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The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users (theintercept.com)

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The plan, mentioned in a new 76-page wish list by the Department of Defense’s Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, outlines advanced technologies desired for country’s most elite, clandestine military efforts. “Special Operations Forces (SOF) are interested in technologies that can generate convincing online personas for use on social media platforms, social networking sites, and other online content,” the entry reads.

The document specifies that JSOC wants the ability to create online user profiles that “appear to be a unique individual that is recognizable as human but does not exist in the real world,” with each featuring “multiple expressions” and “Government Identification quality photos.”

In addition to still images of faked people, the document notes that “the solution should include facial & background imagery, facial & background video, and audio layers,” and JSOC hopes to be able to generate “selfie video” from these fabricated humans. These videos will feature more than fake people: Each deepfake selfie will come with a matching faked background, “to create a virtual environment undetectable by social media algorithms.”

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[–] finitebanjo 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Pentagon is the least restricted and structured branch of the US Government and I think it needs to be reeled in quite heavily, starting with making them accountable for audits and harshly penalizing them for failing said audits.

[–] P00ptart 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You'd have better luck bioengineering saber-toothed unicorns.

[–] finitebanjo 1 points 2 months ago

Pentagon, if this is your last ditch effort to convince me to maintain your funding, then you're gonna need a lot of bio-unicorn tech bros behind it or youre shit out of luck.