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Criminals are using deepfakes to impersonate CEOs
fastcompany.com ^ | 7/19/19 | MICHAEL GROTHAUS

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:

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ai; crime; deepfakes; media; technology
The Deep State began pushing "deepfakes" ever since POTUS and others have indicated their actions are going to be exposed. In the article above a deepfake of Obama is prominent featured. SO they are working hard to train the public that evidence exposing Loretta Lynch talking to Bill Clinton, or Hillary, Obama et. al. HAS TO BE TREATED AS FAKE. THat's their story and they are sticking to it.

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.

1 posted on 07/20/2019 12:04:11 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

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.


2 posted on 07/20/2019 12:17:58 PM PDT by BEJ
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To: ransomnote

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.


3 posted on 07/20/2019 12:21:45 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: ransomnote

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.


4 posted on 07/20/2019 12:23:01 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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"Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation; this tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers; this tube is the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people, and that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died. Because this company is now in the hands of CCA, the Communications Corporation of America; there's a new chairman of the board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the twentieth floor. And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?"


5 posted on 07/20/2019 12:24:23 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ransomnote

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.


6 posted on 07/20/2019 12:38:46 PM PDT by bkopto
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Bingo.

But what is released about Trump is accurate...


7 posted on 07/20/2019 1:59:39 PM PDT by null and void (The Democratic Party is back to loving workers but hating employers. A winning formula I'm sure.)
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To: bkopto

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.


8 posted on 07/20/2019 2:00:48 PM PDT by MagnoliaB ( You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you will find you get what you need.)
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To: ransomnote

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?


9 posted on 07/20/2019 2:12:10 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: UCANSEE2

lol


10 posted on 07/20/2019 2:19:58 PM PDT by BEJ
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To: ransomnote

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.


11 posted on 07/20/2019 2:50:34 PM PDT by lonerepubinma
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To: Rebelbase

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.


12 posted on 07/20/2019 2:57:56 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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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”.


13 posted on 07/20/2019 5:39:54 PM PDT by thomastheglassexpert (thomastheglassexpert)
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