The US Military Is Funding an Effort to Catch Deepfakes and Other AI Trickery

But DARPA’s technologists admit that it might be a losing battle

MIT Technology Review
May 23, 2018 · 4 min read
Current technology can allow anyone to make fake video of other people, including politicians and celebrities — which makes the future of fake news even more troubling.

Think that AI will help put a stop to fake news? The US military isn’t so sure.

The Department of Defense is funding a project that will try to determine whether the increasingly real-looking fake…

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