We have our best people on it.
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...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Wouldn't it be a hoot if the Russians were paid/bribed by the Clinton/Obama camps to concoct this mysterious,"Eerie technology/software" as they announce the Russians allegedly have developed because the swamp was tipped off someone connected to Trumps administration was going to release real audio/video of some of these big players conspiring/committing crimes. The big players can then claim all the evidence against them is fake and blame it yet again on the Russians colluding with Trump!☺
Ya just don't know who to trust~
The Russians will give Democrats [and Democrats will themselves make] fake videos of their opponents carrying tiki torches and burning crosses in people’s front yards, seemingly shouting “Put ‘em in chains!”
So instead of having to repeat the lies over and over to get people o ccept them, the Democrats will call up their buddies in Silicon Valley and order custom video smears.
Democrat vote fraud. That is what’s killing the Republic.
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Yes! Everything else we can figure out how to handle. But we can’t survive corruption from within our system by Americans.
We have our best people on it.
USA news (93%) of it is the biggest threat to USA elections. Additionally the completely un-validated voting system. Finally the 40$ of USAians who are completely consumed by delusionary illusion. And growing...
Yeh sure.
The audio portion of this technology has existed for awhile. I remember going to websites offering this tech off the shelf just a few years ago. Throw in audio too and it is a very dangerous combination.
Bookmark to read later.
The media IS the deep state.
This article is just hand-wringing to further the "russians elected Trump meme". You can bet the US has the capabilities mentioned, and more.
LOL true
Honestly, public discourse in the West is so saturated with lies - well over 90% of what appears in the papers or on TV is false or misleading - that “deep fakes” aren’t going to make a difference.
Almost all our news is already “deep fake” news.
Operation Mockingbird is still a thing.
You make a fair point, it’s hard to know if what is being reported is true.
“All they needed was some HD video to back up Ford’s claims...and everyone would have believed her. :)”
I still can’t believe how many DID believe her anyway! It is amazing how many American men actually seem to believe that somehow women are far less likely to lie than men, it is an absurd idea. Men are just more likely to believe a woman’s lie than women are to believe a man’s lie.
Oh no. The world is going to go back to the way it was a few decades ago without reliable omnipresent surveillance. What will we do!?!?!?
That’s not even new technology. Its been around for a few decades. Only the quality is getting better.
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.
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