The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has kicked off a program that will seek out faked video footage that may be used to improperly influence populations, a senior agency official said March 20.
“We have all seen pictures and videos that have been altered. And a lot of that has been done by very advanced photographic video industries,” Dick Urban, special assistant to the DARPA director, said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Science and Engineering Technology conference in Austin, Texas.
Future movies will have animated figures that look and talk and act like real people. There is a a great deal of private investment going into the computer-generated technology, he noted.
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WNU Editor: Fake videos are easy to spot .... at least right now. But it is easy to predict that as technology gets better .... we will not be able to distinguish between real and fake videos. Will DARPA be able to solve this .... we can only hope.
