How the Pentagon is tackling deepfakes as a national security problem
By: Nathan Strout  
Deepfakes are a national security issue, said Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, and the Department of Defense needs to invest heavily in technology that can counter it.
Deepfakes are videos where one person’s face is superficially imposed onto another person’s face to make it look like they said or did things they did not. As deep fake technology becomes more sophisticated and proliferated, the task of verifying that the video is authentic and unaltered becomes endlessly more difficult.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/information-warfare/2019/08/29/how-the-pentagon-is-tackling-deepfakes-as-a-national-security-problem/
