The Tom Cruise deepfakes were hard to create. But less sophisticated shallowfakes are already wreaking havoc
The Tom Cruise deepfakes were hard to create. But less sophisticated shallowfakes are already wreaking havoc
Tyler SonnemakerApr 2, 2021, 03:58 IST
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But less sophisticated shallowfakes and other synthetic media are already creating havoc.
DARPA s
AI experts mapped out how hard it would be to create these emerging types of fake media.
The coiffed hair, the squint, the jaw clench, and even the signature cackle - it all looks and sounds virtually indistinguishable from the real
Tom Cruise.
But the uncanny lookalikes that went viral on TikTok last month under the handle @deeptomcruise were
Deepfakes seem to tap into a really visceral part of people s minds, Henry Ajder, a UK-based deepfakes expert, told Insider. When you watch that Tom Cruise deepfake, you don t need an analogy because you re seeing it with your own two eyes and you re being kind of fooled even though you know it s not real, he said. Being fooled is a very intimate experience. And if someone is fooled by a deepfake, it makes them sit up and pay attention.
The good news: it s really hard to make such a convincing deepfake. It took Ume two months to train the AI-powered tool that generated the deepfakes, 24 hours to edit each minute-long video, and a talented human impersonator to mimic the hair, body shape, mannerisms, and voice, according to The New York Times.
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Dear DARPA: Profit is not a dirty word
I’ve spent an entire career writing about the government and there are still many things I don t know or understand.
At the top of that list is the government’s concern with the profits of its contractors. Government officials will talk about the need for a healthy and profitable private sector, along with how the private sector needs to be incentivized to bring innovation into the market.
That makes sense to me and I agree with that.
But the government seems to not want companies to make too much profit and that is where the logic starts to fall apart for me. That’s how I felt when I read through a recent DARPA solicitation.
DARPA Selects SRI Team to Develop Hardware Chip for Processing Encrypted Data Our Bureau 1100
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded SRI International research institute $11.5 million to develop a new hardware accelerator chip to support fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).
With current data encryption strategies, data has to be decrypted before processing, which presents security and privacy concerns. FHE enables computations to be performed on encrypted data rather than rather than clear plaintext.
However, FHE-based computations involve “noise” that accumulates with each computation, that may ultimately render the encrypted result of the computations un-decryptable. Solving the problem will require a new type of accelerator CPU architecture and supporting software to speed up processing time which will reduce overhead and control the noise.