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Twitter Plans to Make Policy Changes to Help Combat Deepfakes

posted by janrinok on Thursday October 24 2019, @10:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-shallow-fakes dept.

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Twitter plans to make policy changes to help combat deepfakes

Twitter said Monday it's going to make policy changes around how it deals with manipulated videos such as deepfakes and it's asking the public for help.

"We think that a lot of people will have an interest in this space," said Twitter Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde at the WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California.

Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to create videos of people doing or saying something they didn't. Social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, have been grappling with manipulated videos ahead of the 2020 elections. Earlier this year, Twitter and Facebook left up an altered video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that made it seem like she was slurring her words, a move that drew criticism, especially from Democrats.

[...] Twitter said in a tweet that it will start gathering public feedback in the coming weeks.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 25 2019, @02:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 25 2019, @02:30AM (#911472)

    if twitter is shutdown, twitter won't be able to spread deep fakes. and fake news. seems like a win-win.