Fighting Deep Fakes
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Technologies that distort representations of reality, like audio, photo, and video editing software, are nothing new, but what happens when these technologies are paired with artificial intelligence to produce hyper-realistic media of things that never happened? This new phenomenon, called "deep fakes," poses significant problems for lawyers, policymakers, and technologists. On July 19, Klon Kitchen, senior fellow for technology and national security at the Heritage Foundation, moderated a panel with Bobby Chesney of the University of Texas at Austin Law School, Danielle Citron of the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, and Chris Bregler, a senior computer scientist and AI manager at Google. They talked about how deep fakes work, why they don't fit into the current legal and policy thinking, and about how policy, technology, and the law can begin to combat them.
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| 0:30.0 | There's a desire, unfortunately, right? |
| 0:36.0 | And the damage is so profound, right? |
| 0:39.0 | Because if a deep sex fate is in a search of your name, |
| 0:42.0 | it's prominent, right? |
| 0:44.0 | In a Google search, we know that employers, |
| 0:46.0 | and night, over 95% of employers use Google |
| 0:48.0 | as a way to figure out if we should interview someone |
| 0:50.0 | or to hire them. |
| 0:52.0 | It's not that they believe the person |
| 0:54.0 | necessarily made the sex video. |
| 0:56.0 | It's so much easier and cheaper to hire someone |
| 0:58.0 | who doesn't come with the back edge, right? |
| 1:00.0 | So not only is it incredibly psychologically damaging, right? |
| 1:04.0 | You are essentially and effectively put into a sex video |
| 1:08.0 | in ways that you would never imagine you ever would, right? |
| 1:12.0 | And it could be incredibly violent and terrifying. |
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