TERRIFYING: The Next Wave Of Fake News Is Here

[UCmeNdc]

Hallie Jackson introduced MSNBC correspondent Gaddi Schwartz for a segment in which we learn about something called "deep fakes" -- and yeah, it's scary.

"Talk through this viral video you're about to show. It is a jaw-dropper, I think, to a lot of folks," Jackson said.

Schwartz shows a video starts off with a click bait headline. "It's 'watch what Obama says in this video,' but you have to watch it very, very carefully. Take a look."

The Obama video is really something called a deep fake -- a video made with artificial intelligence that's difficult if not impossible to spot, he points out.

"But now experts say more deep fake apps are in the works that will give people the power to take someone's face and put it on someone else's body," Schwartz said.

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/04/terrifying-next-wave-fake-news-here

[mr_lebowski]

1. You don't have to watch that carefully ... Peele comes on in split-screen and shows that he is ...

doing Obama's voice halfway through the video.

It *IS* pretty damn terrifying though.

[OnDoutside]

2. It was easy to spot that it wasn't Obama's voice, but surely they can take his many previous

recordings and reproduce his voice using the different words ?

[blondebanshee]

3. Deep Fakes as a Threat to National Security and Democracy

Deep fake technology inserts individuals’ faces into videos without their permission. The result is “believable videos of people doing and saying things they never did.”
Deep fakes raise the stakes for the “fake news” phenomenon in dramatic fashion

Truly TERRIFYING!

[blondebanshee]

4. Deep Fakes: A Looming Crisis for National Security, Democracy and Privacy?

[link:https://www.lawfareblog.com/deep-fakes-looming-crisis-national-security-democracy-and-privacy|

[eppur_se_muova]

5. We've finally reached the point where photographic "evidence" is meaningless.

I've been worried about this for years. Knew it was inevitable. Not much can be done to put this genie back in the bottle.

I wonder how many court cases have been won or lost largely on photographic evidence ? The easier it becomes to fake evidence, the less the confidence in it.

[bobbieinok]

6. Yrs ago read mysteries showing how voice recordings could be altered, faked. W era had some faked ph