The popular messaging and social media app WeChat has taken action against Zao, the viral Chinese iOS app that creates highly realistic face-swap videos. According to reports, WeChat users can still ...

A new Chinese face-swapping app has been kicked off China's most popular messaging app WeChat over security concerns. The iPhone app ZAO allows users to insert themselves into their favorite movies, ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Chinese iPhone users are flocking to a new app called Zao to make their own deepfakes.

AI and machine learning have crept into almost every part of modern technology and products but one of its most whimsical applications is face-swapping. Dubbed "deepfakes", these programs can almost ...

A new Chinese app that lets people swap faces with celebrities is updating its policies after a backlash from users concerned about their privacy and how its convincing fake image technology could be ...

Chinese face-swap app Zao rocketed to the top of app store charts over the weekend, but user delight at the prospect of becoming instant superstars quickly turned sour as privacy implications began to ...

In brief: Hot on the heels of the FaceApp controversy comes another app that generates deepfakes and has managed to climb to the top of the free apps list in the Chinese iOS App Store. The company ...

The logo of the Chinese app ZAO, which allows users to swap their faces with celebrities and anyone else, is seen on a mobile phone screen in front of an advertisement of the app, in this illustration ...

The app lets users seamlessly swap their face with a celebrity's. A new Chinese app that lets users seamlessly swap faces with celebrities gained widespread popularity over the weekend, but quickly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. It was inevitable—and now it has happened. China's viral sensation ...