The Future Will Be Synthesised - Episode 2
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Ever since the 2018 mid-term elections in the US, people have been sounding the alarm that a deepfake could be used to disrupt or compromise a democratic process. These fears have not yet come to pass, but recently deepfakes of Zelensky and Putin were deployed as the Ukrainian conflict escalated. How much disruption did these deepfakes cause? How convincing were they? And are they an omen of things to come? Could deepfakes enhance disinformation campaigns that already cause significant harm? Presenter and synthetic media expert Henry Ajder unpicks the most recent deepfake video and speaks to a journalist who reported on an unusual news report which used a deepfake news presenter to attempt to spread disinformation in Mali. Interviewees: Kateryna Fedotenko, Ukraine 24; Sam Gregory, Witness; Catherine Bennett, Le Monde/ France 24
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, I'm Henry Ida, and this is seriously from BBC Radio 4. In part two of the future will be |
| 0:46.5 | synthesised I investigate the ways deep fakes can be used to spread disinformation with |
| 0:51.3 | real examples from Ukraine and Mali. I also speak to Sam Gregory from the |
| 0:56.0 | Human Rights Organization witness about how deepfakes had been weaponized. This play This clip is from a video which appears to show Ukraine's President Zellensky telling |
| 1:20.0 | his people to surrender. It emerged in mid-March just a few weeks into Russia's |
| 1:25.3 | invasion of Ukraine. While shells were falling on Kyiv and major cities across |
| 1:29.7 | Ukraine, here was the president ordering the country to give up. |
| 1:33.0 | He ends the video by saying, |
| 1:35.0 | it is not worth it dying in this war. |
| 1:37.0 | My advice to you is to live. |
| 1:39.0 | I am going to do the same. |
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