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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
|---|---|
| Identifiant | 1244357 |
| Date de publication | 2019-08-05 13:00:00 (vue: 2019-08-05 16:02:23) |
| Titre | Deepfakes are a problem, what\'s the solution? |
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Deepfakes are the latest moral panic, but the issues about consent, fake news, and political manipulation they raise are not new. They are also not issues that can be solved at a tech level.
A deepfake is essentially a video of something that didn’t happen, but made to look extremely realistic. That might sound like a basic case of ‘photoshopping’, but deepfakes go way beyond this. By training AI algorithms on vast libraries of photographs taken of famous people, the videos produced in this way are eerily real, and worryingly convincing.
As a result, plenty of analysts are worried that deepfakes might be used for political manipulation, or even to start World War 3.
Solving these problems is going to be hard, in part because they are an extension of problems that are already evident in the rise of fake news, faked videos, and misinformation campaigns.
What are deepfakes?
If you’ve never seen a deepfake, do a quick Google search for one, and watch the video. If this is your first time, you’re going to be pretty impressed, and possibly quite disturbed.
These videos are made by AIs. Deepfake authors collect a database – as large as possible – of photographs taken of a person, and then an AI is used to paste these on to a video using a technique known as generative adversarial networks. Because AIs are developing at a rapid rate, so is the sophistication of deepfakes.
It will come as no surprise to learn that deepfakes were developed first for porn, to produce videos with Hollywood stars’ faces over other (women’s) bodies. But since then, the technology has increasingly been used to produce political videos, and by Hollywood itself.
The threat of the technology is certainly real, but let’s get one thing out of the way first: if you are reading this and are worried that you might be the subject of a deepfake, you don’t need to worry (at least yet). The technology relied on millions of photographs of a person being publically available, and unless you are a celebrity that’s probably not the case. Regardless of your celebrity status, however, the best VPN services are a cost effective ($5-10 monthly) defensive measure to consider for all your internet-connected devices |
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