Combating and mitigating deepfakes and shallowfakes
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 8:05 am
In the political sphere, the pressure to block new techniques is even greater, especially during election periods – a time when their use tends to increase and cause huge impacts. In the United States, for example, a video of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was edited to make the congresswoman appear drunk during one of her speeches. The video went viral on social media and had more than 6.3 million views. Another well-known case is that of US Senator Bernie Sanders, in which he appears in a video introducing himself as one of the candidates on the program America's Got Talent. Both videos represent a blow to the image and reputation of politicians, and could be responsible for defining their careers.
In this way, elections can suffer drastically based on this type of viral content. Sharing these videos as if they were real can have an irreversible impact on public opinion. First, because their well-crafted japan mobile database constructions can easily confuse ordinary citizens, leading them to believe that the video is real. Second, even if a video expert can deny the content of the video, proving it to be false, this information may not reach everyone, mainly because this type of content never goes viral to the same extent as fake content.
Voters with already formed opinions can use a deepfake to attack the opposition candidate and thus create a completely negative image of him/her, influencing other voters. And, just like with fake news, deepfake videos can become commonplace, causing doubts about genuine material under the widespread claim that everything could be fake.
In Brazil, a country already immersed in the spread of fake news, the use of these devices can cause unprecedented damage. This year, the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) will focus on evaluating and punishing those responsible for the dissemination of fake news in 2018 and will seek to improve legislation to prevent this process from being repeated in the next elections. Despite this, it is unlikely that the 2020 elections will be able to pass unscathed by the creation of deepfakes and shallowfakes.
In this way, elections can suffer drastically based on this type of viral content. Sharing these videos as if they were real can have an irreversible impact on public opinion. First, because their well-crafted japan mobile database constructions can easily confuse ordinary citizens, leading them to believe that the video is real. Second, even if a video expert can deny the content of the video, proving it to be false, this information may not reach everyone, mainly because this type of content never goes viral to the same extent as fake content.
Voters with already formed opinions can use a deepfake to attack the opposition candidate and thus create a completely negative image of him/her, influencing other voters. And, just like with fake news, deepfake videos can become commonplace, causing doubts about genuine material under the widespread claim that everything could be fake.
In Brazil, a country already immersed in the spread of fake news, the use of these devices can cause unprecedented damage. This year, the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) will focus on evaluating and punishing those responsible for the dissemination of fake news in 2018 and will seek to improve legislation to prevent this process from being repeated in the next elections. Despite this, it is unlikely that the 2020 elections will be able to pass unscathed by the creation of deepfakes and shallowfakes.