DAVID FARBER
2018-10-15 06:23:10 UTC
Date: October 15, 2018 14:58:41 JST
Subject: IS: The impending war over deepfakes
https://www.axios.com/the-impending-war-over-deepfakes-b3427757-2ed7-4fbc-9edb-45e461eb87ba.html [AND DONâT MISS THE TWO LINKS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE!)
Researchers are in a pitched battle against deepfakes, the artificial intelligence algorithms that create convincing fake images, audio and video, but it could take years before they invent a system that can sniff out most or all of them, experts tell Axios.
Why it matters: A fake video of a world leader making an incendiary threat could, if widely believed, set off a trade war â or a conventional one. Just as dangerous is the possibility that deepfake technology spreads to the point that people are unwilling to trust video or audio evidence.
The big picture: Publicly available software makes it easy to create sophisticated fake videos without having to understand the machine learning that powers it. Most software swaps one personâs face onto anotherâs body, or makes it look like someone is saying something they didnât.
This has ignited an arms race between fakers and sleuths.
In one corner are...
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-------------------------------------------Subject: IS: The impending war over deepfakes
https://www.axios.com/the-impending-war-over-deepfakes-b3427757-2ed7-4fbc-9edb-45e461eb87ba.html [AND DONâT MISS THE TWO LINKS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE!)
Researchers are in a pitched battle against deepfakes, the artificial intelligence algorithms that create convincing fake images, audio and video, but it could take years before they invent a system that can sniff out most or all of them, experts tell Axios.
Why it matters: A fake video of a world leader making an incendiary threat could, if widely believed, set off a trade war â or a conventional one. Just as dangerous is the possibility that deepfake technology spreads to the point that people are unwilling to trust video or audio evidence.
The big picture: Publicly available software makes it easy to create sophisticated fake videos without having to understand the machine learning that powers it. Most software swaps one personâs face onto anotherâs body, or makes it look like someone is saying something they didnât.
This has ignited an arms race between fakers and sleuths.
In one corner are...
[...]
--
living as The Truth is True
http://geoff.livejournal.com
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