Friday, March 29, 2024

Barack Obama Slams ‘Deepfake’ Technology Used to Alter His Voice [WATCH]

Former president Barack Obama speaks to a gathering of more than 50 mayors and other guests during the North American Climate Summit on December 5, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.
Former president Barack Obama speaks to a gathering of more than 50 mayors and other guests during the North American Climate Summit on December 5, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

*Barack Obama has expressed concern over “deepfake” technology that trolls are using to create videos of him using vile language and making out-of-pocket statements.

As noted by SandraRose, for the past 2 years, AI videos of Obama using inappropriate language have been circulated on the Internet.

Obama addressed the alarming technology before a crowd while in Ottawa, Canada on Friday.

“People can duplicate me speaking and saying anything. And it sounds like me and it looks like I’m saying it — and it’s a complete fabrication,” he said.

Deepfake technology was used recently to alter video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make it appear as if she was slurring her speech.

“You take the face of one person and put it on the body of another,” said Jeff Smith, associate director at the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado Denver.

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“They are manipulated videos that have been edited using deep learning technology,” Smith said.

Two videos in particular show the former president speaking via a voice actor.

via SandraRose:

The first video, published in 2018, shows what appears to be the former president saying “Stay woke bitches” and calling President Trump names. The voice of director Jordan Peele was actually inserted into the first video. The video was created by Peele, Buzzfeed and Monkeypaw Productions to show the dangers of deepfake videos and fake news.

The 2nd video, created by computer scientists at the University of Washington, shows how a neural network was used to create a very realistic-looking video of Obama using existing audio of him speaking.

Buzzfeed said their video took 56 hours and a professional video editor to create in 2018.

“So the good news is it still requires a decent amount of skill, processing power, and time to create a really good ‘deepfake,'” said BuzzFeed’s news-media editor, Craig Silverman in 2018 – before the technology was simplified.

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