Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279948 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comment No. 52/2023
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
Deception and media manipulation have always been an integral part of wartime propaganda. But never before has it been so easy to create high-quality fabrications of images as well as sound and video recordings. The tendency to react emotionally to these media opens up a whole new possibility for abuse by their creators. A call to surrender by President Volodymyr Zelensky, which was immediately exposed as a deepfake, is the first attempt to use the new technology in an armed conflict. The quality of such fabrications is improving, detecting them is becoming increasingly complex and there is no end in sight to these developments. Banning deepfakes would be futile. It is therefore time to look at current and potential applications and possible counter-strategies.
Subjects: 
Deepfake
Fälschung
media manipulation
disinformation
propaganda
hybrid threats
artificial intelligence
Generative Adversarial Network
GAN
generator
discriminator
deep learning
Special Operations Command
Content-Authenticity-Initiative
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Document Type: 
Research Report

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