Chris Boyd

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The Answer to Preswerx a display that has on The Business Social Network LinkedIn in the last month, been disappointing so far

A consulting company, the power business-training-videos is advertising for a "deep fake expert" to create a new generation of moderators.

Until Now , the vast majority of deep fake videos were graphic porn, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to edit the existing footage so that the players take on the facial features, especially celebrities without their knowledge, though increasingly the use of much more sophisticated whole-body synthesis.

The technology is also used to politicians seem to say things that couldn't convince people to vote for you.

But the advice, Preswerx, sees it playing a much, much more boring Role - on-the-job.

video editing

"It has not been really used in a business environment," says boss Joshua Harden.

"sitting With me 80 hours in front of a camera to record 1,000 + videos is not a great use of my Time . "

deep fake moderators can see The Answer - But The Answer to Preswerx a display that has on The Business Social Network LinkedIn in the last month, so far, disappointing.

"We had two applicants who had experience with video editing, But no deep fake know-how, and when we replied you this asked to contribute, neither," Mr Harden.

"It is very difficult to find such people.

"either the people are there not-so-good things about The Internet , or use it in research projects at universities. "

'Good

Harden'But , Lord, retains his vision of a new generation of deep fake moderators so misleading, you could pass for real.

"We would give completely the price," he says, "But as the punch line. "

"Our videos are usually good - it is how we build our business.

"If we were to say the same thing, and do it at the end, it was computer-rendered, there would be the people out bubbles. "

Supasorn Suwajanakorn recognized, which are not connected in a Ted talk about creating a fake President, Barack Obama , the reaction was mixed

deep fakes traditional with a good choice of career.

If Supasorn Suwajanakorn, together with some colleagues from the University of Washington, created a deep fake-President Barack Obama , back in 2017, he noted a considerable margin.

And his proposal, you could use the technology to historical figures back to life to teach children, excited far less attention than its potential for mischief, Chaos, and disinformation.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg 's deep fake politician said a "big challenge" for the industry.

And in this year of its platform.

Twitter, meanwhile, had in the year 2018.

Trick employees

But the danger of the technology, The Business world is equally disturbing.

scammers have long been used, E-Mails, purporting to come from a chief executive to trick employees into sending money or tax information.

How much more convincing it would be, if it's audio or video, The Chief executive can speak directly with a member of staff?

"AI-generated audio could not be a real problem, to relieve if The Company about the steps in place," says Chris Boyd , an intelligence analyst at security firm Malwarebytes.

"It was a case of CEO with simulated audio, But The Victim realized after the second or third call that it was a fake. "

Financial loss

pointed out, rogue employee failure of the technology could also need.

"Unfortunately, there's not much anyone can do now, to prevent that someone, perhaps a disgruntled former employee creating a fake video and post it on The Internet ," he wrote.

"For example, a video could be your company CEO announces a huge financial loss, or maybe a termination of The Business line.

"Such an announcement could courses a significant impact on the shares. "

'increase the diversity'

deep fake people are already populating company websites.

AI start-ups are selling images of computer-generated faces, offers companies the opportunity to "greater diversity" in your marketing, without the need for human beings.

Icons8, which sells stock photographs, has the ability to create up to a million ", various models on-demand" every day and allows customers to download up to 10,000 USD for $100 (£76) a month.

CEO Ivan brown says it already has deep fake faces University researchers delivered jeans advertising partner, a gaming company and a dating Website.

"noses are the easiest to create, while hair is The Most difficult, because, as the styles vary," Mr brown says. To feed

his AI algorithm, The Company has tens of thousands of photographs of 70 real faces around The World in a controlled environment with similar lighting and angle.

For each face, a minimum of 10 deep fake ones that can be created and filtered according to age, ethnicity, hair length and emotion, Mr brown says.

Although, the AI is far from infallible.

"We've had lots of bad results of creepy-just a piece of meat sticking out of someone's ear," Mr brown told Bbc News .

Icons8 AI is far>Away from being infallible

"The technician is here, and we will see a lot of good and bad, so the manufacturer must be responsible for how we use it," he says.

The ease with which deep fake people can be created, is also worrying is professor in the ethics of AI for Sandra Wachter.

"is what tells us in a constant state of doubt for everything we see and hear - and recognition is always a catch-up game," Bbc News .

"We, stronger deterrence, if these AI techniques and technologies to be abused. "

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Source of news: bbc.com