I believe this topic has been raised here before in certain threads, or at least, topics along similar lines.
Who needs lying politicians/talking heads when AI can lie for them? Of course, this is merely the beginning, and represents only the tech presented overtly to the consumer. Sorcery of this sort has been available covertly for some time, though perhaps used sparingly before, and even then, to non-public entities.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/1865 ... -new-words
AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say
The software uses 3D models of the target’s face to generate new footage.
In the latest example of deepfake technology, researchers have shown off new software that uses machine learning to let users edit the text transcript of a video to add, delete, or change the words coming right out of somebody’s mouth.
The work was done by scientists from Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University, and Adobe Research, and shows that our ability to edit what people say in videos and create realistic fakes is becoming easier every day.
You can see a number of examples of the system’s output below, including an edited version of a famous quotation from Apocalypse Now, with the line “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” changed to “I love the smell of french toast in the morning.”
This work is just at the research stage right now and isn’t available as consumer software, but it probably won’t be long until similar services go public. Adobe, for example, has already shared details on prototype software named VoCo, which lets users edit recordings of speech as easily as a picture, and which was used in this research.
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywyx ... deo-policy
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06- ... -deepfaked
This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies
A fake video of Mark Zuckerberg giving a sinister speech about the power of Facebook has been posted to Instagram. The company previously said it would not remove this type of video.
Two artists and an advertising company created a deepfake of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg saying things he never said, and uploaded it to Instagram.
The video, created by artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe in partnership with advertising company Canny, shows Mark Zuckerberg sitting at a desk, seemingly giving a sinister speech about Facebook's power. The video is framed with broadcast chyrons that say "We're increasing transparency on ads," to make it look like it's part of a news segment.
In an instagram post with almost 3,000 views (more we suspect any minute), a fake video of Zuckerberg created using "deepfake" technology proclaims the following chilling statement:"Imagine this for a second..."
"One man with total control of billions of people's stolen data. All their secrets, their lives, their futures. I owe it all to Spectre."
"Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data, controls the future."
The video was first spotted by Vice, was posted by an Instagram account known as @bill_posters_uk. The original, real video is from a September 2017 address Zuckerberg gave about Russian election interference on Facebook.
Related, within RI:
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