Actress Rashmika Mandanna Targeted Through Deepfake Video, Again
The Deepfakes Analysis Unit (DAU) analysed a video, which apparently features Indian actress Rashmika Mandanna in a photoshoot by a waterfall. After putting the video through A.I. detection tools and escalating it to our forensic and detection partners we were able to establish that her face had been swapped with the face of another woman, posing in a bikini by a waterfall, to create a deepfake...
Dr. Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at the University of California in Berkeley, who specialises in digital forensics and A.I. detection, said that the video is a face-swap deepfake. He confirmed our observations about the video by noting that at the four-second mark when the actress’s likeness moves her hand over her face, “the identity of the face changes as the deepfake face tracking loses the face for just a brief moment...”
“Reverting back to its roots, deepfakes continue to be used to create non-consensual sexual imagery (NCSI),” Dr. Farid told the DAU. “While it used to be that you needed hundreds to thousands of images of a person to create a face-swap deepfake, now this can be done from only a single image,” he said.
He further added that, “as a result, anyone with even a single image of themselves online could become a victim of NCSI...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley and a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project.
