If one extrapolates this trend out to the distant future it paints quite a frightening picture.
Posted on 01/29/2019 8:30:00 AM PST by ransomnote
Washington (AFP) – If you see a video of a politician speaking words he never would utter, or a Hollywood star improbably appearing in a cheap adult movie, don’t adjust your television set — you may just be witnessing the future of “fake news.”
“Deepfake” videos that manipulate reality are becoming more sophisticated due to advances in artificial intelligence, creating the potential for new kinds of misinformation with devastating consequences.
As the technology advances, worries are growing about how deepfakes can be used for nefarious purposes by hackers or state actors.
“We’re not quite to the stage where we are seeing deepfakes weaponized, but that moment is coming,” Robert Chesney, a University of Texas law professor who has researched the topic, told AFP.
Chesney argues that deepfakes could add to the current turmoil over disinformation and influence operations.
“A well-timed and thoughtfully scripted deepfake or series of deepfakes could tip an election, spark violence in a city primed for civil unrest, bolster insurgent narratives about an enemy’s supposed atrocities, or exacerbate political divisions in a society,” Chesney and University of Maryland professor Danielle Citron said in a blog post for the Council on Foreign Relations.
Paul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank specializing in AI and security issues, said it was almost inevitable that deepfakes would be used in upcoming elections.
A fake video could be deployed to smear a candidate, Scharre said, or to enable people to deny actual events captured on authentic video.
With believable fake videos in circulation, he added, “people can choose to believe whatever version or narrative that they want, and that’s a real concern.”
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If one extrapolates this trend out to the distant future it paints quite a frightening picture.
New “Deepfake” technology is powerful enough to create phony videos of Hillary doing horrifying things and then travel back in time and plant them on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
I was wondering where the manipulation of truth would eventually take us. We might as well toss our history books out the window going forward.
It's already here, it's called CNN.
Reminds me of this old commercial.
Sounds like the perfect Marxist world. No reality. They’ve been practicing it for decades (global warming), just without the fake videos.
Yeah, they know that that. Kamilla slut is damaged goods and are creating the cover story.
Just make sure the lips match the words.
Oh @#$!, are about to get little Willie/Kamala sex tapes?
This was a plot device in the movie “The Running Man”.
They’re worried about the Willie Brown-Kamala sex tapes that the Russians got hold of.
Would someone please tell me again how AI is my friend? I seem to have missed it last time.
Fear not democrats have faith in Enron Mueller’s marathon will take care of it all.
“who ya gonna believe - me or your lyin’ eyes?”
The good news is that it can be determined whether the videos are real or not so any claim of "it's a fake" will automatically call for an investigation...both into the real video and whomever it is who made any fake ones.
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