IntelBrief: The Challenge of Deep Fakes

• Deep fakes are videos that have been digitally altered or manipulated to produce human bodies and/or faces that look and sound authentic.
• With the proliferation of social media and accessible software and technologies, there are many options available to anyone seeking to manipulate videos and images.
• Given the pressure to act and the speed of warfare in the modern era, this means that fake images and videos have real world consequences and contribute to widespread disinformation.
• A combination of technological, regulatory, intelligence, diplomatic, and civil society solutions are essential to even consider mitigating the threat and underlying challenges deep fakes pose to all strands of society.

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