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House holds hearing on "deepfakes" and artificial intelligence amid national security concerns
The House Intelligence Committee heard from experts on the threats that so-called "deep fake" videos and other types of artificial intelligence-generated synthetic data pose to the U.S. election system and national security at large. Witnesses at Thursday's hearing included professors from the University of Maryland, University at Buffalo and other experts on AI and digital policy.
In a statement, the committee says it aims to "examine the national security threats posed by AI-enabled fake content, what can be done to detect and combat it, and what role the public sector, the private sector, and society as a whole should play to counter a potentially grim, 'post-truth' future," during Thursday's hearing.
[...]In his opening remarks, Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff said the spread of manipulated videos presents a "nightmarish" scenario for the 2020 presidential elections -- leaving lawmakers, members of the news media and public "struggling to discern what is real and what is fake."
Schiff urged that "now is the time for social media companies to put in place policies to protect users from misinformation, not in 2021 after viral deepfakes have polluted the 2020 elections. By then, it will be too late."
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Previously: House Intelligence Committee to Hold Hearing on "Deepfakes"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @05:54PM (7 children)
The only difference is if it's pre-scripted fakeness, or if they had to fix it in post :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @06:01PM (6 children)
Wrong.
We all love cynicism around here, but culturally it is getting to be a bit much. Cynicism has gone the hipster route, time to reassess and take on the hard job of at least trying to sort through the bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @06:03PM (1 child)
In any news story you read that you have any first-hand knowledge of, even from a 'credible' news outlet,
how much did they get wrong?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday June 14 2019, @06:29PM
When I've had first hand knowledge, the news story was accurate about what they presented, but the context was trimmed in a way calculated to create most emotional reaction.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 14 2019, @07:21PM (3 children)
Nobody on S/N would ever be cynical.
So why is Sanders leaving? Did someone ask her to tell a lie that is so big that even she won't tell it?
Similarly, as this sentence demonstrates, nobody on S/N would ever use sarcasm.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 14 2019, @08:14PM (1 child)
She has been on the job for nearly 2 years, an eternity in the Trump White House and in that position specifically. Now she can kick back for a while and get ready to become Governor of Arkansas.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 15 2019, @01:47AM
The Sarah Sanders "deepfakes" are going to come out real soon, and when they do they won't be pretty*.
* unless you have a fetish for ugly chunky women, which I do.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday June 14 2019, @09:16PM
I bet she was just waiting for the deepfake technology to get reliable enough, that she can just talk remotely and they can just overlay the dialog onto whoever they hire.