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If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time deep fake technology has been used to carry out a disinformation attack on politicians.

I wonder if the actual video conferences have been recorded. I'm very curious to see them.

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There is a screenshot: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/kamerleden-verg...

Thanks, here's a direct link to avoid paywall: https://0x0.st/-mQu.jpeg

0x0 is a really useful website.

Yep, this is in my ~/.bash_aliases :

  #### Upload file to 0x0.st (The Null Pointer) - A filehosting service.
  # Usage: nullpointer_upload <file>
  nullpointer_upload () { curl -F "file=@$1" https://0x0.st ;}

Ah, amazing, thanks! I didn’t even notice the paywall, odd.

It's the first time they actually did it and got caught. The article specifically mentioned the same actor has been in contact with politicians from Estonia, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom.

Right, I was referring to this attack as a whole.

I'm guessing that they used the excuse of a bad video connection to make them almost get away with this.

Have you been following open source deepfake technology? Recent models are convincingly realistic in 640x360 (the default zoom resolution)

I was mystified by a series of videos of rather serious politicians singling ridiculous songs, then found the clips were generated in Wombo.app.

It’s a funny little gimmick, but it had me questioning things I’ve previously seen and thought real.

https://www.wombo.ai/

Do you mind sharing some links? I’d love to see the most recent versions

In a parallel comment[1]. I wouldn't know it is a deepfake.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924229

This could mean that video calls can be compressed more aggressively. I.e., just send someone's face once, and then send posture and facial expression parameters for the remainder of the session.

That's a great idea. You could have low latency, high def, high FPS video convos. Couldn't someone launch a plausible competitor to Zoom doing this? I'd certainly prefer that service.

Nvidia is working on it already. https://developer.nvidia.com/maxine

The downside is that we will lose our #1 reason for having symmetric upload/download speeds in residential areas.

It's happened a couple of times that pranksters have managed to make calls to government figures.

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