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"If you were to ask me what the key risk in the 2020 election is, I would say it's not deepfakes," said Kathryn Harrison, the founder and CEO of the DeepTrust Alliance, a coalition fighting deepfakes and other kinds of digital disinformation (that is: intentional, malicious false info). "It's actually going to be a true video that will pop up in late October that we won't be able to prove [whether] it's true or false."
This is the bigger, more devious threat, what's known as the Liar's Dividend. The term, popular in deepfake-research circles, means the mere existence of deepfakes gives more credibility to denials. Essentially, deepfakes make it easier for candidates caught on tape to convince voters of their innocence -- even if they're guilty -- because people have learned they can't believe their eyes anymore.
[...] "I don't think anyone's going to see a piece of video content, real or fake, and suddenly change their vote on Election Day," said Clint Watts, distinguished research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who testified to Congress last year about deepfakes and national security. "Trying to convince people Joe Biden touches people too much or whatever….I don't see how people's opinions can be really shaped in this media environment with that."
What worries him more are deepfakes that undermine election integrity -- like an authoritative figure reporting misinformation about turnout, polling site disruptions or voting machines changing your ballot.
Another worry: Deepfakes could destabilize the vote on US soil by causing havoc at a US outpost abroad. Imagine a fake that triggers an attack like the one on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, which became a political flashpoint in the US. State actors like China or Russia, for example, could find an effective strategy in forged videos that endanger US soldiers or US diplomats, particularly in war-torn regions or countries ruled by a dictator, where populations are already struggling to separate truth from propaganda and rumor.
[...] No matter what form an election deepfake tries to take, the time to be on highest alert is right before you cast your vote.
"If it happens 48 hours out of the Election Day," Watts said, "we may not have a chance to fix it."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @04:25AM
Wrong. America is declining because we chose to give rights to darkies. It's a proven fact that darkies want to destroy America. Fools like you are letting them win.
I hate niggers, kikes, wetbacks, towelheads, chinks, injuns, dune coons, curry munchers, japs, gooks, pakis, and all other darkies. I hate darkies for the sole reason that they all hate America and are actively trying to destroy our country. My hate is strong and I'm damned proud of it. In fact, my hate is getting stronger as I talk to you people. However, I'm not racist, and there's nothing racist about my comment.
Democrats like you will try to discredit my comment by labeling me a racist. In fact, you're racist because you allow darkies to engage in lawlessness that would never be tolerated from a true American. Niggers prowl the streets of our cities, stealing our money and our goods, then murdering people with guns. Wetbacks smuggle contraband across our southern border, then take away our jobs. Kikes are greedy and are swindling us out of our hard-earned money at every turn. Injun reservations are hotbeds of crime and full of lazy drunk darkies. Sand niggers attacked us on 9/11, killing thousands of innocent Americans, then continued to plot additional terrorist attacks. Darkies are constantly attacking America because they hate us.
Our demise is because fools like you continue to tolerate darkies in our country. Of course, we all know you and the jap, Osama Hazuki, also truly hate America.
Go back to your country. We need to elect a President who will rid our country of darkies, not an idiot like Trump. Hillary was our last best chance to stop the rising threat of darkies within our country, but we foolishly elected Trump. I can only hope that Biden selects Hillary as his running mate, so maybe we could have some hope of purging our country of darkies.