Organizations, studies and events against synthetic human-like fakes: Difference between revisions

* [[FacePinPoint.com]], a crucial past service by Lionel Hagege

* [[Adequate Porn Watcher AI (concept)]], an AI concept practically identical with FacePinPoint.com

In [[resources]] there are likely a few services that would fit here.

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=== Organizations against synthetic human-like fakes ===

* [https://lab.witness.org/ '''The WITNESS Media Lab''' at lab.witness.org] by [[w:Witness (organization)]][https://www.witness.org/get-involved/ contact form]) ([https://www.witness.org/get-involved/ contact form])<ref group="contact">

** [https://lab.witness.org/projects/synthetic-media-and-deep-fakes/ '''Prepare, Don’t Panic: Synthetic Media and Deepfakes''' at lab.witness.org] is a summary page for WITNESS Media Lab's ongoing work against synthetic human-like fakes. Their work was launched in '''2018''' with the first multi-disciplinary convening around deepfakes preparedness which lead to the writing of the [http://witness.mediafire.com/file/q5juw7dc3a2w8p7/Deepfakes_Final.pdf/file  '''report''' “'''Mal-uses of AI-generated Synthetic Media and Deepfakes: Pragmatic Solutions Discovery Convening'''”] (dated 2018-06-11). [https://blog.witness.org/2018/07/deepfakes/ '''''Deepfakes and Synthetic Media: What should we fear? What can we do?''''' at blog.witness.org]

* [https://www.realitydefender.ai/ '''Reality Defender''' at realitydefender.ai] - ''Enterprise-Grade Deepfake Detection Platform'' for many stakeholders

* Phone 1-864-656-3311

=== Organizations possibly against synthetic human-like fakes ===

* a@ethical.institute

* 2021-08-14 used the contact form at https://ethical.institute/#contact

* No physical contact info

* 2021-08-14 | Subscribed to newsletter

* San Francisco, California 94104

* USA

* 2021-08-14 | Subscribed to mailing list

* [https://ainowinstitute.org/ '''The Ai Now Institute''' at ainowinstitute.org] ([https://ainowinstitute.org/contact.html contact form] and possibility to subscribe to mailing list)<ref group="contact">

Contact  

Email

* info@ainowinstitute.org

* 2021-08-14 | Subscribed to mailing list

</ref> at [[w:New York University]]<ref group="1st seen in" name="EU-Parl-Ethical-AI-Study-2020"/>. Their work is licensed under a '''Creative Commons''' Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. [https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-now-institute/about/ The Ai Now Institute on LinkedIn.com]

* [https://responsiblerobotics.org/ '''The Foundation for Responsible Robotics''' at responsiblerobotics.org] ([https://responsiblerobotics.org/contact/ contact form])<ref group="contact">

Email

* info@counterhate.com

* 2021-08-14 | Subscribed to mailing list

=== Events against synthetic human-like fakes ===

* '''2020 - ONGOING''' | '''[[w:National Institute of Standards and Technology]]''' ('''NIST''') ([https://www.nist.gov/ nist.gov]) ([https://www.nist.gov/about-nist/contact-us contacting NIST]) | Open Media Forensics Challenge presented in [https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/open-media-forensics-challenge '''Open Media Forensics Challenge''' at nist.gov] and [https://mfc.nist.gov/ '''Open Media Forensics Challenge''' ('''OpenMFC''') at mfc.nist.gov]<ref group="contact">

</ref> - ''Open Media Forensics Challenge Evaluation (OpenMFC) is an open evaluation series organized by the NIST to assess and measure the capability of media forensic algorithms and systems.''<ref>https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/open-media-forensics-challenge</ref>

* '''2021''' | '''[[w:Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition]] (CVPR)''' 2021 [https://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/ '''CVPR 2021''' at cvpr2021.thecvf.com]

* '''2020''' | The winners of the [https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/12/facebook-detection-challenge-winners-spot-deepfakes-with-82-accuracy/ Deepfake Detection Challenge reach 82% accuracy in detecting synthetic human-like fakes]<ref name="VentureBeat2020">https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/12/facebook-detection-challenge-winners-spot-deepfakes-with-82-accuracy/</ref>

* '''2019''' | At the annual Finnish [[w:Ministry of Defence (Finland)|w:Ministry of Defence]]'s  '''Scientific Advisory Board for Defence''' ('''MATINE''') public research seminar, a research group presented their work [https://www.defmin.fi/files/4755/1315MATINE_seminaari_21.11.pdf ''''''Synteettisen median tunnistus''''''' at defmin.fi] (Recognizing synthetic media). They developed on earlier work on how to automatically detect synthetic human-like fakes and their work was funded with a grant from MATINE.

* '''[https://cyabra.com/ Cyabra.com]''' is an AI-based system that helps organizations be on the guard against disinformation attacks<ref group="1st seen in" name="ReutersDisinfomation2020">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist/deepfake-used-to-attack-activist-couple-shows-new-disinformation-frontier-idUSKCN24G15E</ref>. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist/deepfake-used-to-attack-activist-couple-shows-new-disinformation-frontier-idUSKCN24G15E Reuters.com reporting] from July 2020.

=== SSFWIKI proposed countermeasure to weaponized synthetic pornography: Outlaw unauthorized synthetic pornography (transcluded) ===

  Transcluded main contents from [[Adequate Porn Watcher AI (concept)]]

=== SSFWIKI proposed countermeasure to digital sound-alikes: Outlawing digital sound-alikes (transcluded) ===

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Please contact these organizations and tell them to work harder against the disinformation weapons

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