President Nixon Never Actually Gave This Apollo 11 Disaster…
This is impressive and, as the quality goes up and the computing + expertise needed to produce these goes down, we’re going to enter an even stranger phase of “fake news” and an alternate facts.
A new MIT film installation uses that exact premise to shed light on so-called deepfake videos and how they are used to spread misinformation. Deepfakes use artificial intelligence technologies to create or alter a video to make them untrue in some way. MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality created a video of Nixon giving a speech that was actually written for him — but that he never ended up delivering. The video is the centerpiece of “In Event of Moon Disaster,” opening Friday at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The installation was supported by the Mozilla Foundation and the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/11/22/mit-nixon-deep-fake