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Hany Farid States That Image Of Trump Dancing With A 13-Year-Old Girl Has Hallmarks Of Being Created With AI
Professor Hany Farid, of the University of California, Berkeley, who specialises in digital forensics, misinformation and ...
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Berkeley Researchers Discover That People Are Poorly Equipped To Detect AI-Powered Voice Clones, Develop New Deepfake Dataset
Could you recognize an AI-generated voice from a real one? How about if two voices are the same? Turns out, the odds aren’t ...
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Hany Farid Reflects on New Research Showing That Deepfake Makers Can Now Recreate Realistic Heartbeats
“We now know that just because a person in a video has a measurable pulse, it doesn’t mean that we can assume they are real,” ...
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“It Actually Doesn’t Feel Very Mutual:” How Technology Impacts the Values of Mutual Aid Groups in Practice
Tonya Nguyen, Darya Kaviani, and Niloufar Salehi. 2025. “It Actually Doesn’t Feel Very Mutual:” How Technology Impacts the Values of Mutual Aid Groups in Practice. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI ...
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Sustaining Human Agency, Attending to Its Cost: An Investigation into Generative AI Design for Non-Native Speakers’ Language Use
Yimin Xiao, Cartor Hancock, Sweta Agrawal, Nikita Mehandru, Niloufar Salehi, Marine Carpuat, and Ge Gao. 2025. Sustaining Human Agency, Attending to Its Cost: An Investigation into Generative AI ...
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When AI Tells Their Story: Researchers’ Reactions to AI-Generated Podcasts as a Tool for Communicating Research
Quan Connie Gu, Daniel Hickey, and Kimiko Ryokai. 2025. When AI Tells Their Story: Researchers’ Reactions to AI-Generated Podcasts as a Tool for Communicating Research. In Proceedings of the Extended ...
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People are poorly equipped to detect AI-powered voice clones
Specifically, participants perceived the identity of an AI-generated voice to be the same as its real counterpart approximately of the time, and correctly identified a voice as AI generated only about ...
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‘The world has changed...’ — Unlocking Teen Perspectives on Technological Futures through Design Fiction Workshops
Liza Gak, Isabel Li, Daniela Rosner, and Niloufar Salehi. 2025. ‘The world has changed...’ — Unlocking Teen Perspectives on Technological Futures through Design Fiction Workshops. In Proceedings of ...
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Cloak: The Smartest Thing You'll Never Send
The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Beyond the Benchmark: Generalization Limits of Deepfake Detectors in the Wild
The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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StorAI: Designing Ethical Applications with LLMs for Mental Health
The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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BrainType: A Co-Located Game Designed for Social Presence
The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...