“I request you to lay down your weapons and go again to your family members,” he appeared to say in Ukrainian in the clip, which was immediately discovered as a deepfake. “This war is not value dying for. I recommend you to continue to keep on living, and I am going to do the same.”
You may never have heard the term “synthetic media”— more commonly known as “deepfakes”— but our military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies certainly have. They are hyper-realistic video and audio recordings that use artificial intelligence and “deep” learning to create “fake” content or “deepfakes.” The U.S. government has grown increasingly concerned about their potential to