The most urgent threat from deepfakes is not political

The real threat of deepfakes, explained with Kristen Bell. Join the Open Sourced Reporting Network: http://www.vox.com/opensourcednetwork Actress Kristen Bell first discovered there were fake porn videos of her online from her husband, l actor Dax Shepherd. In the videos, her face was manipulated onto the bodies of porn stars. “I was just shocked,” the actress told Vox. “It’s hard to think I’m being exploited.” And it doesn’t just happen to celebrities. Noelle Martin, a recent law graduate in Perth, Australia, discovered that someone was taking photos she had shared on social media and using them first to Photoshop her face into nude images and then to create fake videos. Deepfakes are often presented as a political threat: fake videos of politicians making comments they never made. But in a recent report, research group Deeptrace found that 96% of deepfakes found online are pornographic. Among these videos, almost all depict women. And almost all of them are carried out without their consent. Sources: “The State of Deepfakes” https://deeptracelabs.com/resources/ Definition of “Deepfake” https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17380306/deepfake-definition-ai-manipulation- fake- news “Deepfakes and Cheapfakes: the manipulation of audio and visual evidence” https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DS_Deepfakes_Cheap_FakesFinal-1.pdf “An introduction to neural networks and auto- encoders” https://www.alanzucconi.com/2018/03/14/an-introduction-to-autoencoders/ “Deep Fakes: an imminent challenge to privacy, democracy and national security” https://papers .ssrn.com/sol3/papers. cfm?abstract_id=3213954 Open Sourced is a year-long reporting project from Recode by Vox that delves deeper into closed ecosystems of data, privacy, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. To learn more, visit http://www.vox.com/opensourced Join the Open Source Reporting Network: http://www.vox.com/opensourcednetwork This project is made possible by the Omidyar Network. All Open Source content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. Watch all episodes of Open Sourced here on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2tIHftD Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events that make headlines. Visit http://www.vox.com. Watch our complete video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H

source