{"id":365159,"date":"2026-06-18T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365159\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:59:09","slug":"the-wire-berkeley-deepfake-expert-is-flummoxed-and-scared-by-what-he-sees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365159\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wire: Berkeley deepfake expert is flummoxed and scared by what he sees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at UC Berkeley, in his office on campus in July 2019. File photo: AP \/Ben Margot<\/p>\n

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UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid may be the world\u2019s leading deepfake expert. He says AI-generated content is now so convincing that he no longer trusts his own eyes. \u201cWe\u2019re pretty screwed,\u201d he says. (New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Harshita Nair, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley student, is dead after being swept to sea in Santa Cruz County. (East Bay Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A person was found dead on the UC Berkeley campus near Oxford Street on Friday morning. (Berkeley Scanner<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A political scientist and UC Berkeley alum has been arrested in China and accused of spying. (SF Chronicle<\/a>, NPR<\/a>)<\/p>\n

NASA Ames and UC Berkeley\u2018s plans for a $2 billion space center at Moffett Field near Mountain View have raised concerns after an environmental report showed the project would include millions of square feet of research and office space, but little housing. (Mountain View Voice<\/a>)<\/p>\n

When a new collection arrived at UC Berkeley\u2019s California Language Archive, graduate student Tyler Lee-Wynant found hours of recordings of his aunt speaking Northern Pomo \u2014 tapes he and his family had never heard before. Now he\u2019s reclaiming his Pomo culture, one recording at a time. (Berkeley News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A member of BAMPFA\u2019s curatorial team unpacks the artwork \u201cPresent Tense (Roll Call),\u201d Stephanie Syjuco\u2019s 63-foot installation \u2014 made up of neatly-cut snippets of blown-up textbooks, indexes and course material \u2014 that\u2019s been on view in the museum\u2019s lobby for nearly a year. (Panorama<\/a>) <\/p>\n

UC Berkeley has again been named the top public university in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report. (Berkeley News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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