NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 7:42 PM UTC

cj wrote: post #25

darkclouds wrote: post #2

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You have one of the scariest HN bios I have ever read.

Post by broscillator » Sun, Oct 01, 2023, 9:12 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #187

broscillator wrote: post #161

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I don't think photos are the real issue, it's video with voice. Think of telephone scams, and now apply deepfake versions of a family member to it. Imagine your 70yo aunt having to deal with knowing if the whatsapp audio or zoom call that sounds/looks like you is really you. I don't think this was possible before, feel free to prove me wrong with some evidence.

Video is just many photos in series. In the past to find the right person to imitate someone elses voice you'd have to do a lot of casting trials/etc that would cost a lot of money. So it was restricted to only large corps, governments, institutions, etc. But now any human person can do it. And that's great.

Post by mdrzn » Tue, Oct 03, 2023, 12:20 PM UTC

dudefeliciano wrote: post #79

patwolf wrote: post #64

I'm old enough to remember back in 2005 when terrorist in Iraq claimed to be holding a US soldier hostage, and it turned out the whole thing was staged using photos of a doll: Original story: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/world/africa/rebels-say-t... Confirmation of hoax: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6894934 It's pretty easy to see that the photo is a hoax, but many news outlets didn't notice and ran the story…

I always have to think of the Wu Ming Foundation/former Luther Blisset collective and their fake news/LARPing missions[1] that showed how easy it was to fool major news outlets back in the 90s. Too bad that now those same techniques have been weaponized with great success. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_(pseudonym)#Li...