How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy | Danielle Citron

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The use of deepfake technology to manipulate video and audio for malicious purposes -- whether it's to stoke violence or defame politicians and journalists -- is becoming a real threat. As these tools become more accessible and their products more realistic, how will they shape what we believe about the world? In a portentous talk, law professor Danielle Citron reveals how deepfakes magnify our distrust -- and suggests approaches to safeguarding the truth.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Elise Hugh. This is TED Talks Daily. Law professor Danielle Citron is an expert on deep fakes. They are digitally doctored videos that can be weaponized to do serious harm and endanger lives. They fabricate people in recordings to show them doing or saying things they didn't even say.
0:21.7	In her archive talk from TED Summit 2019, Citron warns of the dangers of deepfakes on our
0:27.1	democracies and sense of truth. It's an alarming picture of the present and near future.
0:33.1	But by the end, you'll leave with some solutions on how to be smarter about fakery and online abuse.
0:39.0	And we should mention this talk does have mature content.
0:44.5	Rana Ayyub is a journalist in India whose work has exposed government corruption and human rights violations.
0:54.0	And over the years, she's gotten used to vitriol and controversy around her work,
0:58.8	but none of it could have prepared her for what she faced in April 2018.
1:04.8	She was sitting in a cafe with a friend when she first saw it,
1:08.8	a two-minute, 20-second video of her engaged in a sex act.
1:14.2	She couldn't believe her eyes. She had never made a sex video. But unfortunately,
1:20.3	thousands upon thousands of people would believe it was her. I interviewed Ms. Ayub
1:27.0	about three months ago in connection with my book on was her. I interviewed Ms. Ayub about three months ago
1:28.3	in connection with my book on sexual privacy.
1:31.3	I'm a law professor, lawyer, and civil rights advocate.
1:35.3	So it was incredibly frustrating,
1:38.3	knowing that right now, law could do very little to help her.
1:42.3	And as we talked, she explained that she should have seen
1:46.3	the fake sex video coming. She said, after all, sex is so often used to demean and to shame
1:53.6	women, especially minority women, and especially minority women, who dare to challenge powerful men as she had in her work.
2:03.6	The fake sex video went viral in 48 hours.
2:08.8	All of her online accounts were flooded with screenshots of the video,
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