Fake Obama created using AI video tool - BBC News
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a concrete early example that AI-faked video was already convincing, in discussions of misinformation and trust in media.
What it is
A BBC News segment on University of Washington research that synthesized a photorealistic Obama video, modeling mouth movement so any audio can be put in his mouth.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Cites Nadya · 2018-06 · on “Keybase Exploding Messages”
Photo, audio, and video evidence should already be dismissed until one is able to verify the integrity and source. All of these can already be believably faked - it's just a matter of educating people that a layperson can easily create fake things by using tools developed by research teams. Fake text is the easiest to fake if you can identify the font used - any image editor will work. HN uses 9pt Verdana, even without using dev tools I could fake your post to say anything I wanted it to say since it would just be 9pt Verdana on a solid background set to text wrap every 1050px. See: [LINK] & [this video]
Cites y4mi · 2018-07 · on “Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign”
It's called agree of misinformation because it's become increasingly easy to produce convincing fake footage. It's entirely possible to fake a real-time video interview for instance using voice synthesis and mapping the face of your target upon your face. It's frighteningly convincing. I.e. [this video]
Cites MonAlternatiu · 2020-12 · on “We can have democracy or we can have Facebook”
Many reasons. - For one when a news article is incorrect it is very easy to hold accountable the source of that information. How many people keep track of who said what on the internet? - Fake Information takes more time to respond to than true information. False news travels 6 times faster (..) than truthful news [0]. - Media has a cycle of information that is way slower and more curated (even if manipulative) which allows true information to be heard louder. - It's becoming easier and easier to fake image, video, and audio in a way never seen before [1]. - It's way easier for platforms like FB and Twitter and YT to make you spiral down a rabbit hole of similar content. Sure, this did happe