Posted on 07/20/2019 12:04:11 PM PDT by ransomnote
“Deepfakes” refers to media that has been altered by artificial intelligence to make it appear that a person is doing or saying something that, in fact, that person has never done or said. The technology first began appearing a few years ago, with crude deepfake tools allowing users to make it look like celebrities were recorded engaging in sexual activities they actually didn’t take part in.
But deepfakes are now moving past the porn realm and into the criminal world where bad actors are using the tech to impersonate CEOs, Axios reports. However, for now, it appears criminals are using deepfake audio instead of video to pull off scams:
Symantec, a major cybersecurity company, says it has seen three successful audio attacks on private companies. In each, a company’s “CEO” called a senior financial officer to request an urgent money transfer.
Scammers were mimicking the CEOs’ voices with an AI program that had been trained on hours of their speech—culled from earnings calls, YouTube videos, TED talks, and the like.
Millions of dollars were stolen from each company, whose names were not revealed. The attacks were first reported in the BBC.
The threat deepfake audio poses to businesses cannot be understated. While someone using deepfake audio to pretend they’re the CEO of a company and getting that company’s accounting department to wire them $1 million because of an “emergency” is one thing, the tech could also be used for sabotage. What if one rival–or even a nation-state–wanted to sink Apple’s stock price? A well-timed deepfake audio clip that purports to show Tim Cook having a private conversation with someone about iPhone sales tanking could do just that–wiping billions off the stock market in seconds.
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On other websites some point out that deepfakes may be persuasive if the public or listens to them, but the technology to create them is easily exposed by forensic analysis. But of course, the Deep State on both sides of the aisle will scream that an objective analysis is of course partisan and insist their partisan analyst examine it (and find it flawless).
Whatever is coming, they are terrified.
it’ll get to the point where nothing in media is trusted as real. But this is not new because as it is media provides a lot of entertainment and deep fake will be seen as just that. It’s all there for our entertainment.
This is not good. There are millions of individuals who see nothing wrong with propagating lies. They have no principles, and will use this technology for the wrong purpose, not the right.
Never fails. The moment a new technology comes out, it’s used for the WRONG reason, not the right one. Email: inboxes full of spam when email became common. Telephone caller id: deliberately wrong numbers displayed as soon as it became possible to choose the number that is displayed.
There’s no reason to think this will be used for good purposes.
The rules will just change is all, like they did when photocopiers, video tape, and other innovations happened.
People will simply not give credibility to images or videos without provenance, much like we do when we watch a movie and find it entertaining even though it’s all CGI.
And maybe (way out on a limb here) it will force people to develop better critical thinking skills. Who hasn’t received a forwarded story or video or whatever from a friend who was suckered into thinking it was real and sending it on. Before they became political, Snopes was one place people would go to check things out, now there’s really no place you can trust other than your own common sense and internet searches. So maybe when deepfakes are as common as photoshops, people will do their homework before deciding what to believe rather than accepting even a convincing video on face value.
The leftist, satanic corporate media is obviously trying to get ahead of the curve, before all the elite-pedo pictures are released, engineering the deep fake narrative.
Bingo.
But what is released about Trump is accurate...
BINGO. I’m sure any ‘deep fake’ some bad people should try to use against a poor unsuspecting CEO or famous person can easily be verified one way or another by a criminal forensic lab.
Seems like there would be an easy way to institute a verification check to approve large money transfers.
Like the CFO calling the CEO to verify?
lol
I have been telling my friends for over a year now to get ready for a video of Trump using the “N” word. There must be some sleazy libs working in their parents basement creating a Deep fake video.
Seems like there would be an easy way to institute a verification check to approve large money transfers.
Like the CFO calling the CEO to verify?
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I believe there’s already such verification checks in place for big money transfers. It’s good business and neither person wants to be falsely blamed later for having prompted such a transfer (”Bob said to...” “Oh I think Roger is mistaken, I never said so...”). I think the article is being used a vehicle to alarm the public into distrusting audio and video.
I and millions more are at that point right now. Even today on Fox I “trust” about 0% of what I am told for virtually all of the time what I am told today changes in 24-48 hours. Sometimes changes dramatically or even then told “well that didn’t really happen what we screamed in your face 2 days ago sorry about that”.
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