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Fakes depicting actress Emma Watson are among the most popular on deepfake communities, alongside those involving Natalie Portman.
But, when it comes to discussing the rules surrounding deepfaked audio – rules are even flimsier – and now, we’re seeing the damage voice-cloning can do play out just as quickly. Sadly, it’s something Emma Watson has once again been targeted with, on a terrifying scale. Recently, an uncanny AI-generated voice clip of ‘her’ reading out Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf (in which the murderous dictator outlines his political manifesto) was posted onto 4chan, a chat forum site known to have dark undercurrents and a , showing just how powerful (and accessible) this tech is becoming. On a bigger scale, in 2020, well-versed criminals even used deepfake audio to in Hong Kong into authorising a $35 million transfer.
In a Facebook ad, a woman with a face identical to actor Emma Watson’s face smiles coyly and bends down in front of the camera, appearing to initiate a sexual act. But the woman isn’t Watson, the “Harry Potter” star. The ad was part of a massive campaign this week for a deepfake app, which allows users to swap any face into any video of their choosing.
Hundreds of sexual deepfake ads using Emma Watson’s face ran on Facebook and Instagram in the last two days
This week AI startup ElevenLabs admitted that its voice cloning tool could be misused for “malicious purposes” after users posted a deepfake audio purporting to be actor Emma Watson reading Adolf Hitler’s biography “Mein Kampf.”
