"As we approach the 2020 presidential election and are largely forced to connect to the outside world via Zoom, the growing presence of deepfakes serves as a reminder to question what we see and hear on our screens," says Venable's David Fink and Sarah Diamond.
David Fink, with Venable. Deepfakes challenge our assumptions about what is real and what is not. A combination of the phrases "deep learning" and "fake," deepfakes are superrealistic digitally altered images that use machine learning algorithms to swap one person's face or voice for another's. Deepfakes can be photos, videos or audio recordings of people saying and doing things that never actually happened.
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The company was sued in July for allegedly benefiting from its relationship with Backpage.com, which pleaded guilty to human-trafficking charges in Texas in 2018.
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Bolstered by funding from Draper Associates, Mighty Capital and The LegalTech Fund, among others, NLPatent plans to add a new slate of agentic capabilities to its platform.
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