Social media should be accountable for ‘deepfake’ content, intelligence experts say

An article on American Military News reports on testimony presented to the House Intelligence Committee by David Doermann, director of UB’s Artificial Intelligence Institute and an Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, about “deepfakes,” artificial intelligence that now allows people to compose entirely made-up videos that show politicians saying things they never said.

The article notes that Doermann monitored the growth of deepfake technology while serving for five years as director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aimed at combating the phenomenon. Technology is advancing so fast that it is now possible for perpetrators to cover up evidence that they have manipulated a video, he said. “A lot of trace evidence can be destroyed with simple manipulation on top of deepfake.”

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Stories also appeared in news outlets that include KOTV-DT and KHTT-FM in Tulsa, KMVU-TV in Oregon and Guam Daily Post.