking."

In a series of Instagram story posts, actress Lili Reinhart, star of The CW's "Riverdale," accused Cosmopolitan Philippines of Photoshopping photos of her and fellow "Riverdale" actress Camila Mendes their March cover stories.

In honor of International Women's Day, Reinhart posted a series of comments on her Instagram Story.

"Over the last year, we've seen an unprecedented movement for women's rights, and one thing is clear: our time is now. We are phenomenal, and we will make the world a better place for all women," Reinhart wrote.

She then proceeded to mention that despite the progress that has been made towards women's rights and equality over the past few years, there is still a long way to go. She cited the alleged Photoshopping to make them appear thinner as an example.

Reinhart and Mendes appeared on the February cover of Cosmopolitan magazine dressed in bandeaus with their midriffs showing. It was then announced that Mendes would serve as the cover star for the March issue of Cosmopolitan Philippines while Reinhart would be featured within the pages of the magazine.

In her Instagram posts, Reinhart accused Cosmopolitan Philippines of Photoshopping both of the actresses' waists.

She set the February and March issues of the US and Philippines magazines side by side to show the apparent difference.

"Camila and I worked incredibly hard to feel confident in the bodies we have," she wrote. "It's an everyday battle, sometimes. And to see our bodies become so distorted in an editing process is a perfect example of the obstacles we have yet to overcome."

Relating the Photoshopping issue back to International Women's Day, she wrote, "We cannot stop fighting. Our battle has only just begun. We are f------ powerful, beautiful and strong ... we aren't going to hide behind Photoshop [sic] to conform to beauty standards."

Reinhart added, "It's sad that you felt our bodies needed to be slimmed down ... So like every other day, women ... do kick some ass. You are being heard. You are strong and sensational."

Towards the end of the series of posts, Reinhart thanked the team of the February Cosmopolitan cover for not Photoshopping their bodies.

Mendes then posted about the accusations on her own Instagram story, writing, "We want readers to know that those bodies are not ours; they have been distorted from their natural beauty. We prefer to see our bodies the way they actually are. I'm not interested in having a slimmer waist, I'm more than satisfied with the one that I already have."

She concluded her posts by writing, "Also, let it be known that the original @cosmopolitan included our natural silhouettes, and we're relieved that they didn't see our waistlines as something that needed tweaking."

Cosmopolitan Philippines did not immediately respond to INSIDER's request for comment.
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Some are questioning a statement made by President Donald Trump during a rally on Thursday where he claimed he was named Michigan's Man of the Year. The award, however, doesn't appear to exist.

The statement came about 30 minutes into Trump's 90-minute speech at his re-election rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, as the president thanked Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel for her work.

McDaniel is the former Michigan GOP chair, who Trump credited in the speech with helping him win the state during the 2016 general election.

"I used to complain and you know I just -- I'd go [to Michigan] and I'd say, 'They're stealing your car business,'" Trump said. "I go for years. In fact, five or six years before I even thought about running, for whatever reason they named me man of the year in Michigan. I said, how come? I didn't even understand it myself, but I was named man of the year. I wasn't even political. That was years before I did this, but I was always complaining that our car business is being stolen."

Trump continued by saying that Mexico has gained 32 percent of the U.S. auto industry adding that it "all left the state of Michigan."

"We are bringing it back at a level that nobody has ever seen before - our car business," the president added.

While Trump has often touted the success his administration is having on bringing back manufacturing jobs to the United States, the claim of receiving Michigan's Man Of The Year award is the seventh time he has made such a statement.

However, a search performed by Newsweek did not find any sort of 'Man of the Year' award for Michigan that isn't connected to a specific group or non-profit organization. Of those groups, Trump was not among the winners listed, and no award with that name appears related to the auto industry.

The Detroit News also publishes a Michiganians of the Year list, but Trump does not appear nor would it seem that the president qualifies for consideration as he is not a Michigan resident.

According to The Huffington Post, Trump first touted the award as a presidential candidate on Nov 3, 2016 while speaking about Michigan's auto industry. At that time, he stated he was given the award "five years ago," which would mean sometime in 2011.

At the campaign stop, Trump went on to describe the speech he gave when accepting the award, saying, "during my speech, all I talked about is what Mexico and these other countries are doing to us. And especially what they're doing to Michigan. That's all I talked about. And I was criticized. They said, 'Donald, speak about something else.' I said, 'No. What's happening is horrible.'"

Trump has repeated the claim during a roundtable discussion in Michigan in 2017 and during a rally in Wisconsin earlier this year, CNN said.

In 2015, Trump was named runner up for Time's Man of the Year prize. The Post said that the president also received similar designations from the United Services Organization (USO) in 2002, and from World Net Daily, a conservative news website, in 2015. He was also named 'statesmen of the year' by the Republican Party of Sarasota County in 2012. However, none of those awards were issued by any organization in Michigan, nor did they occur in 2011.

MLive.com also did a deep dive of their archives, which includes eight newspapers from around Michigan, and came up empty in searching for Trump's elusive Man Of the Year award. The publication also reached out to the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, who said they were also unaware of any type of award with that name.

CNN's Daniel Dale attributes Trump's comments to a speech made in 2013 at the Oakland County, Michigan GOP Lincoln Day Dinner. According to Dale, Former Michigan congressman Dave Trott said he invited Trump to speak at the dinner but there was no award given to him.

Trott also told Dale that he was present at the 2017 roundtable when Trump mentioned the award, but that he didn't correct the president at the time since he was then a member of Congress.

Trott says that Trump thanked him for the alleged award at a 2017 roundtable with auto CEOs. Trott says he wasnâ€™t about to correct Trump in front of CEOs while in Congress, but now heâ€™s out of office and doesnâ€™t care, so he can say Trump made it up.
- Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 16, 2019

Newsweek has reached out to Trump's 2020 campaign and the White House for comment.
This article has been updated with information reported by CNN's Daniel Dale.

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Eight DeepFake Examples That Terrified the Internet

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The best deepfake examples continue to amaze us, whilst also raising concerns about whether we can be sure what's real. Over a few short years, technology like AI and deepfaking has advanced to the point where it's becoming really quite difficult to see the flaws in these creations. They used to all have that "uncanny valley" feel that made it obvious that what we were looking at isn't real, but we've seen increasingly convincing deepfake examples in the last year or so.

In this roundup, we've attempted to show a wide variation of deepfake examples - from the most realistic edits to ones that are purely for entertainment purposes. Deepfakes have been used for various purposes, mainly for entertainment and parody. But as the technology improves and becomes more accessible, we have also seen some misuse to try and spread misinformation by impersonating important public figures like politicians.

But what actually is a deepfake? Scroll down to the bottom for a briefing on how the technology works, but at the most basic level a deepfake is a video that uses impressive technology to replicate a subject's likeness to replace another's face - essentially shape-shifting one person into another The results can be impressive and very funny, but they can also raise concerns about privacy, manipulation and authenticity. For more on the wider phenomenon of AI-generated imagery, see our guide to how to use DALL-E 2 and how the best AI art generators compare. In the meantime here are the best deepfake examples we've seen so far.

The best deepfake examples

01. This is not Morgan Freeman

One of the most scarily convincing deepfakes is this Morgan Freeman deepfake. The video was first shared by Dutch deepfake YouTube Channel Diep Nep last year, crediting the concept to Bob de Jong and the (very good) voice acting to Boet Schouwink.

The video's still hugely impressive, and frightening, a year on, as we saw when it resurfaced on Twitter last month. "How can this tech NOT be deployed in the 2024 election?" one user commented. "Soon we'll see that even this is essentially child's play when it comes to the actual, ever-present (yet invisible) capabilities of identity manipulation and whole-cloth digital identity creation...the implications of which are far-reaching & bone chilling," someone added.

02. The Shining starring Jim Carrey

Bizarre film/actor crossovers are popular amongst deepfake creators; you can find plenty of them on YouTube (including the above Jerry Seinfield and Pulp Fiction mashup). This terrifyingly good edit sees Jim Carrey take on the role of Jack Torrence in a series of videos showing the most important moments from the 1980 film The Shining. It's scarily convincing, and makes us want to see Jim Carrey staring in a horror film. His exaggerated expressions would be perfect.

If you want to see a better comparison of the Deepfake edit versus the original, the creators Ctrl Shift Face have uploaded a before and after of the Jack to Jimmy transformation.

03. Spider-man: No Way Home but it's Tobey Maguire

Everyone has a favourite Spider-man actor, and if your favourite is Tobey Maguire you'll love this particular edit. Popular deepfake creator Shamook took the Spider-man: No Way Home trailer and replaced Tom Holland's face with the original spidey, Tobey Maguire. It's a subtle effect, but executed brilliantly so you can barely tell there's been a change at all.

This kind of edit makes us wonder what the future of film could look like using this technology. Imagine being able to choose your preferred actor to play the lead in the film you're watching. Wild.

04. Jerry Seinfeld in Pulp Fiction

This hilarious and perfectly executed creation sees DesiFakes puts Jerry Seinfeld into one of the most famous scenes from Pulp Fiction, and it works fantastically. The audio editing is as important as the visuals here, with perfect timing right down to the inappropriate canned laughter and the jingle and credit roll. The facial expressions could come straight out of a Seinfeld episode. This is the kind of things deepfakes were made for.

05. The deepfake Tom Cruise on TikTok

@deeptomcruise
Keep your hands clean.
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Deepfakes have come so far in recent years that there's now a TikTok account dedicated entirely to Tom Cruise deepfakes. There's still a hint of the uncanny valley about @deeptomcruise's videos, but his mastery of the actor's voice and mannerisms along with the use of rapidly advancing technology has resulted in some of the most convincing deepfake examples yet.

Videos show Cruise doing everything from golfing to demonstrating a magic trick, even in everyday situations like washing his hands. The description of the TikTok account simply reads, "Parody. Also younger."

06. The Mandalorian Luke Skywalker deepfake

Star Wars fandom exploded at the sight of Luke Skywalker in the season two finale of The Mandalorian. Once the space dust eventually settled though, viewers were quick to point out what they saw as flaws in the digital recreation of a younger Mark Hamill. Once again, YouTuber Shamook had a go at deepfaking a Return of the Jedi-era Luke Skywalker with very impressive results.

In fact, it was later confirmed that Shamook had been hired by none other than Industrial Light and Magic, the legendary visual effects company that help bring the Star Wars galaxy to life. Deepfake technology is now being used to shape the galaxy far far away.

07. The deepfake Keanu Reeves on TikTok

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Cruise isn't the only phoney celeb with his own TikTok following. He's since been joined on the platform by a deepfake Keanu Reeves and many more. Unreal_Keanu has picked up an incredible 7.4 million followers, who seem to love the references to his movie rolls, his dancing (it is TikTok) and jokes about living with a partner.

As with Cruise above, this particular deepfake celeb is being used for laughs and isn't being passed off as real. But despite the humour, it shows the risks deepfakes pose for celebs. On the one hand, the tech could allow celebrities to sell their image to brands without having to go to the trouble of actually filming a spot or going to a photoshoot. But on the other side, there have already been reports of unscrupulous brands using deepfakes to push their products without the celebs' permission.

08. Korean newsreader Kim Joo-Ha

Many deepfake examples are fun parodies or experiments designed to test the limits of deep learning technology. However, perhaps the biggest indication that deepfakes could become part of everyday mainstream media came late last year when the Korean television channel MBN presented viewers with a deepfake of its own news anchor Kim Joo-Ha.

The channel warned viewers in advance that the newsreader would be faked, and Kim Joo-Ha still has her job. However, MBN said it planned to continue using the deepfake for some breaking news reports, and the company behind the deepfake, South Korea's DeepBrain AI (formerly known as Moneybrain), has said that it's looking for media buyers in China and the US, leading some to fear that newsreaders may become obsolete.

09. Wonder Woman

Remakes and reboots continue to be a massive part of the modern film landscape. Whenever new actors are cast in classic roles, comparisons are inevitably made between the different portrayals. Deepfake technology has allowed people to take those comparisons one step further, by putting one actor in the place of another for a sequence, highlighting similarities and differences that are incredibly interesting to observe.

This example, from DeepFaker, places actress Lynda Carter, from the classic '70s Wonder Woman TV show, into the reimagined world and costume of Gal Gadot's big-screen Wonder Woman - with breathtaking results.

10. The deepfake Snoop Dogg Doggy Dog tarot readings

Phoneline fortune telling used to dominate late night TV in many places, with viewers phoning in to have their future told to them by highly dubious psychics. It was a shady business, so it seems rather app for deepfake treatment, and who better to star in it than West Coast gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg. This hilarious deepfake is the work of Brian Monarch.

11. Deepfake Roundtable

The entertainment landscape is undergoing a seismic shift right now, as streaming services like Netflix battle with the big screen for attention. With this in mind, Collider put together this hilarious deepfake with the super recognisable faces of Tom Cruise, Robert Downey, Jr, George Lucas, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Goldblum discussing streaming and the future of cinema. This is a favourite of ours not only because it's incredibly convincing but also because it's a highly amusing video. As one commenter puts it, this is 'scary good'.

12. Donald Trump joins Breaking Bad

This video takes a scene from the mega-popular Breaking Bad series and introduces Donald Trump as crooked lawyer Saul Goodman. In the scene, Goodman explains the basics of money laundering to Jesse Pinkman, played in the show by Aaron Paul. To add a touch of realism, Donald Trump's deepfaked son-in-law Jared Kushner takes over from Paul, making the parody an almost personal heart-to-heart.

YouTube creators Ctrl Shift Face, the team behind the parody, used DeepFaceLab to create Trump and Kushner's faces frame by frame. The voices, which complete the scene, were provided by Stable Voices, a custom AI model that is trained on real speech samples.

Donald Trump must be one of the people who has most been subject to deepfakes, often with very amusing results. In fact, the creators of South Park originally planned to make an entire movie out of their Sassy Justice (see below). Deep Fake: The Movie appears to be currently on hold, but this is a taster of what it might look like.

13. Obama's public service announcement

Many of the most convincing deepfake examples have been created with the help of impersonators that mimick the source's voice and gestures, just like this video produced by BuzzFeed and comedian Jordan Peele using After Effects CC and FakeApp. Peele's mouth was pasted over Obama's, replacing the former president's jawline with one that followed Peele's mouth movements. FakeApp was then used to refine the footage through more than 50 hours of automatic processing.

Politicians and celebrities are often the subjects of deepfakes. Less than a year before the above video, University of Washington computer scientists used neural network AI to model the shape of Obama's mouth and make it lip sync to audio input.

High-profile figures make for such perfect sources in deepfaking because their public profiles provide plenty of source material for an AI to learn from, but with the number of selfies the average person takes in a lifetime and rapid technological advances, perhaps soon anyone could be used as a source.

14. Zuckerberg speaks frankly

In response to Facebook's refusal to remove a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi, artist Bill Posters posted this deepfake on Facebook-owned Instagram, showing Mark Zuckerberg boasting of how the platform "owns" its users. Would Facebook react differently when its own founder was being manipulated?

The film originally formed part of Posters' and Daniel Howe's Spectre piece, which was commissioned for Sheffield Doc Fest to draw attention to how people can be manipulated by social media. It was made using Israeli startup Canny AI's VDR (video dialogue replacement) software, which it's promoted with a deepfake singalong starring various world leaders.

Instagram didn't take the Zuckerberg video down, but said it would, "treat this content the same way we treat all misinformation on Instagram. If third-party fact checkers mark it as false, we will filter it." The posters had flagged it using the hashtag #deepfake. While the video is reasonably convincing on mute, the voice gives it away, showing that a good actor is still needed to make plausible deepfake examples (although AI voice synthesis has been advancing by leaps and bounds, so perhaps not for long).

15. Donald Trump lectures Belgium

Trump again! This one's an old one, but it's notable for having been the first example of a political party using a deepfake, Belgium's Socialistische Partij Anders (sp.a) posted this video on Facebook back in May 2018 showing Trump taunting Belgium for remaining in the Paris climate agreement. With Trump's hair looking even stranger than usual and the crude movement of the mouth, it's very clearly fake, and the voiceover says as much, though the final line "We all know that climate change is fake, just like this video," isn't subtitled in Flemish, but it was still enough to provoke one user to comment "Trumpy needs to look at his own country with its crazy child killers," and for sp.a to have to clarify it was fake.

A more convincing Trump (below) was later created by YouTuber Derpfakes, who trained DeepFaceLab to map a composite of Trump's face over Alec Baldwin's Saturday Night Live impersonation of him, showing how far the technology has come in a year. The video has been blocked in the US and Canada.

16. Dove's Toxic Advice deepfake

Here's an example of deepfakes being used by a major brand, and for a marketing campaign with a positive mission. Dove used deepfake technology to put very unlikely advice into the mouths of the mothers of teenage girls, the aim being to raise awareness of the negative impact of a lot of the dangerous 'beauty' advice shared by influencers on social media apps. In the campaign video, the participants sit mouths wide, clearly horrified by the distorted advice being given by their mums. Entitled Toxic Influence, the ad was created by Ogilvy.

17. Bill Hader morphs into Pacino and Schwarzenegger

If a great impersonation is the basis of a convincing deepfake then this video of actor and comedian Bill Hader morphing into Hollywood legends Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't fail. Although the team at Ctrl Shift Face aren't trying to trick anyone with this video, they do demonstrate how crucial it is to have an actor that can capture the mannerisms of your source. The subtle morphing of Hader's face into that of Pacino and then Schwarzenegger is slightly terrifying and completely hilarious.

18. Salvador Dalí comes back to life

Agency GS&P pulled off the kind of headline-grabbing stunt that the publicity-loving Dalí would have appreciated when they resurrected the Catalan artist as a charismatic host at the Dalí Museum in Florida. Billed as "art meets artificial intelligence", Dalí Lives was created by pulling more than 6,000 frames from old video interviews and processing them through 1,000 hours of machine learning before overlaying the source onto an actor's face. The text was comprised of quotes from interviews and letters with new commentary designed to help visitors empathise with the artist and relate to his work.

The novelty of this deepfake example is its interactivity. A total 45 minutes of footage split over 125 videos allows for more than 190,000 possible combinations depending on visitor responses and even includes comments on the weather. It finishes with Dalí turning around and snapping a selfie with his audience. Dalí claimed it was unlikely he would ever die, and maybe he was right, because he was brought to life a second time recently by Samsung's AI lab in Moscow, this time by training AI on landmark facial features from just a handful of images rather than the usual thousands.

19. The Volodymyr Zelensky deepfake

A deepfake of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling on his soldiers to lay down their weapons was reportedly uploaded to a hacked Ukrainian news website today, per @Shayan86 pic.twitter.com/tXLrYECGY4 March 16, 2022

Fortunately, most known deepfake examples online are clearly flagged as fake and are not intended to fool anyone. They're usually being played for laughs, for example, putting Nicolas Cage in every film ever produced, or at worst for sordid fantasy (deepfake celebrity porn through which the tech first took root has been banned). But there have been cases of people using deepfakes for nefarious ends and trying to pass them off as real.

This frightening example was broadcast on a hacked Ukrainian TV station barely a month into the Russian invasion of the country. It shows the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky ordering the country's troops to surrender to Russia. Although the quality is poor and it doesn't look very convincing, it's an example of why people are so concerned that deepfakes could be used to spread fake news.

20. Yang Mi travels in time

Back in 2019, a video pasting the face of Yang Mi, one of China's best-known contemporary actors into the 1983 Hong Kong television drama The Legend Of The Condor Heroes went viral, racking up a reported 240 million views before it was removed by Chinese authorities.

Its creator, a fan of Yang Mi, issued an apology on microblogging site Weibo and said he'd made the video as a warning to raise awareness of the technology. We can actually see lots of possible uses of deepfakes for the film and television industry. It's also possible to see how the industry could eventually embrace the technology and turn it to profit by allowing viewers to play director on home releases, manipulating dialogue, incorporating alternative scenes or even inserting themselves as characters. We won't be surprised if we see a lot of video games with celebrity appearances too.
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Epstein not dead? Conspiracy theories abound

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Epstein not dead? Conspiracy theories abound

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EDIT: I fully expect a nice 30 day ban after this post. Screenshot it before it disappears. Epstein dead by suicide. Not a chance he is dead. Very well protected. In Federal custody in Maximum...

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The Number of Bumps on a Bell Pepper Determines its Gender

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The Number of Bumps on a Bell Pepper Determines its Gender

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https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/aug/27/viral-image/bell-peppers-dont-have-genders/

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Mark Levin Accuses Media Creates Pseudo Events

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Mark Levin Accuses Media Creates Pseudo Events

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/29/mark_levin_media_creates_pseudo-events_to_report_on_them_and_repeat_them.html

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Australian Prime Minister Photoshop Fail

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Australian Prime Minister Photoshop Fail

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https://nypost.com/2019/01/09/photoshop-fail-turns-australian-prime-ministers-family-portrait-into-a-joke/

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Donald Trump's tariffs on China don't hurt Americans, top Trump adviser says

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Donald Trump's tariffs on China don't hurt Americans, top Trump adviser says

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U.S. tariffs on China are "not hurting anybody" in the United States.

By Tom Kertscher on Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 at 3:12 p.m.

Are the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on China hurting American consumers? His team says no.

Peter Navarro, director of the White House's Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, told CNN's Jake Tapper that was not the case. Tapper asked about a study that found U.S. importers are shouldering about 95% of the price change from the tariffs, China only about 5%.

After Navarro pushed back, there was this exchange:

"Tariffs aren't hurting anybody in the United States?" asked Tapper.

Navarro responded, "They're not hurting anybody here."

The White House didn't respond to our requests for information to support Navarro's statement.

But evidence to the contrary is overwhelming.

Importers can respond to tariffs in four ways, Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, told us.

Two of the ways are paying their suppliers less and buying from producers in countries not subject to the tariffs; those moves would shield Americans.

But the other two ways - raising prices or absorbing the tariffs and cutting into their bottom line - do make an impact.

It's worth noting that, in the back-and-forth of the trade war, China has done a series of its own tariff reductions. That helps U.S. exporters.

But despite claims by Trump that China has been slashing prices, Brookings economist Gary Burtless and Boise State University political scientist Ross Burkhart said they see no evidence of price slashing as a result of the U.S. tariffs - at least on any scale as large as the impact of the tariffs.

Evidence of how tariffs have hurt Americans has been accumulating for months.

Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Costco and the recreational vehicle-maker Winnebago are among retailers that said they raised prices as a result of the tariffs.

The trade war reduced U.S. real income by $1.4 billion per month by the end of 2018, according to economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Princeton University and Columbia University.

The price of washing machines sold in the United States rose nearly 12% because of the 2018 tariffs, according to University of Chicago researchers. (The price of dryers rose by a similar amount, even though they weren't subject to the tariffs.)

Meanwhile, retaliatory tariffs imposed by China have particularly hurt U.S. farmers. U.S. agricultural exports to China dropped to $9.1 billion in 2018, down from $19.5 billion the previous year, according to the American Farm Bureau, an agricultural lobbying group. That figure has continued to drop, with exports to China in the first half of 2019 sinking to $1.3 billion. Trump has responded by boosting subsidies to farmers.

Trump's plan to impose more tariffs on China in September 2019 will reduce consumer purchases, raise prices and limit hiring, according to four national retail groups.

Studies have also consistently documented the general impact on Americans.

About 79% of manufacturers and 60% of service firms said tariffs had increased their input costs at least slightly, "a considerably more widespread effect" than in its survey a year earlier. That's according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York August 2019 survey of business leaders in New York and parts of Connecticut and New Jersey.

The impact of tariffs on imports of steel and Chinese goods that were imposed in 2018 was largely on the United States, not China, according to the study Tapper alluded to. It was done by researchers from Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

A variety of companies have reported harm from the U.S. and retaliatory tariffs, including Walmart, Caterpillar and Tyson Foods, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found.

Navarro said U.S. tariffs on China are "not hurting anybody" in the United States.

Numerous businesses, ranging from Coca-Cola, to Walmart to Costco to washing machine makers, raised prices because of the tariffs. And study after study has confirmed that the tariffs primarily hit Americans, not China. It's simply ridiculous to make a flat claim that the tariffs aren't hurting anyone in the United States.

We rate this statement Pants on Fire.

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Are the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on China hurting American consumers? His team says no. Peter Navarro, director of the White House's Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, told CNN's Jake Tapper that was not the case. Tapper asked about a study that found U.S.