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December 12, 2020
Deepfakes: Trick or Treat?
DEEPFAKES DEEP DIVE
Deepfakes are amazing. They're also terrifying for our future. Everything you need to know about the technology that poses real dangers to our democracy.
+ Kristina Libby
The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes: Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI—but this may be the beginning of an arms race.
+ Will Knightarchive
When seeing is no longer believing: Inside the Pentagon’s race against deepfake videos: Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video – known as “deepfakes” – relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level.
+ CNN Business
The biggest threat of deepfakes isn’t the deepfakes themselves: The mere idea of AI-synthesized media is already making people stop believing that real things are real.
+ Karen Hao
How and why deepfake videos work — and what is at risk: Deepfakes swap celebrities' faces into porn videos and put words in politicians' mouths, but they could do a lot worse.
+ JM Porup
What are deepfakes – and how can you spot them? AI-generated fake videos are becoming more common (and convincing). Here’s why we should be worried.
+ Ian Sample
Facebook just released a database of 100,000 deepfakes to teach AI how to spot them: The videos are designed to help improve AI’s performance—as even the best methods are still not accurate enough.
+ Will Douglas Heaven
Is your company ready to protect its reputation from deepfakes? Social media platforms finally appear to be making a real effort to take on fake news. But manipulative posts may soon be the least of our problems. What looms ahead are deep fakes, realistic forgeries of people appearing to say or do things that never actually happened. Imagine, for example, an authentic-seeming video that shows your CEO promising to donate $100 million to a charitable cause — or saying something racist or sexist. Companies’ crisis communication plans must begin to address these kinds of scenarios and be ready to call out malicious fictions before they do too much damage.
+ Aviv Ovadya + Hal Bienstock
Business in the age of computational propaganda and deepfakes: False news is about to go to a whole new level.
+ Scott Berinato
The ‘South Park’ guys break down their viral deepfake video: In an interview, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and their collaborator Peter Serafinowicz discuss the back story of “Sassy Justice,” their deepfake video that used images of President Trump and others.
+ Dave Itzkoff
BRIGADOON WATCHES | VIDEOS ON DEEPFAKES
Researcher explains deepfake videos: Sam Gregory, program director at the human rights nonprofit Witness, talks with Wired senior writer Tom Simonite about the implications of deepfake videos and how we can adjust to this new and improving technology.
+ Wired
What is a deepfake? Video examples with Nicolas Cage, Jennifer Lawrence, Barack Obama show a troubling trend
+ Fortune
Watch: In Event of Moon Disaster
How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy
+ Danielle Citron | TEDSummit 2019
Deepfakes: Why you can't believe everything you see and hear
+ Joseph Palermo | TEDxToronto
Adversarial deepfakes: Evaluating the vulnerability of deepfake detectors to adversarial examples
+ University of California San Diego
BRIGADOON READS | BOOKS ON DEEPFAKES
Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse
+ Nina Schick
DeepFake Technology: Complete Guide to Deepfakes, Politics, and Social Media
+ Nobert Young
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
+ Shoshana Zuboff
TWEET
What’s synthetic and manipulated media?
It’s media that’s been significantly altered or created in a way that changes the original meaning/purpose, or makes it seem like certain events took place that didn’t actually happen.
The new policy will address this type of content, specifically when it could threaten someone’s physical safety or lead to offline harm.
Why are we doing this?
1️⃣We need to consider how synthetic media is shared on Twitter in potentially damaging contexts.
2️⃣We want to listen and consider your perspectives in our policy development process.
3️⃣We want to be transparent about our approach and values.
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Have a great weekend. See you next week.
-Marc
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