Lecture | September 28 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Hany Farid
Fall 2022 Trustworthy Information Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy
We are awash in disinformation consisting of lies, conspiracies, and general nonsense, all with real-world implications ranging from human-rights violations to threats to our democracy and global public health. Adding to this disinformation landscape is a new form of manipulated media â so-called deepfakes.
Although varied in their form and creation, âdeepfakesâ refer to text, image, audio, or video that has been automatically synthesized by a machine-learning system. Deepfakes add to a long line of techniques for manipulating reality, but their introduction poses new risks because of the democratized access to what would have historically been the purview of Hollywood-style studios.
I will discuss the online disinformation landscape and what interventions are available. I will also provide an overview of how deepfakes are created, how they are being used and misused, and if and how they can be perceptually and forensically distinguished from reality.
This lecture will also be live streamed via Zoom.
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510-642-1464
Catherine Cronquist Browning, catherine@ischool.berkeley.edu,
