{"id":2836,"date":"2024-05-22T12:05:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T00:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2024-06-06T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T04:01:10","slug":"deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Fake: The Ingenuity and the Implications"},"content":{"rendered":"

U<\/span>nder\u00a0 the theme of ”\u00a0<\/span>The truth is out there but can you find it?<\/em>”\u00a0 there is perhaps nothing more\u00a0 frighteningly ingeneous than the rise of\u00a0 `Deep Fake’\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

‘`Deep Fake’.<\/strong><\/em>–“an image or recording that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

See:\u00a0How Machine Learning Drives the Deceptive World of Deepfakes<\/a><\/p>\n

Aside from malicious purposes like spreading misinformation, stealing identities and pushing propaganda, in the context of science communication `Deep Fake’\u00a0 technology opens the potential\u00a0 for undermining important public\u00a0 health science initiatives\u00a0 and misrepresenting\u00a0 scientific research findings\u00a0 especially those that rely\u00a0 on significant\u00a0 levels of public\/political\u00a0 support.<\/span><\/p>\n

They could also pose\u00a0 a new threat to image fabrication in scientific publications<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the most famous examples of Deep Fake\u00a0 involved\u00a0 former\u00a0 president Nixon\u00a0 delivering a\u00a0 speech\u00a0 on an\u00a0 Apollo 11 Mission failure.\u00a0 While\u00a0 a speech was written\u00a0 at the in the event\u00a0 the mission did fail it was never needed, nor was it ever recorded. The Deepfake video was produced at MIT for educational purposes.<\/p>\n

And there have been many other examples of Deep Fakes involving past and present politicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Check it out here<\/a>\u00a0 along with\u00a0 some interesting background as to why they did it and further exploration of the Deepfake phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Former President Nixon delivering speech on Apollo 11 mission failure\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

So how do you spot a `Deep Fake’\u00a0 \u00a0image or video. Badly made Deep Fake videos can be fairly easy to pick\u00a0 but identifying higher-quality Deep Fakes\u00a0 is not so easy and\u00a0 advances in technology is making it much more difficult.<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Classic tips are:<\/p>\n