Posts Tagged ‘deepfake’

30
Sep
2020

deepfake Putin

categories: digital citizenship, Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, educational technology, information literacy, information technology, media literacy

Deepfake Putin is here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom. AI-generated synthetic media is being used in a political ad campaign—not to disrupt the election, but to save it. from r/technology

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/1009098/ai-deepfake-putin-kim-jong-un-us-election/

They then worked with a deepfake artist who used an open-source algorithm to swap in Putin’s and Kim’s faces. A post-production crew cleaned up the leftover artifacts of the algorithm to make the video look more realistic. All in all the process took only 10 days. Attempting the equivalent with CGI likely would have taken months, the team says. It also could have been prohibitively expensive.

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more on deepfake in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=deepfake

18
Jul
2020

recognizing deepfake

categories: Digital literacy, media literacy, social media

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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more on deepfake in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=deepfake

20
Jan
2020

bots and disinformation

categories: Digital literacy, information literacy, information technology, media literacy

Computer-generated humans and disinformation campaigns could soon take over political debate. Last year, researchers found that 70 countries had political disinformation campaigns over two years from r/Futurology

Bots will dominate political debate, experts warn

 

 

Last year, researchers at Oxford University found that 70 countries had political disinformation campaigns over two years.
Perhaps the most notable of such campaigns was that initiated by a Russian propaganda group to influence the 2016 US election result.

he US Federal Communications Commission hosted a period in 2017 where the public could comment on its plans to repeal net neutrality. Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Bruce Schneier notes that while the agency received 22 million comments, many of them were made by fake identities.
Schneier argues that the escalating prevalence of computer-generated personas could “starve” people of democracy

 

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more on deepfake in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=deepfake