(CBN) – Fake videos and disinformation known as deep fakes is a growing threat. Now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is spearheading the detection of those deep fakes. “When you look at an image or a video online, can you tell if it’s been manipulated or not?” That’s the central question posed by Dr. Matt Turek, the program manager for the Media Forensics program at DARPA. Faking
pictures is not new, a portrait painter in 1865 stuck Abraham Lincoln’s head on a southern Civil War politician’s body. A famous 1902 image of former General of the US Army and later President Ulysses S. Grant is actually a composite of three other photographs. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s army of photo-retouchers removed an official from an image after the official was executed in the 1930s. But in the span of just a few years, technology has harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to create and manipulate new worlds and new faces. READ MORE
