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posted by martyb on Friday June 14 2019, @05:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the deep-fakes-are-shallow dept.

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."

See also: Deepfake videos could 'spark' violent social unrest
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Previously: House Intelligence Committee to Hold Hearing on "Deepfakes"


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by NotSanguine on Friday June 14 2019, @07:53PM (2 children)

    A priest asked,
    What is Fate, Master?

    And he answered:
    It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence.
    It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs.
    It is that which has caused nations to build by-ways from City to City upon which carts and coaches pass, and alongside which inns have come to be built to stave off Hunger, Thirst and Weariness.
    It is that which has caused great fleets of ships to ply the Seven Seas wherever the wind blows.

    And that is Fate? said the priest.

    Fate... I thought you said Freight, responded the Master.

    That's all right, said the priest. I wanted to know what Freight was too.

    --Kehlog Albran, The Profit

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @09:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @09:42PM (#855772)

    errr...

    That wasn't nearly as clever as it thinks it was...