Lawfare Archive: Fighting Deep Fakes
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🗓️ 15 August 2021
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From August 4, 2018: 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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| 1:23.2 | 15th 2021. Last week the Senate Homeland Security Committee advanced legislation that would |
| 1:28.7 | create a task force on deepfakes and digital provenance in the Department of Homeland |
| 1:32.6 | Security. The unanimous decision to do so represents one area of concern about the online |
| 1:37.4 | space shared by both Democrats and Republicans. The task force would be charged with developing |
| 1:41.7 | strategies for combating the spread of deepfakes and creating methods to authenticate the |
| 1:45.4 | origins of online content. Though deepfakes have been a preoccupation of legislators for |
| 1:50.1 | years some have criticized the move as premature given that deepfakes are still relatively |
| 1:54.4 | underdeveloped technology. |
| 1:56.5 | For today's episode from the Archives, I went back to August 2018 when Clont Kitchen, |
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