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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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(Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Friday June 14 2019, @08:51PM (4 children)
For last 10000 or more years the humanity didn't care much about truth so Post-Truth Era is already in full swing..
(Score: 3, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday June 14 2019, @10:34PM (3 children)
Oh, for the past 10000 years people cared deeply about "truth." They just had different standards for it compared to the scientific-empirical definitions of today.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Saturday June 15 2019, @04:21AM (2 children)
"Science" is our word for our attempt to verify truth by observation and experiment.
And it often conflicts with religion.
My tagline exactly states my take on it. And took a lot less words too.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday June 16 2019, @01:32PM (1 child)
I think you said almost exactly what I did.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday June 16 2019, @09:49PM
I guess I am still seething over a discussion I had with a "Man of the Cloth" who seemed to have convinced his flock to base their lives on hearsay.
My attempts to verify his claims was seen as a demonstration of my lack of faith.
I left, considering his flock the intellectual equivalent of washing machine agitators ... All they did was hold their hands up and wag back and forth. But they didn't even do a wash of clothing. Just made a lot of noise.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]