Posted on 12/02/2018 4:48:25 PM PST by jazusamo
AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. leaders say Vladimir Putin used a familiar cyber playbook to “muck around” in the midterm elections last month, but intelligence officials and key lawmakers believe a much more sinister, potentially devastating threat lies just down the road — one that represents an attack on reality itself.
Policy insiders and senators of both parties believe the Russian president or other actors hostile to the U.S. will rely on “deep fakes” to throw the 2020 presidential election cycle into chaos, taking their campaign to influence American voters and destabilize society to a new level.
The eerie process, which relies on cutting-edge, deep-learning algorithm technology, produces high-quality audio and video of individuals saying things they never said or doing things they never did. The phony video, analysts say, will be virtually indistinguishable from real footage, mimicking voices, speaking patterns, facial expressions and surroundings to a frighteningly realistic degree.
U.S. officials attending a high-level national security forum last week say the technology is the next major threat to American elections and potentially to democracy itself, and analysts say the nefarious possibilities are virtually endless.
U.S. military researchers see deep fakes as a top priority, and lawmakers say cooperation among the armed forces, technology sector and Congress will be necessary to counter them.
“We are heading to an era where deep fakes technology is going to cause real chaos,” Sen. Ben Sasse, Nebraska Republican, told a room full of military, intelligence and national security officials Friday during the annual Texas National Security Forum.
“It’s going to destroy human lives, it’s going to roil financial markets, and it might well spur military conflicts around the world,” said Mr. Sasse, echoing what military and intelligence officials say privately...
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This tech was invented in the US.
We are several generations ahead of anyone in CGI.
Where can I invest?
So true and I doubt he’d hesitate to use it if he could.
Does anyone have any idea what specifically they’re talking about? Bots making trends on social media? Hillary having a head spasm that they will say is fake, or what?
Yep. The U.S. media, most of which is no doubt covertly being subverted and manipulated by deep state. If fact, if it were revealed people like Acosta was a state operative, I would not be surprised a bit.
I worry more about Leftists in our own government using this technology more than the Russians.
True, but my assertion still stands. I’ll throw in the NYT as well.
This is in case Trump releases the information he has... deep state wants you to doubt your own eyes.
“Sounds like you’re already believing the lie.”
Which one(s)?
No evidence for blaming the Russians. Plenty of evidence for blaming Democrat cheaters, their politicized judges, and their illegal voters.
The “phony video” claim.
What's also killing the Republic is libtards having maneuvered into positions of being in charge of public education. Kids are indoctrinated early on that up is down and black is white--so that they will faithfully vote as they were trained, in the good ol' libtard way. They are incapable of independent thought, but can mimic crap music lyrics and bulleted talking libtard points like good little parrots. Also, the media is overwhelmingly libtard, reinforcing what they learned in skool.
They can do it now.
More hysteria. In reality, this is the Deep State just trying to keep everyone hysterical so they have a free hand to quickly ban anyone on social media who strongly supports POTUS in the run up to 2020.
The real threat to our society is not the Russians mucking around in our elections, it is the lying and cheating Democrats who are cheating during the elections. They and they alone are causing Americans to no longer trust our elections because of cheating, illegals voting etc.
I think you can understand how this will be used as cover for real videos exposing real crimes.
That is, as cover for the deep state when videos of their crimes are released.
Or fake videos exposing fake crimes.
Who would believe a video of Barak or Michelle Obama saying good things about the USA, Maxine Waters acting civilized or Hillary saying she slipped?
We'd see right through them.
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