Why is it that our enemies seem so far advanced in their cyber technologies?
This tech was invented in the US.
We are several generations ahead of anyone in CGI.
This article is just hand-wringing to further the "russians elected Trump meme". You can bet the US has the capabilities mentioned, and more.
Over 20 yrs ago, a friend showed me a program that with a mere 5 min recording of your voice, it could reproduce that same voice, even matching your voiceprint, and have you say virtually anything. It would sound like you, and if analyzed it would match your voiceprint.
It made me doubt those fuzzy osama bin ladin videos that would pop up from time to time talking trash about the U.S.
I find it hard to believe that our ‘alphabet agencies’ haven’t made use of it - perhaps even stealing it from the owner, and classifying it so no-one else could use it.