SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
"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: 3, Informative) by bussdriver on Tuesday May 05 2020, @06:26PM (4 children)
You are not smart enough, you should post anonymously to avoid outing yourself. Not that this will change your mind since you are likely so confident you can't see it.
Biden had nothing to do with the crime Trump was 100% guilty of. The excuse was not at all relevant. Trump had zero right to withhold evidence; which is the same obstruction crime that mobsters use to prevent themselves from being convicted of the serious crimes; that and also tax evasion -- because they clearly are mobsters but because they keep their crimes so secret they avoid taxes on their illegal actions that is all you can get them on. Oh, we also have Trump ILLEGALLY withholding all his taxes. That law is clear cut and obvious, you can read it yourself.
There is so much blatant corruption going on and the media can't pick something and do it's job; a new distraction happens every day. Literally 100,000 people will die mostly due to Trump and he is getting away with it, by distraction and the apathy and gullibility of the voting public.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Tuesday May 05 2020, @08:34PM (2 children)
Withhold evidence of what crime?
Well, something that actually looks like it has some evidence [vox.com] for it. Though those particular shenanigans appeared to have ended in the mid 1990s. But maybe there's similar transfers of wealth to Trump's children?
Evidence?
Evidence? I notice that a large portion of those people will be from Democrat-run states which didn't do their jobs either (for example, 12k deaths so far in New York City).
I don't mind demanding assuming existence of wrong-doing under circumstances of opaque government operation or lack of accountability. But this is probably the best monitored presidency in a few generations, and well, you just don't have a lot of dirt to reflect the claims you're making.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2020, @04:12PM (1 child)
Wow, dumber than we all thought.
Pay no mind to Trump saying he will release them, the subpoenas for them, or the criiminal running the DOJ who got those convinced the next WH to let off the treasonous Iran Contra bastards. Have you no spine? Or just that much of a political cuckold?
Wow, you got even more dumb within the span of a single post! Someone call Guinness.
Holy hell, HAT TRICK! Khallow, you win the game of ignorant stupidity. Congrats pal!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 07 2020, @01:47PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @10:33PM
You really should do your research on the Biden family and the corruption in Ukraine during the Obama years.
Just who installed the "US friendly" politicians in Ukraine?
"Biden had nothing to do ..." are you serious?
It should be pretty apparent that both Democrooks and Republocrooks are just as bad --
its past time to get rid of all corrupted polictical entities.