Manoj Tiwari has used artificial intelligence techniques to make it look like he said things he didn’t say, news agency Vice reported.
\n\nIn various versions of the campaign videos, Manoj Tiwari is seen to be speaking in English, Bhojpuri and Hindi.
\n\nPolitical communication firm 'The Ideaz Factory' worked alongside BJP to create such videos for positive campaigns, using the same technology used in deep fakes.
\n\nA lip-sync deepfake algorithm was used and trained with speeches of Manoj Tiwari to translate audio sounds into basic mouth shapes.
\n\nAlthough he faced an historical defeat, the use of technology like this is certainly surprising. If this is used more frequently by Indian politicians what impacts do you think it will have? What if this is used to invoke communal violence? Share your thoughts in the comments below.\n
Manoj Tiwari has used artificial intelligence techniques to make it look like he said things he didn’t say, news agency Vice reported.
\n\nIn various versions of the campaign videos, Manoj Tiwari is seen to be speaking in English, Bhojpuri and Hindi.
\n\nPolitical communication firm 'The Ideaz Factory' worked alongside BJP to create such videos for positive campaigns, using the same technology used in deep fakes.
\n\nA lip-sync deepfake algorithm was used and trained with speeches of Manoj Tiwari to translate audio sounds into basic mouth shapes.
\n\nAlthough he faced an historical defeat, the use of technology like this is certainly surprising. If this is used more frequently by Indian politicians what impacts do you think it will have? What if this is used to invoke communal violence? Share your thoughts in the comments below.\n
It may cause mayhem, may ensue pandemonium and may cause widespread untrust of authenticity of videos (I don't know if media would want that). People currently blindly trust videos, and hence the news. If it becomes so easy to doctor videos along with the audio they carry, who's going to watch the plethora of TV news channels and trust the speaker is really saying it all? The TRP could drastically go down and the media kings wouldn't like that when that happens.
\n\nRecently the dude who created Darknet/YOLO announced that he's stopping his CV research citing unethical implications.
", "rawMarkdown": "It may cause mayhem, may ensue pandemonium and may cause widespread untrust of authenticity of videos (I don't know if media would want that). People currently blindly trust videos, and hence the news. If it becomes so easy to doctor videos along with the audio they carry, who's going to watch the plethora of TV news channels and trust the speaker is really saying it all? The TRP could drastically go down and the media kings wouldn't like that when that happens. \n\nRecently the dude who created Darknet/YOLO [announced](https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1230524770350817280) that he's stopping his CV research citing unethical implications.", "votes": null }, { "id": "756555", "postDate": "02/25/2020 20:44:28", "content": "I believe in some (not so) distant future, videos will come with a label saying if the video was deepfaked or not. Or maybe I am dreaming too much? ;)\nJoke aside, (some) politicians have always and will use whatever means necessary to have an edge. The better question is: what regulation should be put in place to avoid such \"tricks\" to happen more often?
", "rawMarkdown": "I believe in some (not so) distant future, videos will come with a label saying if the video was deepfaked or not. Or maybe I am dreaming too much? ;)\nJoke aside, (some) politicians have always and will use whatever means necessary to have an edge. The better question is: what regulation should be put in place to avoid such \"tricks\" to happen more often?", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 754125, "author_name": "mightyrains", "author_url": "", "post_date": "02/23/2020 04:45:03", "content": "It may cause mayhem, may ensue pandemonium and may cause widespread untrust of authenticity of videos (I don't know if media would want that). People currently blindly trust videos, and hence the news. If it becomes so easy to doctor videos along with the audio they carry, who's going to watch the plethora of TV news channels and trust the speaker is really saying it all? The TRP could drastically go down and the media kings wouldn't like that when that happens.
\n\nRecently the dude who created Darknet/YOLO announced that he's stopping his CV research citing unethical implications.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 756555, "author_name": "yassinealouini", "author_url": "", "post_date": "02/25/2020 20:44:28", "content": "I believe in some (not so) distant future, videos will come with a label saying if the video was deepfaked or not. Or maybe I am dreaming too much? ;)\nJoke aside, (some) politicians have always and will use whatever means necessary to have an edge. The better question is: what regulation should be put in place to avoid such \"tricks\" to happen more often?
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