Hany Farid, a professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks with
Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic and Evelyn Douek about deep fakes—realistic AI-generated content in which a person’s likeness is altered to show them doing or saying something they never did or said. They discuss the danger posed by deep fakes, whether the danger stems primarily from the technology itself or the way platforms amplify the content, and what the tech industry response should look like.
Authors
Hany Farid
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
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Podcast: Hany Farid on deep fakes, doctored photos, and disinformation
July 24, 2020