Copy-paste | Blockchain technology will help recognize fake Putin

Blockchain and cryptography are not only about money, and not primarily about money. New technologiescapable of solving much larger problems, for example, recognizing deepfakes.

Deepfakes are often compared to informationweapon of the future. The new word, formed as a result of the fusion of the concepts “deep learning” and “fake”, hides the technology for creating fake videos, which are very difficult to distinguish from the real thing. To create a deepfake, a special computer algorithm based on artificial intelligence is used, which analyzes a large number of images and imitates this content, replacing the video image of one person with the face of another person.

How deep the rabbit hole

Experts around the world are unanimous thatdeepfake technology will open a new milestone in the history of information wars. Tools for creating convincing and believable videos of a person saying something he never actually said opens up endless possibilities for propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of public opinion.

The technology itself is not new.But if a few years ago we laughed at the poorly edited faces of stars in videos with piquant content, today we can hardly recognize the fake Barack Obama calling Trump an “asshole.” Fortunately, the former US president spoke in the voice of impersonator Jordan Peele. And on the eve of a meeting in the US Congress with the participation of Mark Zuckerberg, someone posted a deepfake online with the participation of the head of Facebook, where he talks about how he controls the future of humanity.

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