<story><title>The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611146/the-us-military-is-funding-an-effort-to-catch-deepfakes-and-other-ai-trickery/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexandrB</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re rapidly heading into a world where every form of non-fictional media has to be mediated by a trusted third party because we have no way to distinguish what&amp;#x27;s true from what&amp;#x27;s fabricated with our own senses. This is a complete reversal of the verifying power that images, audio, and video once provided to everybody &lt;i&gt;regardless&lt;/i&gt; of income or education. Think about some of the potent imagery that came out of wars like WWII and Vietnam, for example.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re not too far away from the manufacture of literal &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; out of whole cloth. I&amp;#x27;m not sure this bodes well for the idea of an informed electorate.</text></comment>
<story><title>The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611146/the-us-military-is-funding-an-effort-to-catch-deepfakes-and-other-ai-trickery/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>Humans have such issues with confirmation bias [1] that I worry it&amp;#x27;s not going to matter.&lt;p&gt;The last election already had algorithmically generated artificial news designed to sway people (note: I&amp;#x27;m talking FB articles with headlines like &amp;quot;$POLITICIAN just insulted $NICHE_AUDIENCE. STOP THEM.&amp;quot; that linked to articles that were scraped&amp;#x2F;spun from other sources). They relied upon people not actually reading and just hitting like&amp;#x2F;forward&amp;#x2F;heart whatever and spreading the top level message.&lt;p&gt;We are not going to be able to convince ourselves, never mind other people, that video (which has been the gold standard for &amp;quot;truth&amp;quot; for nearly a century) isn&amp;#x27;t actually real.&lt;p&gt;Case in point: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0&lt;/a&gt; (which was included in the article) has comments from people deeply confused by it on YT.&lt;p&gt;1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;why-facts-dont-change-our-minds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;why-facts-dont...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>