{"id":18535,"date":"2022-03-18T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/18\/news-12268\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:10:11","slug":"news-12268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/18\/news-12268\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepfake Zelenskyy video surfaces on compromised websites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 15:04:56 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a long time coming. The worry over deepfake technology being used during times of major upheaval has been alluded to frequently over the last couple of years. The buildup to the US election was peppered by \u201cany moment now\u2026\u201d style warnings of dramatic and plausible deepfake deployment. In the end, what we got was very little to write home about<\/a>. Terrible renderings promoted as \u201clook what they can do\u201d declarations failed to impress.<\/p>\n

The current situation in Ukraine was inevitably going to lead to some form of deepfake activity. The only real questions were \u201cwhen?\u201d, and \u201chow bad will they be?\u201d As a matter of fact, deepfake activity began immediately. After the usual breathless punditry warning about what could happen, the \u201cbest\u201d mock-up example from February 23 was a frankly terrible clip<\/a> of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Just how deep is this fake, anyway?<\/h2>\n

There were plenty of warnings about deepfakes too, but the reports were perhaps a little over the top. \u201cRussia is using deepfakes to spread misinformation against Ukraine, claims report\u201d. Well, that definitely sounds bad<\/a>. But how were those deepfakes spreading it?<\/p>\n

The fake in question wasn\u2019t sophisticated video or audio, which is what people reading across several sources may have believed. What actually happened was that an account spreading misinformation used a fake profile picture, the likes of which you can generate yourself, endlessly, here<\/a>. I\u2019d argue that the misinformation pushed would be exactly the same regardless of whether the profile used an AI-generated avatar, or the creator simply stole an image from somewhere else. How much does the profile picture really matter in this example?<\/p>\n

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Quick thread:<\/p>\n

I want you all to meet Vladimir Bondarenko.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a blogger from Kiev who really hates the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n

He also doesn\u2019t exist, according to Facebook.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s an invention of a Russian troll farm targeting Ukraine. His face was made by AI. pic.twitter.com\/uWslj1Xnx3<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n