In January 2019, Woodbridge police charged Nijer Parks with a number of offenses, including aggravated assault and store robbery. But according to Parks, he had never even been to this city.

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After learning that an arrest warrant had been issued for him, the man went to the Woodbridge police station to investigate the situation. But the police did not even listen to him, but simply arrested him. After interrogation, Nijer spent ten days in prison.

The court ordered the release of the suspect, since the prosecutor did not have any evidence against him, except for the fact that there was a match in the database of persons.

The man later found out that the police used software to search for suspects. Clearview AI. This is a controversial facial recognition system using machine learning technologies.

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Nijer Parks filed a lawsuit against Woodbridge police, the prosecutor's office, the mayor and the county jail. And the use of Clearview AI was banned in 2020 after a review and analysis of the system’s operation.

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But 2020 simply could not end with a traditional appeal – after the official speech, British TV channel Channel-4 began broadcasting an “alternative address” from the Queen, which was created using a deepfake program involving an actress and pseudo-royal scenery.

“At the BBC I was not always able to speak out openly and sincerely.”

"...so I'm grateful to Channel 4 for giving me the opportunity to say what I think is right without anyone using me to spread their personal thoughts."

The Queen decided to make such frankness in her New Year's speech, published on the pages of the Channel 4 television company on social networks.

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To create such incredibly believable photo and video materials, neural networks must learn to process as much visual content as possible and analyze it in order to create the most identical copy of the object under study.

Deepfake – don't believe your eyes!

Channel 4 stress that the main purpose of this artificial speech created using deepfake is a “serious warning”, namely – discovering the potential of fake news and fake evidence to manipulate the human community.

You can watch the artificial speech of Elizabeth II for yourself:

The director of the Channel 4 television company expressed his thoughts on deepfake as follows: “This video will serve as a powerful reminder that we can no longer fully trust our eyes.”

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