Security Aspects

As seen with all the examples, some could cause a lot of issues. Due to the ability of the technology to almost completely mimic someone, it causes many security issues with people not being able to tell the difference between what is fake and what is real. For example, some of the potential risks of deep fakes are “disinformation, division, fraud, and extortion” (Letzing, 2021). This quote just summarizes some of the potential security risks that come with deep fakes. A simple comparison would be to a more common issue plaguing people currently, like phishing and scam emails, texts, and phone calls. This is similar to deep fakes because people are trying to act and seem like someone or something that they are not really. Both of these technologies try to deceive people for their own gain or even just to cause chaos. Now that the use of this technology for more malicious reasons has increased, many organizations and governments have started to work on ways to be able to differentiate the differences so that they can figure out which video is real and which one is a deep fake. One of the methods to identify videos is forensically; this idea is being worked on by the US Department of Defense. Now Abigail Summerville describes what forensic identification means, and she said, “The idea behind the forensic approach is to look for inconsistencies in pictures and videos that serve as clues to whether the images have been manipulated—for example, inconsistent lighting, shadows, and camera noise.” (Summerville, 2019). Now, based on how the forensic approach works, it can give you a pretty good clue as to how hard it is to identify deep fakes because they have to search for the smallest of details to be able to determine whether it is a deep fake or not. Another method mentioned in Summerville’s article was to geotag videos and pictures so that you’d be able to tell when and where they were taken. While all these methods are good for dealing with issues, it is almost inevitable that some deep fakes will still seep through the cracks. Due to this risk, it is still necessary to find a way that is absolute in being able to identify if it is a deep fake or not because the consequences could be drastic. This is especially true if the videos become more and more realistic; it could cause all sorts of issues.