Deepfakes and Cyberbullying

A mother in PA is arrested after it is discovered she has been cyberbullying teammates on her daughter's cheer team. She altered photos of the young women and shared them through anonymous texts and posts. 

This technology adds a disturbing concern to the threat of cyberbullying. "This is a concern, Mr. Ajder said, as it could be used in crude ways to attack individuals, create political disinformation, make cybersecurity vulnerable, conduct fraud and manipulate stock markets."

"The police suspect that the altered media was created through deepfake technology, which is becoming both more sophisticated and accessible, playing into experts’ concerns that it can be used to harass or commit crimes. With deepfake technology, people can take a still image and map it onto an existing video to disparagingly alter the appearance of someone."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/14/us/raffaela-spone-victory-vipers-deepfake.html

This video contains great information on deepfakes:


https://youtu.be/-yQxsIWO2ic 


This trend is not going away and the technology is only improving. 

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