The Deepfake Dilemma by Ruben Faulkner (.PDF)
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The Deepfake Dilemma: Safeguarding Institutions and Citizens in the Digital Age (Computer Science, Technology and Applications) by Ruben Faulkner
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Overview: This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the rapid advancement of deepfake technology and its profound implications for national security, public trust, and individual rights. Drawing from congressional reports, expert testimony, and legislative analysis, it presents a critical assessment of the threats posed by synthetic media and explores the multifaceted legal, policy, and technological strategies being developed to counteract them. Deepfakes can be put to a variety of productive uses. They are used to enhance video games and other forms of entertainment, and they are being used to advance medical research as well, but deepfake technology can also be weaponized and cause great harm. It can be used to make people appear to say or do things that they have not said or done. It can be used to perpetuate various crimes, including financial fraud and intellectual property theft. It can also be used by anti-American actors to create national security threats, and these are not hypothetical harms. The introduction of generative adversarial networks, or GANs, kicked off a plethora of tools that can generate images of people and objects that do not exist, synthesize speech that clones voices of others, implements real-time puppeteering to control talking heads, and, as we hear most, the ability to generate deepfake videos. The surprise we missed perhaps is the automated tools that are becoming more accessible and user friendly. They require a lot less data and a lot less technical expertise. Open-source software can be downloaded today and run by any one of us on a commodity laptop.
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