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The US Military is Funding an Effort To Catch Deepfakes and Other AI Trickery (technologyreview.com)
The Department of Defense is funding a project that will try to determine whether the increasingly real-looking fake video and audio generated by artificial intelligence might soon be impossible to distinguish from the real thing -- even for another AI system. From a report: This summer, under a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the world's leading digital forensics experts will gather for an AI fakery contest. They will compete to generate the most convincing AI-generated fake video, imagery, and audio -- and they will also try to develop tools that can catch these counterfeits automatically. The contest will include so-called "deepfakes," videos in which one person's face is stitched onto another person's body.
Rather predictably, the technology has already been used to generate a number of counterfeit celebrity porn videos. But the method could also be used to create a clip of a politician saying or doing something outrageous. DARPA's technologists are especially concerned about a relatively new AI technique that could make AI fakery almost impossible to spot automatically. Using what are known as generative adversarial networks, or GANs, it is possible to generate stunningly realistic artificial imagery.
Rather predictably, the technology has already been used to generate a number of counterfeit celebrity porn videos. But the method could also be used to create a clip of a politician saying or doing something outrageous. DARPA's technologists are especially concerned about a relatively new AI technique that could make AI fakery almost impossible to spot automatically. Using what are known as generative adversarial networks, or GANs, it is possible to generate stunningly realistic artificial imagery.
Considering the Fake News are already using edited videos of Trump as the sources for their fake news, the problem is much deeper than the deepfake videos.
This is a big problem. And our society isn't prepared for it.
Congress needs to move fast to make it a felony to create photo-realistic likenesses of people (user or AI generated) without their permission. If you want to parody someone, all you have to do is cartoon-ize their face a little bit so that it's clear that it's a parody and not real.
Creating or sharing photo-realistic AI generated porn should be sexual assault.
But the method could also be used to create a clip of a politician saying or doing something outrageous
They do it constantly in certain parts of the world that faking them to discredit them is really not necessary. We could also try to grow up if the Internet wouldn't forbid that.
No need to fake it. Our citizenry expect it, because the United States is turning into a full blown Idiocracy, and both the left and right are bring drawn into it, compelled by moronic (but good sounding to one group of people) views.
P.s. the whole point of the GAN paradigm is that it can produce more convincing fakes by first improving the algorithm that detects fakes and then splicing the improved version into the system.
I can always tell by the pixels, and I've seen quite a few video-shops in my time.
The thought occurs that an inevitable explosion of fake video and audio recordings will drive the development of encrypted authentication networks that verify that a supposed recording came from a sealed, supposedly tamper-proof recording device from a manufacturer whose production lines, parts suppliers, and design teams are closely monitored by government agencies and nonprofit organizations against the possibility of firmware tampering. Recordings produced by unvetted devices will be automatically assumed by courts and other interested parties to be inherently unreliable and very likely fake in all cases of controversy.
The enormous growth of computing power guarantees that this kind of seamless video and audio fakery will become mainstream faster than you might think. Heck, I'm looking forward to 2020 or 2021 at the latest as the year I can browse to a free spoofing website to make up a video of Hillary Rodham Clinton staggering in a drunken haze into the welcoming arms of Vladimir Putin on the steps of the Kremlin. Next, I'll play around with videos of Donald Trump soaring like a bird around the dome of the United States Capitol, whooping loudly and dropping dookies on passersby below. Then I'll gussy up an ultra-realistic video showing a mean neighbor porking a horrified dog and send that along to the ASPCA and to the local cops. They might not believe an unverified video in the age of universal fakes, but hey. Fun days!
A truly excellent pizza parlor is a delight unto the heavens. Treasure the sauce and the toppings!
Supports deep fakes.
She said so this morning at a Disney press conference.
Picture this: A few days before the election, a new video has "Candidate A" speaking at a satanist convention, disparaging the flag, mom, and apple pie. Totally fake, but how can Candidate A fight back?
Simply put out a new ad, with fake footage of Candidate B saying _exactly_ the same speech... then JFK, then Nixon, then ($pop_idol_of_the_week). Tagline is "I'm Candidate A, and I can make stuff up too."
A sad state of affairs, but if I ran a political party, I'd crank up a rendering farm for this type of emergency.
Lose = not win
Deepfake News!
Perhaps a better definition of the singularity.
Precisely the kind of thing that a movie named "Looker" predicted in 1981 (directed by Michael Chrichton). Had Albert Finney and Susan Dey in it.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
freedom of speech
make no law
English. Do you read it?
Rather predictably, the technology has already been used to generate a number of counterfeit celebrity porn videos. But the method could also be used to create a clip of a politician saying or doing something outrageous.
The whole deep fake media churn is precisely because there is a video out there of a politician saying or doing something so incredibly bad they would be lynched. I am betting one of the Wikileaks insurance files has it. When it is released, the media can claim it's fake.
Unless the DOD programmers are better than all other programmers, they will lose the battle. As the parent post says, you just need to do an automated optimization based on what that other program detects.
He signed a tax cut bill. Hillary's head would have exploded killing her if she attempted to do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Understand...Virtual Child Pornography involved the Supreme Court because digitally created images were used to agitate and turn Muslim suspects held at sites around the world in Psy-Operations. We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.~ John Ashcroft, former US Attorney General
Would were! Should is! Could be! And live a hundred times three.
The Mossad managed to secretly wire the whole World Trade Center with demolition explosives. If they can do that then anything is possible.
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defines it. This is the proof.
More useless taxation without representation.
It's very simple really, Taxation is theft.
Go read up on the Spanish-American War, the Opening of Japan, Native American/German-American/Japanese-American Internment, etc. The frothing masses have always been fed whatever narrative makes them back the currently desired course of action since the founding of this 'fair country'. If you go back further you can find the same action going on all over the world, only overshadowed by rebellions when the narrative was disrupted by facts on the ground, usually resource shortages or labor abuses so prevalent that word of them got around the propaganda and everyone knew someone who could verify it with boots/letters from the ground.
The news/internet of today is no different. The only way to divest yourself of the propaganda is to have a network of trusted individuals, some of whom are in the affected regions who can report on what is actually going on there, just like has always been true. If you or someone you know has not met them in person and spent time with them, they are just as unreliable as the news or a reporter.
humans are stupid and deserve to die.
Rather predictably, the technology has already been used to generate a number of counterfeit celebrity porn videos.
Meh, NONE of these fake videos have my favorite celebrities so what do I care.
I wonder if soon all photographic, video, and audio recording devices will be required to incorporate hardened individual hardware certificates that can sign all the recordings that particular device creates. At least in that case it seems it would be possible to verify that a particular portion of unedited source material was recorded directly by a specific device without any additional manipulation, which could be useful in legal, political, or scientific contexts where verification of origin is required.
The society went from no video, to video surveillance everywhere. Are we now coming full circle where videos will carry no credibility at all, therefore equivalent of not having any video surveillance anyways? Revenge porn, no problem if nobody can prove it's real or not.
Someone should do a video of FOX actually telling the truth.
Is there any particular reason that in addition to analysis, watermarking and metadata couldn't be implemented for this purpose? I'm having a hard time following the logic of this being a catastrophe. A person has to initiate this, there aren't rogue machines running around making videos of their own volition. Sounds like once again, people are reacting to an epic mischaracterization.
just say that it is "deep-fake" and "AI-trickery" and make the truth go away. That's what I read.
The Department of Defense is funding a project that will try to determine whether the increasingly real....
What is the name of the project? Why can't the author write down the name of the damn project? the one piece of information that would allow someone to find out more about it, what the goals and schedule are, etc. is completely missing from the article.
the summary mentions a contest. What is the contest, when is it, where is it? the article completely fails to mention that information either. For anyone wanting to be informed about this, the article is useless.