Over the past decade, you can’t talk about geopolitics politics or society without understanding that emerging technologies are having a massive impact on the future of geopolitics and politics and society. Nina Schick: Well, like Alex already outlined, my background really is in geopolitics. I think we should kick off with asking: why do you think deep fakes are interesting? She’s advised many global leaders, including Joe Biden and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Secretary General of NATO, on deepfakes. Over the last decade, Nina has gained expertise in geopolitics and emerging technology. Nina’s most recent book ‘Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalpyse’, she talks about the crisis of mis- and disinformation, and warns that AI-generated synthetic media is really the next evolving threat. She is an author and a broadcaster, who specialises in how technology and artificial intelligence are reshaping society today. So with that, I’d like to move over now to introduce you to Nina Schick. Often you find that models that work well on one kind of deep fake don’t generalise to others, and you know compression and things like this can make a very very difficult situation. And I guess one message I really want to hit home today is that this is a really, really, really hard problem. Now, because there’s a huge amount of awareness now surrounding misinformation and disinformation online, it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to detect deep fakes. We also created an audio deep fake for the Copenhagen democracy summit of Donald Trump. Here’s a deep fake of our CEO, transformed into Donald Trump using style transfer. You’ve probably also heard of facial reenactment, where you overlay another person’s expressions over the image in the video. Many types of deepfakes exist: you’ve probably heard of face swapping, where you take someone’s face and swap it for another person’s face. You’ll also probably have heard the term ‘shallow fake’, which refers to more traditional tampering techniques. Now we usually restrict the term ‘deepfake’ to refer to the kind of synthetic media that’s generated through machine learning. And that could be in an image, a video or it could even be in audio. So, what is a deep fake? A deepfake is a type of synthetic media in which an individual’s likeness is changed for that of another. The difference between misinformation and disinformation – and how both can shape society.Īlex Adam: I just want to start by giving a quick intro to what deepfakes are, then Nina is going to be telling us a lot more detail about this in the context of her book.Nina’s background in geopolitics and the events that led to her interest in deepfakes.What follows is an edited transcript of the first part of their conversation, in which we cover: In her recent book “Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse”, she reveals alarming examples of deepfakery and explains the dangerous political consequences of the “Infocalypse”, both in terms of national security and what it means for public trust in politics. Yesterday, Faculty’s Lead Data Scientist Alex Adam sat down with Nina Schick, an investigative journalist who specialises in how technology is reshaping politics in the 21st century.

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