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US Lawmakers Say AI Deepfakes 'Have the Potential To Disrupt Every Facet of Our Society' (theverge.com)
Yesterday, several lawmakers sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, asking him to assess the threat posed to national security by deepfakes -- a new type of AI-assisted video editing that creates realistic results with minimal effort. The Verge reports: The letter says "hyper-realistic digital forgeries" showing "convincing depictions of individuals doing or saying things they never did" could be used for blackmail and misinformation. "As deep fake technology becomes more advanced and more accessible, it could pose a threat to United States public discourse and national security," say the letter's signatories, House representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), and Carlos Curbelo (R-FL). The trio want the intelligence community to produce a report that includes descriptions of when "confirmed or suspected" deepfakes have been produced by foreign individuals (there are no current examples of this), and to suggest potential countermeasures. In a press statement, Curbelo said: "Deep fakes have the potential to disrupt every facet of our society and trigger dangerous international and domestic consequences [...] As with any threat, our Intelligence Community must be prepared to combat deep fakes, be vigilant against them, and stand ready to protect our nation and the American people."
This Congress? Nothing except verbally distance themselves from him (if they even do that) while lining their pockets with his policies. The next Congress though -- that's a whole different matter.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
We're headed back to that horrible time a few decades ago without pervasive reliable audio and visual surveillance. Quick! Let's pass more laws curtailing freedom of expression and individual liberty!
are simply afraid of the competition.
The US ( and everyone else ) has been altering both modern and historical facts to suit their own agendas since the very beginning. :|
I'm curious why the sudden concern
Pot. . . meet kettle.
In my "Intro to Psychology" class we learned about experiments that were performed that involved staging an event in front of a room full of people, including people who were trained as observers. Then, quizzing them on the details.
Everyone performed badly, including the trained observers. Especially prominent were racial biases, skewing their memory of who did what.
The notion of "fair witness" is too high a bar for humans to hit. We cannot avoid jumping to conclusions, infusing our biases, etc. And our memories are not nearly as accurate as they feel.
In fact, the entire legal system uses nothing but scientifically invalid "proof"... Our legal system doesn't even remotely adhere to that.
The threshold for legal conviction in the US (and a few other countries) is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and not "absolute proof" for good reason. If you demand 100% proof, you would almost never convict anyone, and that wouldn't serve justice either. The legal system has to carefully balance the ability to obtain a conviction when warranted versus protection against false accusations. Real life tends to be a bit messier than a peer-reviewed scientific paper, and rarely deals in absolutes.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
its usually because something has come out that they haven't figured out how to manipulate or abuse. when this technology has fallen out of the news, you will know that at least some political bodies are abusing it for their benefit.
People will currently believe absolutely anything provided you get the narrative right and appeal to their emotions. There's no need to even doctor videos anymore. You just have to tell them.
Trusted third parties are expensive and usually unworkable. Cameras signing things will not provide any security at all, as they are easily hacked.
So there will need to be some kind of hacking detection built into cameras. A write-only store which keeps track of changes to the internal flash, for example. In order to prove the validity of a video you'll have to produce both the video and the camera. This should be useful at least in keeping the police from tampering with body cam footage.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"