Jon Snow's deepfake apology video is a parody. But the problem is no laughing matter

Published June 18, 2019 This content is archived.

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An article in Fortune about a deepfake video published on YouTube that appears to show Game of Thrones actor Kit Harrington – in character as Jon Snow – apologizing for several mistakes made during the controversial eighth season of the hit HBO show quotes testimony by David Doermann, made during a House Intelligence Committee hearing last week.

“Let there be no question that this is a race. The better the manipulators get, the better the detectors need to be. And there are certainly orders of magnitude more manipulators in the race than detectors,” said Doermann, director of UB's Artificial Intelligence Institute and an Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

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The article also appeared on Yahoo Finance.