Delhi : Col. Inderjeet Singh, Cyber Security Expert, Director General, Cyber Security Association of India explains how Deepfake is emerging as a dark side of Artificial Intelligence. And yes, quite an insidious one!. The amount of Deepfake content online is growing at a rapid rate. According to a report from startup Deeptrace, at the beginning of 2019, there were 7,964 Deepfake videos online and just nine months later this figure had jumped to 14,678. It has no doubt continued to balloon since then.
The blend of “deeplearning” and “fake”, Deepfakes are super-realistic videos that are digitally manipulated to portray an individual saying and doing things that actually never happened. Deepfakes depend upon neural networks that analyze huge datasets to learn imitation of a person’s facial expressions, behaviorism, voice, and sounds.
Deepfake marks social media platforms first because of rumors, conspiracies, and misinformation circulated very easily there and users favor to go with the crowd. The bad news is that not only companies, corporations, and celebrities should be wary but ordinary people as well.
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Col. Inderjeet further explains that imagine, for example, that you receive a video call from a colleague asking for details about a top-secret product your team is working on. What if the call turns out to be a Deepfake initiated by your competitor? It would totally break down whatever competitive advantage you were hoping to get from the launch of the new product. Not to mention that the revelation could place your career in jeopardy.
On the one hand, artificial intelligence can provide many benefits for many areas of our lives. On the other hand, it can spawn totally new, dangerous things like Deepfakes. All these require new ways to fight against AI cybercrime.
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Fighting Deepfake has been announced worldwide. I think governments around the world should intervene hard: banning the development of the technology, recruiting all the people who know about this stuff to alter the software so that there are tells and tricks to understanding the video’s and discovering who made them.
If the technology seeps through the sieves set up to slow/stop, it tactically as a matter of policy an independent source should record all major debates and where a Deepfake is detected with the help of social media and internet companies delete the video, imprison the author and replace it with the real video.
Deepfakes can currently be detected through analysis using various methods. Sometimes using AI to “combat” the AI that created it. Advice for dealing with Deepfakes by Col. Inderjeet includes:-
You can follow Col. Inderjeet on twitter: @inderbarara
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