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As Fake Videos Become More Realistic, Seeing Shouldn't Always be Believing

posted by mrpg on Tuesday October 09 2018, @12:10PM   
from the we-got-you-on-video dept.

"exec" writes:

Original URL: As fake videos become more realistic, seeing shouldn't always be believing.

All it takes is a single selfie.

From that static image, an algorithm can quickly create a moving, lifelike avatar: a video not recorded, but fabricated from whole cloth by software.

With more time, Pinscreen, the Los Angeles start-up behind the technology, believes its renderings will become so accurate they will defy reality.

"You won't be able to tell," said Hao Li, a leading researcher on computer-generated video at USC who founded Pinscreen in 2015. "With further deep-learning advancements, especially on mobile devices, we'll be able to produce completely photoreal avatars in real time."

[...] Now imagine a phony video of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un announcing a missile strike. The White House would have mere minutes to determine whether the clip was genuine and whether it warranted a retaliatory strike.

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• Re:Awful example Re:Awful example (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @12:45PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @12:45PM (#746407)

  anyone who takes action based solely upon a video announcement is beyond foolish.
  You do know who is president?

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• Re:Awful example (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @01:20PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @01:20PM (#746421)

  He would probably assume its fakenews, like that recent nyt fiasco:
  https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45798245 [bbc.com]

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