Considering the Ramifications of Deepfakes
Deepfakes have received more than a little press over the last few years because everyone thinks it’s pretty amazing when Diep Nep becomes Morgan Freeman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxXpB9pSETo). Yes, deepfakes (also known as synthetic reality) have some fantastic uses for both work and pleasure. However, the technology also represents one of the most terrifying security issues for users of deep learning today. How can you trust anything said by anyone during a video chat when you can’t even be sure you’re talking with the person in question, rather than a hacker? That video security system with facial recognition that your organization just purchased is completely worthless when it comes to deepfakes because it’s possible now to create fake faces (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/2/15/18226005/ai-generated-fake-people-portraits-thispersondoesnotexist-stylegan). Any thoughts you had of using biometric authentication...