The intelligence community should assess how foreign governments could use so-called “deepfake” technology to harm U.S. national security interests, a bipartisan trio of lawmakers says. Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., and Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., wrote to the director of national intelligence Thursday, asking about technologies federal agencies or private companies could use to combat use of the content. Examples of it — including doctored videos involving famous people — have caught the public’s attention recently. “You have repeatedly raised the alarm about disinformation campaigns in our elections and other efforts to exacerbate political and social divisions in our society to weaken our nation,” the lawmakers wrote toDirector of National Intelligence Dan Coats. “We are deeply concerned that deep fake technology could soon be deployed by malicious foreign actors.” The rise of increasingly realistic deepfakes — video, audio, and images fueled by machine-learning algorithms and other tools — has prompted a conversation […]
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