Title: Combatting Deep Fakes
Speaker: Prof. Hany Farid , University of California, Berkeley, USA
When: 12 October 2022, at 10am PT (1 pm EST, 7pm CEST)
Where: Online (Zoom)
Registration: (free, but required):
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*** Talk Summary ***
In the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President
Zelenskyy warned the world that Russia's digital disinformation
machinery would create a deep fake of him admitting defeat. By mid-March
of 2022, a deep fake of Zelenskyy appeared with just this message. This
video was eventually debunked, but not before it spread across social
media and appeared briefly on Ukrainian television. Three months later,
the mayors of Berlin, Madrid, and Vienna collectively spoke for nearly
30 minutes with a deep-fake version of Kiev Mayor Klitschko, before
realizing they were being duped. In addition to adding jet fuel to
disinformation campaigns, this new breed of synthetic media also makes
it easier to deny reality — the so-called liar's dividend — as seen by
the recent baseless claim that video addresses by President Biden are
deep fakes deployed to conceal his death. I will discuss how deep fakes
are made, how they are being weaponized, and how they can be detected.

*** About the Speaker ***
Dr. Hany Farid is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital
forensics, forensic science, misinformation, image analysis, and human
perception. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and
Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1989, and his
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
Following a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Brain and Cognitive
Sciences at MIT, he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College in 1999
where he remained until 2019. He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan
Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fellow of the
National Academy of Inventors.

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