Deep fake news:
"The Brookings Institution warns that "fact checking" will become a lot harder in the
21st century as artificial intelligence becomes better at producing "deep fake news"
creating counterfeits so good they are difficult to distinguish from the Real McCoy.
"Because the algorithms that generate the fakes continuously learn how to more
effectively replicate the appearance of reality, deep fakes cannot easily be detected by
other algorithms—indeed, in the case of generative adversarial networks, the
algorithm works by getting really good at fooling itself."
The technology to fake videos, photographs and sound clips is now so good even
Hollywood is increasingly using digital actors. Moreover artificial intelligence can
weave these fakes into a superficially self-consistent universe of lies creating a false
narrative whose fraudulence can only be exposed by painstaking comparison to
reality. Naturally this has sent a Washington bruised by the populist uprising
scrambling for defenses. "To address the democratization of disinformation,
governments, civil society, and the technology sector therefore cannot rely on
algorithms alone, but will instead need to invest in new models of social verification,
too," Brookings writes.
The think tank recommends spending billions on research to combat hostile AI. It
also suggests government partnerships with social media companies to prevent their
use to spread fake news. But this may expose even bigger vulnerabilities."
See:
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/deep-fake-news/