{"id":109193,"date":"2020-06-27T06:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/high-quality-deepfake-videos-made-with-ai-seen-as-a-national-security-threat"},"modified":"2020-06-27T06:36:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:36:31","slug":"high-quality-deepfake-videos-made-with-ai-seen-as-a-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/high-quality-deepfake-videos-made-with-ai-seen-as-a-national-security-threat","title":{"rendered":"High-quality Deepfake Videos Made with AI Seen as a National Security Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-quality-deepfake-videos-made-with-ai-seen-as-a-national-security-threat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI is concerned that AI is being used to create deepfake videos that are so convincing they cannot be distinguished from reality.<\/p>\n<p>The alarm was sounded by an FBI executive at a WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Symposium held recently in San Diego. \u201cWhat we\u2019re concerned with is that, in the digital world we live in now, people will find ways to weaponize deep-learning systems,\u201d stated Chris Piehota, executive assistant director of the FBI\u2019s science and technology division, in an account in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/fbi-warns-deepfakes-might-become-indistinguishable-from-reality-11579257004?mod=djemAIPro\">WSJPro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The technology behind deepfakes and other disinformation tactics are enhanced by AI. The FBI is concerned natural security could be compromised by fraudulent videos created to mimic public figures. \u201cAs the AI continues to improve and evolve, we\u2019re going to get to a point where there\u2019s no discernible difference between an AI-generated video and an actual video,\u201d Piehota stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is concerned that AI is being used to create deepfake videos that are so convincing they cannot be distinguished from reality. The alarm was sounded by an FBI executive at a WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Symposium held recently in San Diego. \u201cWhat we\u2019re concerned with is that, in the digital world we live in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}