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'Deep fakes' most sinister threat yet to U.S. elections, devastating to democracy
The Washington Times ^ | December 2, 2018 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 12/02/2018 4:48:25 PM PST by jazusamo

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To: jazusamo

That us another reason why people need to be weary of anything you read.

Use judgement to assess any so-called news.


41 posted on 12/02/2018 5:42:16 PM PST by Innovative
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To: jazusamo; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ..

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The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...


42 posted on 12/02/2018 5:43:29 PM PST by null and void (Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
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To: Socon-Econ

The libs used to like the Russians. Until they became a convenient excuse.


43 posted on 12/02/2018 5:44:30 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: jazusamo
This is the ultimate corrosive acid on public trust. Don't trust anything on anybody. Don't believe anything you see. Also, it is the perfect cover to discredit the release of real videos of criminal or coup plotter activities.
44 posted on 12/02/2018 5:46:04 PM PST by Truth29
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To: jazusamo
In other words, they're preparing excuses for the kitty trafficking and pr0n and such.
45 posted on 12/02/2018 5:47:24 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: EinNYC

The 17th Amendment is what is killing the Republic


46 posted on 12/02/2018 5:48:53 PM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: Article10

You misspelled 16th and/or 19th.


47 posted on 12/02/2018 5:55:20 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: jazusamo

Their solution will be to only allow videos on the internet that come from the Washington Post, New York Times, etc.


48 posted on 12/02/2018 5:55:30 PM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: bigbob

There’s some kind of learning algorithm where one system creates fakes and a separate detection system tries to tell fakes from real videos. The fake-creating system improves until the detection system can’t tell them apart.


49 posted on 12/02/2018 5:57:35 PM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: jazusamo

Entrenched bureaucrats in DC and cheaters in the DNC are far greater threats than Russia.


50 posted on 12/02/2018 6:03:04 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: jazusamo

See the latest Tom Clancy novel.


51 posted on 12/02/2018 6:04:10 PM PST by omega4412
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To: All

I agree that this sounds more like an attempt to get out ahead of damaging revelations than any sort of real warning about nefarious Russian activity. The deep state are down to their last card, it would appear — rekindle the fires of anti-communism. There was a good reason for anti-communism but the place to apply that now is ironically with the deep state itself. I fear them a lot more than I fear Putin and his cyber farms.

And if all they are doing is recycling truth into easier to understand packages, then where’s the crime in that?

Enough, deep state, with your attempts to fool the general public, prepare to be forced to face the consequences for your past bad actions. This should be our prayer focus until it is answered.


52 posted on 12/02/2018 6:13:43 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (I taught AOC everything she knows, and it only took five minutes)
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To: jazusamo

This is utter insanity, the likes of which I have never seen or imagined in my lifetime.

Anyone believing this is stupid, an idiot or clinically insane.


53 posted on 12/02/2018 6:15:25 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: jazusamo

These Russians are pathetic. So involved with trying to bring down the USA that their country remains a Mexico with nukes.


54 posted on 12/02/2018 6:15:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: jazusamo
U.S. officials attending a high-level national security forum last week say the technology is the next major threat to American elections and potentially to democracy itself, and analysts say the nefarious possibilities are virtually endless.

The simple solution is to just tell the public that the technology exists to produce high-quality fake audio and video. And that people should not always believe what they see and hear.

That's the simple solution. That's the non Big Government, common sense solution. That's not the solution Big Government will come up with

Beware. They will continue to erode our freedoms.

55 posted on 12/02/2018 6:16:02 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: null and void

Hmmmm


56 posted on 12/02/2018 6:17:10 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Jim Robinson

If Ben’s Asse says we should be afraid of something, it means we should be afraid of what Ben’s Asse wants to do to stop it.


57 posted on 12/02/2018 6:19:44 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: jazusamo
and potentially to democracy itself

The biggest threat to democracy is the universal franchise.

We are not going to survive it.

58 posted on 12/02/2018 6:23:08 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: jazusamo

Maybe Democrats and Republicans need to come together to form a “truth” site. The news media used to be trusted to give the impartial truth, but not anymore. I see lies by many politicians, but people excuse it and say “but did he really say that?” or I don’t believe anything I hear on (name a TV channel) or read in (name a newspaper.) What if people from both ends of the political spectrum jointly announced that something was or was not true. (Like the fake images described in this article.)


59 posted on 12/02/2018 6:31:26 PM PST by Gibbs (Heroic, not Masculine)
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To: Article10

The 19th isn’t helping things, either.


60 posted on 12/02/2018 6:35:10 PM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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