Russia Could Unleash Fake Videos During Election, Schiff Says

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8. Without a doubt.

So glad that Schiff is on this. As always, he is on top of things and is 100% correct. AI and ML are being leveraged to create deep fake videos, audio, personas, and, believe it or not, biometrics (e.g., that fingerprint detector you use to log into your phone, laptop. etc.). As the technology advances, the deep fakes will only get better.

From the link:

In the next election, accentuating those divisions — more than electing a particular candidate — could well be the goal, said Jon B. Alterman, a global security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“The core paradox is the Russians are less interested in specific outcomes than they are in bending the nature of political discourse in the United States,” he said. “They have a mood of internal turmoil that they want to foment.”

Exactly. These groups have been using social media to sew discord for quite some time now. Deep fakes that appear convincingly realistic just make things worse. That said, they don't even need to be all that realistic as, used in conjunction with psyops, the deep fakes are constructed to reinforce beliefs that are already held by the target groups. As such, they are more readily accepted and they are less likely to be scrutinized closely or have their legitimacy questioned.