Hany farid biography of nancy

  • Hany Farid was interviewed for an article in the Washington Post titled “Faked Pelosi videos, slowed to make her appear drunk, spread across social media.” A.
  • Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
  • APPOINTMENTS.

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    Preet Bharara:              From CAFE, welcome to Stay Tuned. I’m Preet Bharara.

    Hany Farid:                   It’s fake news fryst vatten becoming a mantra and that in some ways is the real danger here that we are getting into where we simply are going to struggle to believe what we see, hear, and read online and I don’t know how you have a democracy in that situation.

    Preet Bharara:              That’s Hay Farid. He’s a professor at the University of California Berkeley and an expert in Digital Forensics. Farid stumbled onto the field of computer science while he was in college and quickly rose to be one of the leading analysts tackling the tricky world of image, audio, and video manipulation. In the last few years, a new iteration of his fakery has come onto the scene. You might recognize the term deep fakes, which refers to a computerized algorithm that can man people say and do things that they’ve never actually said or done.

    Preet Bharara

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    A doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in which she appears to be impaired, made the rounds on social media this week, picking up more than 2.5 million views on Facebook and demonstrating the power of what's called "deepfakes."

    Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at the University of California Berkeley, told CBS News' Jeff Pegues that this film is just the tip of the iceberg of how videos and images can be manipulated.

    "The video is really a pretty low tech fake," Farid said. "Most standard one is to take an image or a video of a person, candidate a president, and alter it to make it look like they are saying something that they never said."

    The use of altered videos has led U.S. intelligence officials to issue a warning ahead of the 2020 elections. This year's Worldwide Threat Assessment said "adversaries and strategic competitors would likely attempt to use deepfakes" to influence campaigns in the U.S. but they could also be used for other nefarious reasons.

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    The Rise Of Deepfakes: Things Are Not What They Appear To Be

    With Meghna Chakrabarti

    Those doctored videos of Nancy Pelosi and Mark Zuckerberg highlight the growing threat of deepfake technology. It’s getting harder to know what’s real and what isn't. How can they be stopped?

    Guests

    Hany Farid, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. (@UCBerkeley)

    Aviv Ovadya, founder of the Thoughtful Technology Project. Non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy. Former chief technologist at the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Media Responsibility. (@metaviv)

    Rep. Yvette Clarke, Democratic congresswoman representing New York’s 9th District. She’s introduced a bill that would attempt to combat the spread of disinformation through restrictions on deepfake video technology. (@RepYvetteClarke)

    From The Reading List

    Washington Post: "Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake

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