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1 January 2022
→2021 digital sound-alike enabled fraud: + This case came into light when Forbes saw a document where the U.A.E. financial authorities were seeking administrative assistance from the US authorities towards the end of recovering a small portion of the defrauded money that had been sent to bank accounts in the USA
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→Digital sound-alikes: rm subheading + mv content unchanged
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→2021 digital sound-alike enabled fraud
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→Documented crimes with digital sound-alikes: + added a quote for the WaPo 2019 ref
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→2019 digital sound-alike enabled fraud
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→2019 digital sound-alike enabled fraud
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+ reuse ref
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tweak ref names
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→2019 digital sound-alike enabled fraud: + according to Forbes.com the original reporting is the WSJ + improved intro and started to write the case open + the fraud took place in March 2019 + <ref name="WSJ original reporting 2019 digital sound-alike fraud">
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+ A Voice Deepfake Was Used To Scam A CEO Out Of $243,000 at forbes.com, 2019-09-03 reporting + <ref name="Forbes 2019 reporting digital sound-alike fraud">
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new subheading === Organizations for media forensics ===
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→Organizations against synthetic human-like fakes: + The domain name aiaaic.org was registered on Tuesday 2021-02-23
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→Organizations against synthetic human-like fakes: + AIAAIC at aiaaic.org was founded by Charlie Pownall. The AIAAIC repository at aiaaic.org contains tons of reporting on different problematic uses of AI. + <ref group="contact">
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→Digital sound-alikes: mv contents + change subheading to === Documented crimes with digital sound-alikes ===
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→Digital sound-alikes: various improvements
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moved the Jan 2021 $35 mln fraud case againt with a digital sound-alike to == Digital sound-alikes ==, added subheadings for the 2019 and 2021 fraud cases and transcluded it with {{#lst:Synthetic human-like fakes|2021 digital sound-alike enabled fraud}} into the timeline
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woops, my bad, accidentally filed the 2021-01-15 $35 mln fraud/theft case as having happened in 2020
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27 December 2021
25 December 2021
→Countermeasures against synthetic human-like fakes: mv sections to avoid a transclusion problem
→Countermeasures against synthetic human-like fakes: + === Organizations that should get back to the task at hand - FacePinPoint.com === + {{#lst:Adequate Porn Watcher AI (concept)|FacePinPoint.com}}
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18 December 2021
→Countermeasures against synthetic human-like fakes: + Battling Against Demeaning and Abusive Selfie Sharing at badassarmy.org have compiled a list of revenge porn laws by US states
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→Countermeasures against synthetic human-like fakes: + Reality Defender at realitydefender.ai - Enterprise-Grade Deepfake Detection Platform for many stakeholders
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→Organizations against synthetic human-like fakes: '''Cyber Civil Rights Initiative''' at cybercivilrights.org, a US-based NGO+ links to their compiled information at https://accsstaging.com/ccri/
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+ 2018 | science | Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation at arxiv.org (.pdf), colloquially known as ProGANs were presented by Nvidia researchers at the 2018 ICLR.
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+ CVPR 2021 at cvpr2021.thecvf.com
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8 December 2021
26 November 2021
mv contact info + one ref had a wrong group + add a plea to the == Contact information of organizations ==
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→2010's synthetic human-like fakes: + 2019 | science and demonstration | At the December 2019 w:NeurIPS conference, a novel method for making animated fakes of anything with AI First Order Motion Model for Image Animation (website at aliaksandrsiarohin.github.io), (paper) (github) was presented. + <ref group="1st seen in">
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28 October 2021
→2020's synthetic human-like fakes: + '''''Deepfaked Voice Enabled $35 Million Bank Heist in 2020''''' at unite.ai <ref group="1st seen in">https://www.reddit.com/r/VocalSynthesis/
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→2020's synthetic human-like fakes: + '''''Fraudsters Cloned Company Director’s Voice In $35 Million Bank Heist, Police Find''''' at forbes.com 2021-10-14 original reporting
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→2020's synthetic human-like fakes: The 2nd publicly known fraud done with a digital sound-alike took place on Wednesday 2020-01-15... + <ref name="Forbes 2020 voice theft reporting">
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19 October 2021
21 September 2021
+ basic definition of w:Handwriting recognition from Wikipedia
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→Handwriting syntheses: + w:Intelligent word recognition, or '''IWR''', is the recognition of unconstrained handwritten words
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language
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→Handwriting syntheses: + If the handwriting-like synthesis passes human and media forensics testing, it is a '''digital handwrite-alike'''
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16 September 2021
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minor reorg
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→Handwriting syntheses: + '''''Deep imitator: Handwriting calligraphy imitation via deep attention networks'''' at sciencedirect.com
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→Handwriting syntheses: + w:Recurrent neural networks (RNN) seem are a popular choice for handwriting synthesis
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→Handwriting syntheses: + w:Handwriting recognition https://github.com/topics/handwriting-recognition GitHub topic '''handwriting-recognition'''
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adjust pic and caption
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tweak link layout
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removed File:Saint John on Patmos.jpg, added File:Screenshot at 27s of a moving digital-look-alike made to appear Obama-like by Monkeypaw Productions and Buzzfeed 2018.png
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+ read more | view timeline of synthetic human-like fakes | view Mediatheque
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14 September 2021
moved === Digital sing-alikes === to == Singing syntheses == (haven't heard anything convincing)
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→Handwriting syntheses: + "My Text in Your Handwriting" at dl.acm.org, a system from w:University College London published on 2016-05-18 in w:ACM Transactions on Graphics + [1st seen in]
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→Handwriting syntheses: + calligrapher.ai also based on Graves' 2013 paper with some additions + slight reorg
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