{"id":14366,"date":"2018-02-21T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14366"},"modified":"2018-02-21T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:03:12","slug":"14366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/21\/14366\/","title":{"rendered":"This Hole Looks Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law Professor Chesney has a new phrase and an urgent warning about our shared computer future &#8211;\u00a0<i>it&#8217;s gonna suck<\/i>. But didn&#8217;t we get this warning before?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/deep-fakes-looming-crisis-national-security-democracy-and-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/deep-fakes-looming-crisis-national-security-democracy-and-privacy&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883543000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEoeALuxNgHQCgH8GDPKHM8phZIiQ\">Here\u00a0<\/a>he is on\u00a0<i><b>Lawfare<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>\u201cWe are truly fucked.\u201d That was Motherboard\u2019s spot-on\u00a0<a class=\"m_-8866303840101777006gmail-twitter-timeline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bjye8a\/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bjye8a\/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883544000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHM-LTX6quFUb_zQ4zajBEIf6Mc6g\">reaction<\/a>\u00a0to deep fake sex videos (realistic-looking videos that swap a person\u2019s face into sex scenes actually involving other people). And that sleazy application is just the tip of the iceberg. As Julian Sanchez\u00a0<a class=\"m_-8866303840101777006gmail-twitter-timeline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/normative\/status\/956231638446493696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/normative\/status\/956231638446493696&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883544000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHLAruT_N0bJr1EZpn8vFjQb1TDBg\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cThe prospect of any Internet rando being able to swap anyone\u2019s face into porn is incredibly creepy. But my first thought is that we have not even scratched the surface of how bad \u2018fake news\u2019 is going to get.\u201d Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Recent events amply demonstrate that false claims\u2014even preposterous ones\u2014can be peddled with unprecedented success today thanks to a combination of social media ubiquity and virality, cognitive biases, filter bubbles, and group polarization. The resulting harms are significant for\u00a0<a class=\"m_-8866303840101777006gmail-twitter-timeline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newidea.com.au\/jennifer-aniston-and-justin-theroux-baby-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.newidea.com.au\/jennifer-aniston-and-justin-theroux-baby-news&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883544000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEtbVbvEh5rqv1kbWIfxs3OWUK2Kg\">individuals<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"m_-8866303840101777006gmail-twitter-timeline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883544000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEtYN1wucAXOOkmdxRWLHRxdGnkdg\">businesses<\/a>, and\u00a0<a class=\"m_-8866303840101777006gmail-twitter-timeline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2018\/02\/17\/election-related-social-media-post-russian-links-nr.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2018\/02\/17\/election-related-social-media-post-russian-links-nr.cnn&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883544000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFsDutJFt5RUYRRq91RX7eAYiAXPA\">democracy<\/a>. Belated recognition of the problem has spurred a variety of efforts to address this most recent illustration of truth decay, and at first blush there seems to be reason for optimism. Alas, the problem may soon take a significant turn for the worse thanks to deep fakes.<\/p>\n<p>Get used to hearing that phrase. It refers to digital manipulation of sound, images, or video to impersonate someone or make it appear that a person did something\u2014and to do so in a manner that is increasingly realistic, to the point that the unaided observer cannot detect the fake. Think of it as a destructive variation of the Turing test: imitation designed to mislead and deceive rather than to emulate and iterate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Deep fakes<\/i>. An example:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>Fueled by artificial intelligence, digital impersonation is on the rise. Machine-learning algorithms (often neural networks) combined with facial-mapping software enable the cheap and easy fabrication of content that hijacks one\u2019s identity\u2014voice, face, body. Deep fake technology\u00a0<a class=\"m_-8866303840101777006gmail-twitter-timeline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bjye8a\/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bjye8a\/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883544000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHM-LTX6quFUb_zQ4zajBEIf6Mc6g\">inserts<\/a>\u00a0individuals\u2019 faces into videos without their permission. The result is \u201cbelievable videos of people doing and saying things they never did.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;ll soon be seeing film of Ted Cruz father assassinating JFK &#8211; like candidate-Trump once claimed. Or, for that matter, Obama assassinating JFK &#8211; keeping in mind he was all of 2 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;ll be\u00a0<i>your\u00a0<\/i>face captured by security cameras during that\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_164686139\"><span class=\"aQJ\">midnight<\/span><\/span>\u00a0bank robbery. You end up in jail for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Removing the technology seems unlikely &#8211; the cat is out of the bag and sufficient computing power and necessary algorithms are already available. Unless we&#8217;re willing to give up computers, or at least this kind of processing, which I think unlikely in the extreme, we&#8217;re facing a new sort of society, one in which constant tracking and recording may be necessary simply to\u00a0<i>protect\u00a0<\/i>one&#8217;s privacy &#8211; one of those apparent contradictions fraught with peril.<\/p>\n<p>Chesney seems to indicate there are no technologies available for detecting this sort of fraudulent behavior:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>Unfortunately, it is not clear that the defense is keeping pace for now. An arms race to fortify the technology is on, but Dartmouth professor Hany Farid, the pioneer of PhotoDNA (a technology that identifies and blocks child pornography),\u00a0<a class=\"m_-8866303840101777006gmail-twitter-timeline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/gfycat-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/gfycat-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883544000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEf5Bkz7mqUC2QHPgYmMy8b0GPv2g\">warns<\/a>: \u201cWe&#8217;re decades away from having forensic technology that &#8230; [could] conclusively tell a real from a fake. If you really want to fool the system you will start building into the deepfake ways to break the forensic system.\u201d This suggests the need for an increase\u2014perhaps a vast increase\u2014in the resources being devoted to the development of such technologies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only thought I&#8217;d have on the subject is that we need to detect a change to a recording between its initial creation and the viewing of it. Quantum encrypted communications depends on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_entanglement&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519328883544000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF_qqLYjlpfTM8w5-pVqqHDmxZ4Sw\"><i>quantum entanglement\u00a0<\/i><\/a>to detect when communications has been compromised. I don&#8217;t imagine it&#8217;s really practical, but if an initial recording\u00a0<i>could\u00a0<\/i>be linked to something such that the disturbance of the recording broke the link, that might make it possible to detect forgeries. Perhaps some clever physicist could push that thought along.<\/p>\n<p>And that previous warning? <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wag_the_Dog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Wag The Dog<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1997), where we actually see how the public could be manipulated using computer-generated images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law Professor Chesney has a new phrase and an urgent warning about our shared computer future &#8211;\u00a0it&#8217;s gonna suck. But didn&#8217;t we get this warning before?\u00a0Here\u00a0he is on\u00a0Lawfare: \u201cWe are truly fucked.\u201d That was Motherboard\u2019s spot-on\u00a0reaction\u00a0to deep fake sex videos (realistic-looking videos that swap a person\u2019s face into sex scenes \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/21\/14366\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14368,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions\/14368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}