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Does this Joe Rogan deepfake mean video evidence is officially dead?
www.inverse.com/ ^ | 12/2/2019 | thor benson

Posted on 12/08/2019 6:41:23 PM PST by bitt

Experts say deepfakes will be used to swing the 2020 election.

deepfake video featuring an actor made to look and sound like the comedian Joe Rogan surfaced last week, stunning for its audio and visual accuracy. And Rogan was a great choice: He’s put out hundreds of hours-long video podcasts. There is a lot of material to work with.

If you’re not yet aware of what a deepfake is in the first place, it’s a way of using artificial intelligence to create fraudulent audio or video that sounds and/or looks like a particular person. In this case, we’re seeing a fake video of Rogan saying things he never said.

Rogan’s life in the public eye makes it easy to train an A.I system to pick up on the subtleties of how he speaks. It’d be significantly harder to do something like this with the average person, but this technology is advancing pretty quickly.

“The replica of Rogan’s voice … was produced using a text-to-speech deep learning system they developed called RealTalk, which generates life-like speech using only text inputs,” is the explanation from A.I. startup Dessa, which created the video.

The company had previously created an A.I. system that could mimic Rogan’s voice, and now they’ve created a deepfake video that’s relatively convincing.

After Dessa released its audio deepfake of Joe Rogan in May, the team started working on making a realistic deepfake video to go alongside the audio, and what they’ve created isn’t bad.

(Excerpt) Read more at inverse.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: deepfake; joerogan; realtalk
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1 posted on 12/08/2019 6:41:23 PM PST by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

they’re perfecting it before the ‘film at eleven’ comes out....


2 posted on 12/08/2019 6:42:02 PM PST by bitt (When the law enforcers turn out to be the law breakers, then we have totally upended the rule of law)
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Creepy...

I do enjoy Joe’s podcasts.


3 posted on 12/08/2019 6:46:07 PM PST by EEGator
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To: bitt

Gives new meaning to the term-”lying eyes”.


4 posted on 12/08/2019 6:47:26 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes
"Experts say deepfakes will be used to swing the 2020 election."

Covering for Hillary et al already. Wont do them any good.

5 posted on 12/08/2019 7:02:48 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: gnarledmaw

Yep, I agree. I would think that there are ways for forensic people to determine authenticity. I have a feeling the next 12 months are going to be very interesting. LOL


6 posted on 12/08/2019 7:04:40 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: bitt

Wow...

I have been watching and listening to Joe for a damn long time, since Fear Factor really, and can’t tell it’s not him :O


7 posted on 12/08/2019 7:05:20 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: greeneyes

It gives Fake News expanded possibilities.


8 posted on 12/08/2019 7:05:52 PM PST by pke
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Imagine a video of President Trump saying,

"So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said—I said, call him.

I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."

Oh, the media would eat that up. That's impeachable!

9 posted on 12/08/2019 7:10:56 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: bitt

Wow, just wow. If I didn’t know any better, I would say that it was Joe Rogan. Chilling to say the least. I am sure deep fake videos will pop up during the election cycle and it won’t be good. Scary.

How I long for a return of the old days...


10 posted on 12/08/2019 7:14:35 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: bitt

they said the same thing about photoshop 30 years ago


11 posted on 12/08/2019 7:14:41 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: pke

Wonder how much fake Video LSM has already been working on? To go with their manufactured narratives.


12 posted on 12/08/2019 7:17:54 PM PST by greeneyes
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Does this Joe Rogan deepfake mean video evidence is officially dead?

fake news for snowflakes


13 posted on 12/08/2019 7:21:54 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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I know that Adam Shciff and a bunch of democrats are hoping that stories like this will save them. Some videos will be too complex to have been faked. Also the date that the video was made and stored as evidence will be importaint.


14 posted on 12/08/2019 7:27:47 PM PST by Revel
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15 posted on 12/08/2019 7:28:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I'm sure the Biden video will now be announced as "debunked", then removed from YT. The "deepfake" defense used in place of the "hacking" defense by Demwits in and out of media, in 5, 4, 3...
joe rogan deepfake
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16 posted on 12/08/2019 7:28:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: bitt

there’s no way in hell a “deepfake” video would withstand forensic inspection... digital evidence of editing would be all over the place


17 posted on 12/08/2019 7:34:11 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: bitt

Just like copy machines and counterfeiting, there will be means for authentication. But it will make for some fun stuff. As usual, porn will be first to exploit the new technology.


18 posted on 12/08/2019 8:19:18 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: EEGator
I do enjoy Joe’s podcasts.

Joe is excellent, except for his incessant vulgarity. I can hardly sit through one of his shows because of that.

There's a time and place for that sort of talk, and YouTube ain't one of them.

19 posted on 12/08/2019 8:37:51 PM PST by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bitt

it’s a great tactic by the Dems and other assorted fascists and kommies, because when REAL videos of their peccadilloes and misdeeds surface, they can claim that they’re “deep fakes”; they’ve already made this claim a couple of times, including when Jim Acosta accosted that press conference aide trying to take her microphone back from him ...


20 posted on 12/08/2019 8:39:59 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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