Deep Fakes: A Looming Crisis for National Security, Democracy and Privacy?
Manipulating images, sound, or video to convincingly mislead the public could take so-called “fake news” to a new level.
Recent events amply demonstrate that false claims—even preposterous ones—can be peddled with unprecedented success today thanks to a combination of social media ubiquity and virality, cognitive biases, filter bubbles, and group polarization. The resulting harms are significant for individuals, businesses, and democracy. Belated recognition of the problem has spurred a variety of efforts to address this most recent illustration of truth decay, and at first blush there seems to be reason for optimism. Alas, the problem may soon take a significant turn for the worse thanks to deep fakes.
Source: Deep Fakes: A Looming Crisis for National Security, Democracy and Privacy? – Lawfare
