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Last Week in AI #133: Deepfake cyberattacks, Project Maven updates, AI's geographic concentration in the U.S.

Reports of deepfakes used in phishing and biometric attacks, Pentagon's Project Maven finds new partners after Google, and concentrated AI development risks winner-takes-most dynamics

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Sep 13, 2021
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Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here. 

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Concerns about the potential for deepfakes and synthetic media to cause harm still abound, and they are now being used in cyberattacks. In a dark parody of open-source tutorials on novel technologies, threat actors are using the dark web to share best practices and methods for using …

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