https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ted-radio-hour/id523121474?i=1000496568099
False information on the internet makes it harder and harder to know what’s true, and the consequences have been devastating. This hour, TED speakers explore ideas around technology and deception. Guests include law professor Danielle Citron, journalist Andrew Marantz, and computer scientist Joy Buolamwini.
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Reuters releases guide to recognizing deepfake profile photos from r/technology
https://graphics.reuters.com/CYBER-DEEPFAKE/ACTIVIST/nmovajgnxpa/index.html
GAN A generative adversarial network is the name given to dueling computer programs that run through a process of trial and error… One program, the generator, sequentially fires out millions of attempts at a face; the second program, the discriminator, tries to sniff out whether the first program’s face is a fake. If the discriminator can’t tell, Li said, a deepfake is produced.
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Pew research: Tech experts believe social media is harming democracy from r/technology
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/21/many-tech-experts-say-digital-disruption-will-hurt-democracy/
The years of almost unfettered enthusiasm about the benefits of the internet have been followed by a period of techlash as users worry about the actors who exploit the speed, reach and complexity of the internet for harmful purposes. Over the past four years – a time of the Brexit decision in the United Kingdom, the American presidential election and a variety of other elections – the digital disruption of democracy has been a leading concern.
Some think the information and trust environment will worsen by 2030 thanks to the rise of video deepfakes, cheapfakes and other misinformation tactics.
Power Imbalance: Democracy is at risk because those with power will seek to maintain it by building systems that serve them not the masses. Too few in the general public possess enough knowledge to resist this assertion of power.
EXPLOITING DIGITAL ILLITERACY
danah boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research and founder of Data & Society, wrote, “The problem is that technology mirrors and magnifies the good, bad AND ugly in everyday life. And right now, we do not have the safeguards, security or policies in place to prevent manipulators from doing significant harm with the technologies designed to connect people and help spread information.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/07/facebook-bans-deepfake-videos-in-run-up-to-us-election
Some news organisations, including the BBC, New York Times and Buzzfeed have made their own “deepfake” videos, ostensibly to spread awareness about the techniques. Those videos, while of varying quality, have all contained clear statements that they are fake.
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https://www.npr.org/2020/01/07/794171662/facebook-issues-new-rules-on-deepfake-videos-targeting-manipulation
Facebook’s new ban targets videos that are manipulated to make it appear someone said words they didn’t actually say.
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This startup claims its deepfakes will protect your privacy
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LikeWar
https://www.npr.org/books/titles/655833359/likewar-the-weaponization-of-social-media
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2018-10-16/likewar-weaponization-social-media
https://information-professionals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018-10-25-LikeWar.pdf
https://madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/87-likewar-the-weaponization-of-social-media/
“Social media had changed not just the message, but the dynamics of conflict. How information was being accessed, manipulated, and spread had taken on new power. Who was involved in the fight, where they were located, and even how they achieved victory had been twisted and transformed. Indeed, if what was online could swing the course of a battle — or eliminate the need for battle entirely — what, exactly, could be considered ‘war’ at all?“
Even American gang members are entering the fray as super-empowered individuals, leveraging social media to instigate killing s via “Facebook drilling” in Chicago or “wallbanging” in Los Angeles.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-09-24-the-challenge-of-teaching-news-literacy
Everybody’s talking about deepfakes in 2020, that’s not something we were talking about in 2016, maybe even in 2018.
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https://www.thefakenewsgenerator.com/
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