The impending war over deepfakes

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: October 15, 2018 14:58:41 JST
> To: the Interesting Stuff list <is () iconia com>
> Subject: IS: The impending war over deepfakes
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> https://www.axios.com/the-impending-war-over-deepfakes-b3427757-2ed7-4fbc-9edb-45e461eb87ba.html [AND DON’T MISS THE 
> TWO LINKS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE!)
> EXCERPT:
> 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 — 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 person’s face onto another’s body, or makes 
> it look like someone is saying something they didn’t.
>
> This has ignited an arms race between fakers and sleuths.
>
> In one corner are...
> [...]
>
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> Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com
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