Social Media Deepfakes On Rise; How Idahoans Can Prevent It

It's not just celebrities that get targeted for online artificial intelligence hacks, defamation, private information access and usage, and other forms of similar Internet manipulation by cybercriminals. More and more of us "average" human beings are paying the price for not taking steps to make our social media sites more secure, and it is costing innocent Americans their jobs in some cases.

It's estimated that over 4,000 celebrities have fallen victim to AI deepfakes, according to theguardian.com. Kids in school have also had their social media accounts hacked in this manner.

For those who aren't aware of what deepfakes are, in most cases, it's the practice of digitally manipulating and spreading a person's social media images in a way that causes humiliation or results in defaming an individual. Pornographic deepfakes aren't the only type of these cybercrimes, according to techtarget.com. There have been cases of people's personal bank accounts and other forms of information getting exposed on the web from deepfakes.

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It's estimated that over 4,000 celebrities have fallen victim to AI deepfakes, according to theguardian.com. Kids in school have also had their social media accounts hacked in this manner.

The New York Times recently published a story about a promising student who had political aspirations and reportedly lost a job due to a deepfake photo manipulation that appeared to show the woman naked. The image was uploaded to the Internet without her knowledge.

Techtarget.com has listed ways people can protect themselves from falling victim to deepfakes and similar attacks against people's personal information and images. What many people believe is protected online content is actually very easy to access and alter by those who pray on their keyboards.