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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(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday October 09 2018, @01:29PM (1 child)
> anyone who takes action based solely upon a video announcement is beyond foolish
A kavanaugh in one, here.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @03:54PM
If he wasn't on a short leash we'd already have WWIII running with full nuclear deployment - not that he's eager to start it, just that he's inept enough to let it happen to him.