Hi and welcome to malicious life in collaboration with Cybers. I'm Ren Levy.

In our previous episode we learned about Gunn, an artificial intelligence technology

developed in 2014 that's already looking to revolutionize

the way we create content across a variety of media from images and videos to

audio and text.

Gunn is based on the idea of adversarial training.

Two neural networks compete against each other.

One produces false information, for example fake images of

human faces and the other tries to identify these forgeries and distinguish them

from photographs of real human beings.

The result is an artificial neural network capable of producing deep fakes of unprecedented quality

and in a fraction of the time and cost required to do so until just a few years ago.

In late 2017, this technology left the realm of academic papers and became available to the general public.

The almost obvious outcome was a flood of pornographic videos in which the faces of the original

actress were replaced with those of Gal Gadot, Scarlet Johanson and others. In other cases actors who appeared in famous movies

were swapped with other well-known actors such as Jim Carey replacing Jack

Nicholson in The Shining, Sylvester Stallone

replaces Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 and so on.

After the first wave of fake celebrity porn clips, fake political clips began to appear as well.

Someone replaced Argentina's president's face with that of Adolf Hitler and those of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump with Dr

evil and Meinie from Austin Powers. I'll let you figure out by yourselves who got to be Dr Evil and who's his minion.

Especially successful was a video in which former President Barack Obama is seen warning the public about the dangers of deep fakes and implores

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