If anyone is interested in this and wants to comment on

[turbinetree]

this article, which I believe that it should be posted for our awareness on Fake News.

I just wish that my tv, phone and my computer can or could warn me that it is fake or real with a watermark just like that are on payroll checks, I hope no one is offended


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/26/fake-news-obama-video-trump-face2face-doctored-content

In an age of Photoshop, filters and social media, many of us are used to seeing manipulated pictures – subjects become slimmer and smoother or, in the case of Snapchat, transformed into puppies.

However, there’s a new breed of video and audio manipulation tools, made possible by advances in artificial intelligence and computer graphics, that will allow for the creation of realistic looking footage of public figures appearing to say, well, anything. Trump declaring his proclivity for water sports. Hillary Clinton describing the stolen children she keeps locked in her wine cellar. Tom Cruise finally admitting what we suspected all along … that he’s a Brony.

This is the future of fake news. We’ve long been told not to believe everything we read, but soon we’ll have to question everything we see and hear as well.

For now, there are several research teams working on capturing and synthesizing different visual and and audio elements of human behavior.

[Bladewire]

1. Trying times ahead

If you only knew how we're being technologically manipulated already.

Hint: some phone apps, and phone operating systems, send data back telling the vendor everytime you pick up your phone, when you put it down, the first thing you do in the morning, the last site you visit at night, how long you spend talking on the phone, the other apps you have installed,, etc.

[turbinetree]

4. This is reason why I posted this to make us all aware and to stay aware

[mia]

2. Fascinating and scary

Beyond fake news there are many other implications, said Nitesh Saxena, associate professor and research director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s department of computer science. “You could leave fake voice messages posing as someone’s mum. Or defame someone and post the audio samples online.”

These morphing technologies aren’t yet perfect. The facial expressions in the videos can seem a little distorted or unnatural and the voices can sound a little robotic.

But given time, they will be able to faithfully recreate the sound or appearance of a person – to the point where it might be very difficult for humans to detect the fraud....

“We already see it doesn’t even take doctored audio or video to make people believe something that isn’t true,” added Jenkins. “This has the potential to make it worse.”

[turbinetree]

5. It is scary and very unnerving when we sit back and really take a hard look at what can and is

happening

[SergeStorms]

9. I was always told.....

to believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. It might be time to reassess the percentages of that old axiom.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. That is disconcerting, and certainly capable of fooling many people.

yikes

[turbinetree]

6. It makes me think that when I post a news story on this site or another site I visit

to make people aware that I have to be held reliable and to a higher standard of trust

[hedda_foil]

12. Not just many people ... anybody could be taken in because there would be no way to determine

Which words are real and which are computer generated.

[turbinetree]

18. Its like when you and I were growing up watching cartoons

now its being done by video

[bluepen]

7. Horrifying. I saw this maybe a week or two ago and

meant to share it with friends but forgot. Thank you for posting it and reminding me.

Those who scream "fake news!" are probably the most prolific producers of it, in my opinion. (Just like Trump himself projecting.)

[turbinetree]

19. We the public have to become more diligent and demand some from "reliable " sources

some kind of watermark, just like on our currency, sure it can be counterfeited , but do we need some entity to make sure that it real or fake, because some news organizations or other sites just don't care

[bluepen]

24. No. That would be like state media.

Leave that to the Trumpists.

[turbinetree]

25. Very True...................

[Heartstrings]

8. This is highly disturbing

Thanks for posting!

[turbinetree]

17. Wado-------------Thank you

I just the media had and would let people know and what they are trying to do, this is really scary

[Kablooie]

10. Wow. Fake news will blend into real news imperceptibly in a few years.

The protection the press gives a free democracy may soon dissolve away.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. From this moment on, all news is fake news, until proven otherwise. n/t

[turbinetree]

20. I agree whole heartily, will our sources step in and say something to let us know what they are going

about this , this is truly alarming

[lunasun]

13. Yes I heard about this. Will the defense of it fall under free speech? I suppose so

This + low info voters =

[turbinetree]

21. Then we know who the fake is and in my view they should not be able to operate

I know some may same that you are trampling on a there right, but not propagandists in my opinion

[mwooldri]

14. I'm certain of one thing.

The moment this technology is used to completely impersonate someone in a nefarious manner, the technology that detects the fakes will certainly be developed at a rate that we will be able to tell the truth from the fiction in a short time. Yes, work on this is already been done but maybe not fast enough.

But then again the evil me thinks that someone should make a video... One that is of a certain Donald Trump in a Moscow hotel. With some women. In a bedroom. I'll let you fill in the blanks.

[turbinetree]

22. You are correct in your thoughts on this matter, that why this is so scary

[burrowowl]

15. k&R

[Hoyt]

16. Thanks. I've gotten where I don't trust a lot of stuff from supposed news sources. Unfortunately,

a lot of folks are going to believe what they want to believe.

[turbinetree]

23. Your welcome

And yes they will continue to believe what they want to believe , and that is what is frightening on disregarding objectivity to believe no matter that it may not be true