Beyond Deepfakes: Synthetic Moving Images and the Future of History
Abstract:
This paper investigates the role of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the production of synthetic moving images—specifically, how these images could be used in online disinformation campaigns and could profoundly affect historical footage archives. AI-manipulated content, especially moving images, will have an impact far beyond the current information warfare (IW) environment and will bleed into the unconsidered terrain of visual historical archives with unknown consequences. The paper will also consider IW scenarios in which new types of long-term disinformation campaigns may emerge and will conclude with potential verification and containment strategies.
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College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST)
University of Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Williams Cole has been producing, directing, editing, and archival producing documentary films for nearly 25 years. Most recently, he produced Gumbo Coalition with Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple, now streaming on Max. Among his other credits are Sundance premieres Finding Fela and 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film, the HBO film Gun Fight and Rebel Rossa, that premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and was broadcast on RTE and streamed on Amazon Prime. Williams earned a MSc (distinction) at the London School of Economics on a U.S.-UK Fulbright Scholarship and graduated from Columbia University (magna cum laude). He was a founding contributing editor of The Brooklyn Rail, a monthly publication on arts and politics. Recently he completed an AI Strategy Certificate at eCornell and is engaged in the Information Warfare Certificate at University of Arizona.
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Journal of Information Warfare
The definitive publication for the best and latest research and analysis on information warfare, information operations, and cyber crime. Available in traditional hard copy or online.
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