Posted on 12/03/2018 4:36:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. leaders say Vladimir Putin used a familiar cyber playbook to “muck around” in the midterm elections last month, but intelligence officials and key lawmakers believe a much more sinister, potentially devastating threat lies just down the road — one that represents an attack on reality itself.
Policy insiders and senators of both parties believe the Russian president or other actors hostile to the U.S. will rely on “deep fakes” to throw the 2020 presidential election cycle into chaos, taking their campaign to influence American voters and destabilize society to a new level.
The eerie process, which relies on cutting-edge, deep-learning algorithm technology, produces high-quality audio and video of individuals saying things they never said or doing things they never did. The phony video, analysts say, will be virtually indistinguishable from real footage, mimicking voices, speaking patterns, facial expressions and surroundings to a frighteningly realistic degree.
U.S. officials attending a high-level national security forum last week say the technology is the next major threat to American elections and potentially to democracy itself, and analysts say the nefarious possibilities are virtually endless.
U.S. military researchers see deep fakes as a top priority, and lawmakers say cooperation among the armed forces, technology sector and Congress will be necessary to counter them.
“We are heading to an era where deep fakes technology is going to cause real chaos,” Sen. Ben Sasse, Nebraska Republican, told a room full of military, intelligence and national security officials Friday during the annual Texas National Security Forum.
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Is the long-rumored Hillary Clinton child sex torture video about to come out or something?
So if you see videos of a fat blond haired guy on Staten Island robbing delis and bodegas don’t believe it!!
Act of war?
That would be my guess. But don’t worry — “It’s just one of those fakes that Putin makes”.
LMAO!
More BS.
I’m more concerned about fraudulently documented foreigners voting in our elections, few of whom are Russian.
Sen. Ben Sasse, Nebraska Republican
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Talk about deep fakes........../s
Heh, blaming actual videos of their foul deeds on Russian fakes does sound like what they’d do.
The Russkis got it made. They can cause all kinds of chaos and shenanigans with no consequences. They know that no matter what they do, the DOJ KY Cowboys will be going after Trump and the low I.Q. doofuses that work for him.
IMHO this post warrants either a sarcasm tag or a barf alert
The simple solution is to just tell the public that the technology exists to produce high-quality fake audio and video. And that people should not always believe what they see and hear.
Simple, right? No Big Government solution required, right?
Yet Ben Sasse seems very concerned. Watch out for your freedoms folks.
My money is on Mulehead doing this.
Sounds like they are worried about some videos about to come out.
Show us the evidence and identify the leaders and insiders who claim to have it.
Obama humming a tune with Larry Sinclair.
Heh, blaming actual videos of their foul deeds on Russian fakes does sound like what they’d do.
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Exactly, my first thought.
It is effing embarrassing to hear this. It’s like they never knew that Moscow has had groups doing stuff in our media and other institutions for most of the last century. it’s just embarrassing.
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