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How to spot deepfakes
There are a variety of techniques that can be used to help you spot deepfakes, from quick tips to help you examine it yourself to software and extensions which can do it for you. Starting with some common giveaways of a deepfake, this article will act as a guide through three different techniques for spotting fabricated imagery from real content.
Film festival celebrates Palestinian culture
A lens into Palestinian culture is being offered at a film festival in Hoxton this week.
Screening three films different in scope, tone and message, the London Palestine Film Festival aims to display a wealth of Palestinian culture, knowledge and passion.
Irit Neidhardt, founder of MEC films, said that these films were “incredibly important for international audiences to see”. She hopes they could “slow down thinking and calm the discussion” amidst the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza.
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Screening three films different in scope, tone and message, the London Palestine Film Festival aims to display a wealth of Palestinian culture, knowledge and passion.
Irit Neidhardt, founder of MEC films, said that these films were “incredibly important for international audiences to see”. She hopes they could “slow down thinking and calm the discussion” amidst the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza.
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The urgent need to regulate drone strikes
In this piece, law student Samuel Cardwell draws on the knowledge he gained from participating in Goldsmiths Law’s Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights Law and Policy Clinic to examine the human rights implications of using drone strikes as part of the War on Terror.
Surveying a wide array of sources, Cardwell uses hard-facts and legal analysis to highlight the damage that drone strikes have on not just the victims but the perpetrators too.
Surveying a wide array of sources, Cardwell uses hard-facts and legal analysis to highlight the damage that drone strikes have on not just the victims but the perpetrators too.
How data is helping to understand the terrible harms of artificial intelligence
Pet Abduction Bill backed by government in response to pet theft rates across UK
Deepfakes are here to stay, so what should we do about it?
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