“Deep Fake”: The scary underground world of the Internet

Imagine in November 2020, just a few days before the US Presidential election, early voting was being conducted in some states, suddenly there was a video spread on social media. In the video, one candidate revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer.

“My illness is too heavy to lead. Please do not vote for me, “the candidate said in the video.

Quick video was discovered to be a deceptive product from a technology called Deepfake.

Video is fake, but the effect it brings is not fake at all. It may be the end of the political career of this “bad” candidate.

What is Deepfake?

“Imagine this for a second: A person can have total control over the billions of stolen data of everyone. All their secrets, their lives, their future. I owe it to Specter. Specter showed me that anyone who controls data, can control the future, ”Mark Zuckerberg said in a video posted on Instagram from @bill_postftimeuk account.

The whole world was stunned by these statements. All dare not think, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s boss with many billion users can dare to speak out the content.

Very soon after that, it was discovered that this only Mark Zuckerberg forged was created by Deepfake technology. And the video is just an advertising product of an exhibition called “Specter”, located in the Sheffield Doc Fest documentary festival festival in the UK.

Deepfake is a concept that is not too new. But when the “boss” of social network Mark Zuckerberg fell victim to this technology, people were startled to wonder what Deepfake is?

In December 2017, the technology was widely known when a user on Reddit called “Deepfakes” released a tool using artificial intelligence (AI) to swap the faces of celebrities. in porn movies. Scarlett Johansson and Gal Gadot have become “reluctant” actors of these films.

Basically, Deepfake allows to assign a person’s face to another person in the video with high accuracy. Deepfake is built on Google’s open source Machine learning platform. It scans a person’s videos and portraits, merges it with a separate video thanks to AI artificial intelligence technology and replaces face details like eyes and mouth …

And if you still don’t understand how Deepfake works, see the video below. This video has just been uploaded on the YouTube channel of Eating Things With Famous People account. In the video, the character Jon Snow, played by actor Kit Harington, apologized because the 8 Game of Thrones had an ending to take away the audience’s time. Or apologize for the “impolite” appearance of Starbucks coffee.

Jon Snow “fake” apologizes for the ending of Part 8 Game of Thrones (Video: Eating Things With Famous People)

Of course the video is fake, but please don’t be surprised if there are many people who believe it is true if you just take a quick look at the honesty Deepfake brings in every image.

Deepfake can make the Mona Lisa “alive”!

When the social media is still struggling in the fight for fake news. Deepfake has put this war on a new scale of its challenge.

It has been around for more than a year, but Deepfake is now able to create fake videos with incredible accuracy.

According to HuffPost, Cambridge-based companies like Modulate.ai can create someone’s voice with just a few minutes of recording.

In a recent report published from Moscow AI Samsung Center, the researchers here said it is possible to create highly accurate Deepfake images on the basis of a set of image data. The image is relatively small. It can even be done with a single image.

“Even” Mona Lisa “can be created that looks like she’s alive,” the report said.

More worrisome, HuffPost said there is no need for experts equipped with AI knowledge or machine learning, ordinary people with a bit of video editing skills, through free online applications for Deepfake Can also create simple works. And as the tools improve over time, the Deepfake videos created will become increasingly higher quality.

Deepfake’s development is like an arms race – Edward Delp

Edward Delp, Director of the Laboratory for Video and Image Processing at Purdue University, said the ease and speed of being able to create Deepfake videos today is alarming.

“It’s really scary. It’s like an arms race, ”said Edward Delp, emphasizing the development of Deepfake technology.

Is there something wrong with Nancy Pelosi?

If someone is still skeptical about the danger that Deepfake is, ask Rudy Giuliani, US President Donald Trump’s own lawyer.

At the end of last May, Rudy Giuliani shared a video on social media about US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In his share, Rudy Giuliani wrote “What is Nancy Pelosi? Her speech seemed strange. Mr. Trump’s own lawyer is right to write these things when the President speaks slowly in the video that looks “drunk”.

An expert character like Rudy Giuliani also “tricked” Deepfake

Song eventually Rudy Giuliani discovered what he did was “foolish” because the video was edited. Here, Nancy Pelosi’s speech rate seems to slow down to make her feel unwell when speaking. Rudy Giuliani had to delete his tweet and send an apology.

Not only in the US, Deepfake has been covering the world with shadows.

Last year in Central Africa, a fake health video of President Gabon, Ali Bongo was seen as a trigger for an unsuccessful military coup in the country.

In Malaysia, a video of a man who confessed to having a homosexual relationship with a high-ranking government official is making waves in the country. There are many opinions that the male body in the video is said to be unlike the real life.

Politicians are not the only victims of Deepfake. Actress Scarlett Johansson is the one who understands this most. With glamorous beauty, Hollywood’s highest paid actress in 2018 is a casual victim of Deepfake, when a series of porn videos are inserted with Scarlett Johansson’s face appearing abundantly with millions of views.

Scarlett Johansson “surrendered” to the fight against fake videos (Photo: Washington Post)

Talking about the fight against Deepfake, Scarlett Johansson said trying to remove all fake adult videos is impossible.

“Nothing can prevent bad guys from collating my or anyone else’s image into someone’s body. The fact proves that trying to protect yourself from the Internet and the depravedness on it is impossible. The Internet is a huge black hole swallowing itself, “Scarlett Johansson said on the Washington Post.

In the article entitled “Everyone can become a potential target,” the Washington Post stressed that any of us could become Deepfake’s target.

This newspaper reported a case of a woman who had a fire when she found herself appearing in a pornographic video. According to the investigation, this video was created on the platform of 491 Facebook photos of this woman herself.

More frightening, this video was created when bad guys hired people to make them on a forum for only $ 20.

Must act before it’s too late!

On June 13, during a hearing before the US House of Representatives on Deepfake, Democratic representative Adam Schiff warned that the technology could have serious consequences in the US presidential election. 2020.

“It is now time for social media companies to come up with policies to protect users from misinformation coming from Deepfake. Need to act early, otherwise it will be too late, “said Adam Schiff.

For the bad guys, Deepfake is becoming effective for carrying out evil intentions

In the same view with Mr. Adam Schiff, Hany Farid also earlier confirmed that social networking platforms are responsible for controlling fake videos because they are the amplifiers of false information.

But if you look in reality, the fight against fake videos is still a long way.

Take a look at what social networking platforms have done with fake videos.

According to Huffpost, with the fake video related to Nancy Pelosi, YouTube said it would delete these videos, but many days later, a series of copies are still circulating.

Meanwhile, according to CNN, Twitter refused to delete or even comment on the video. Similarly, Facebook also refuses to delete videos, even if there is a formal response to fraud.

“We think it’s important for everyone to make their own smart choices about what to believe,” said Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management at Facebook, with host Anderson Cooper. of CNN about fake videos.

In response, Anderson Cooper asked the question, does Facebook remove fake videos related to President Trump, but Monika Bickert did not directly go into the matter but replied: “Facebook does not do business in the field of news, but doing business on social networks ”.

Last year, Pornhub joined many partners such as Reddit and Twitter in preventing pornographic Deepfake videos, but so far has not shown real effectiveness.

Initially, Deepfake was simply a funny joke on the Internet with a series of inventions, face Nicolas Cage on Luis Lane journalist in Superman . But now, it has become a great danger for those who carry out their evil intentions.

With Deepfake, the boundary between bad and good is extremely fragile (Photo: Techhnews)

In Narcos, the film is about drug lord Pablo Escobar, Agent Murphy says what he learned in Colombia is the boundary between bad and extremely good. So is Deepfake.

Before legislatures, technology companies or social networking platforms find a way to stop Deepfake, wish you didn’t fall victim to this technology by some bad person.

Source : VTV