{"id":67760,"date":"2019-07-22T09:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67760"},"modified":"2019-07-22T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:33:19","slug":"the-coming-deepfakes-threat-to-businesses-waddell-kingson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/07\/22\/the-coming-deepfakes-threat-to-businesses-waddell-kingson\/","title":{"rendered":"The coming deepfakes threat to businesses [Waddell &#038; Kingson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/the-coming-deepfakes-threat-to-businesses-308432e8-f1d8-465e-b628-07498a7c1e2a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The coming deepfakes threat to businesses<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from axios.com by Kaveh Waddell and Jennifer Kingson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\">In the first signs of a mounting threat, criminals are starting to use deepfakes \u2014 starting with AI-generated audio \u2014 to impersonate CEOs and steal millions from companies, which are largely unprepared to combat them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong>\u00a0Nightmare scenarios abound. As deepfakes grow more sophisticated, a convincing forgery could send a company&#8217;s stock plummeting (or soaring), to extract money or to ruin its reputation in a viral instant.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">Imagine a convincing fake video or audio clip of Elon Musk, say, disclosing a massive defect the day before a big Tesla launch \u2014 the company&#8217;s share price would crumple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"hidden-308432e8-f1d8-465e-b628-07498a7c1e2a\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>What&#8217;s happening:<\/strong>\u00a0For\u00a0<a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/gavin-newsom-facebook-nancy-pelosi-video-axios-on-hbo-64627531-15b2-4ecf-a656-717af218efd3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all the talk<\/a>\u00a0about fake videos, it&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/deepfake-audio-ai-impersonators-f736a8fc-162e-47f0-a582-e5eb8b8262ff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deepfake\u00a0<em>audio<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that has emerged as the first real threat to the private sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC&#8230;along these same lines see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bernardmarr\/2019\/06\/21\/meet-hemingway-the-artificial-intelligence-robot-that-can-copy-your-handwriting\/#1b0266884dab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Meet Hemingway: The Artificial Intelligence Robot That Can Copy Your Handwriting<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from forbes.com by Bernard Marr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coming deepfakes threat to businesses &#8212; from axios.com by Kaveh Waddell and Jennifer Kingson Excerpt: In the first signs of a mounting threat, criminals are starting to use deepfakes \u2014 starting with AI-generated audio \u2014 to impersonate CEOs and steal millions from companies, which are largely unprepared to combat them. Why it matters:\u00a0Nightmare scenarios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,112,8,9,210,403,500,825,285,480,454,195,321,367,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-corporate-business-world","category-digital-audio","category-digital-video","category-emerging-technologies","category-ethics","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67760"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67765,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67760\/revisions\/67765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}