Disinformation and deepfakes are especially acute concerns in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
The time is July 1969. President Richard Nixon hurriedly takes his seat in the Oval Office, perched in front of an American flag and a flag of the United States seal. The president is clutching a handful of papers laying out a speech written for him by Bill Safire, a senior aide.
Of course, this press conference never actually happened, and Nixon never had to deliver that fateful speech. But a new art installation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology uses artificial intelligence to demonstrate how recent technological advancements can, in a sense, appear to rewrite history.
"We hope that our work will spark critical awareness among the public," said Francesca Panetta, director of the project, titled"In Event of Moon Disaster," in a press release."We want them to be alert to what is possible with today's technology, to explore their own susceptibility, and to be ready to question what they see and hear as we enter a future fraught with challenges over the question of truth.
Disinformation and deepfakes in particular are especially acute challenges in the run-up to next year's presidential election. According to a data security report prepared by Experian,"the technology required for these audio-generated attacks has made transformative progress as a result of breakthroughs in how algorithms can be used to process data."
In May, a recording of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—distorted to make it appear as if she was drunk—began to circulate widely on social media. The video was not altered using the same sophisticated techniques that are applied to deepfakes, but the result was passably convincing.
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