ThomsonReuters: “Will an increasing amount of deepfakes — deceptive images, content, and videos often created by AI and floated on the internet — start making us doubt our own eyes? The most recent Indiana Jones movie shows actor Harrison Ford de-aged by 40-plus years. The movie makers used artificial intelligence to comb through all of the decades-old footage of the actor and create a younger Ford. This technology is called deepfake, and it is not just catching on in entertainment, but it is also a growing concern in cybersecurity. Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive from a British energy company. This event does not seem all that out of the ordinary, except that the executive was not even a real person. Thieves used voice-mimicking software in order to imitate the real executive — and they got away with it. Using artificial intelligence (AI), deepfake technologies can generate or manipulate digital media, particularly video and audio content, in a way that is difficult for viewers to distinguish from authentic, original material. It involves using machine learning algorithms to synthesize new content that is based on existing data, such as images or videos of real people…”