The landing on the moon of the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 was a landmark moment in space history. But what if the astronauts died during the flight to the moon, and US President Richard Nixon (Richard Nixon) had to convey this tragic news to the Americans on television?
In a video published on a special website that looks frighteningly convincing, President Nixon allegedly says that NASA failed and the astronauts died on the moon. Deepfake (lit. - βDeep fakeβ) are falsified videos in which people using AI do something that they have never done. Sometimes such fakes are difficult to distinguish from real videos.
βFate decreed that people who went to the moon to explore the world will stay on the moon to rest in peace,β Mr. Nixon said in a fake video about astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins (Michael Collins).
AI experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spent half a year creating a very convincing 7-minute fake video in which real NASA footage is interspersed with Nixon's fake tragic speech about the failure of the Apollo 11 mission.
To make Nixon's voice and facial movements convincing, artificial intelligence deep learning technology was used. By the way, the voiced tragic speech is real - it was prepared in case of the death of astronauts and .
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the Event of Moon Disaster project to show people what a dangerous effect fake videos can have on an unsuspecting public. βBy creating this alternate history, the project explores the impact and prevalence of disinformation and fake technology in our modern society.β .
In the case of the Event of Moon Disaster, the goal is not only to help people better understand the Deepfake phenomenon, but also to explain how fakes are made, how they work, how to identify them; assess their potential use and abuse, and develop tools to combat counterfeiting and misinformation. This project is supported by a Mozilla Creative Media Awards grant.
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