Latest in deep fakes
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will host a hearing entitled "The National Security Challenge of Artificial Intelligence, Manipulated Media, and ‘Deepfakes’" at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday. A video of the hearing is available below.
In the run-up to the 2020 election, both political campaigns and platforms should take steps to mitigate the harm from deceptively edited videos—not just sophisticated “deepfakes” but less convincing forms of fraud as well.
Join Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron on Thursday, July 18 at the Heritage Foundation for a discussion on the looming challenges “deep fakes” pose for national security and privacy.
“Deep fakes” may seem like an intractable problem. But victims may find legal recourse through the right of publicity, which allows an individual to “control the commercial use of his or her identity.”
One possible solution.
Manipulating images, sound, or video to convincingly mislead the public could take so-called “fake news” to a new level.