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<div class="">Next week the MIT Museum will be presenting a program on “Deep Fakes” and AI. This video was originally released in Amsterdam last fall by the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality. You may have seen clips or other articles including the promise
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<font class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;">At In Event of Moon Disaster - Live Screening and Q&A, the live stream of the <strike class="">art installation</strike> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"><font class="">short,
seven minute film of a speech by Richard Nixon he never actually made.</font></span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"><font class="">U</font></span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"><font class="">sing
deep fake techniques</font></span><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">“In Event of Moon Disaster” </span><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">will
empower and educate the public on how to discern reality from deepfakes on their own. The piece is designed by a collaborative of artists and computer scientists and directed by Francesca Panetta along with co-director Halsey Burgund.</span></font></div>
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<font class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;">In “In Event of Moon Disaster,” the team has reimagined the story of the moon landing. In a telecast, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"><font class="">President</font></span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"> Nixon
reads a contingency speech written for him by his speech writer, Bill Safire, “in event of moon disaster” which he was to read if the Apollo 11 astronauts had not been able to return to Earth. In this, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"><font class="">faked
news reel</font></span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"> Richard Nixon </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"><font class="">is
seen reading</font></span></font><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-color: white;"><font class=""> this speech from the Oval Office.</font><font color="#222222" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">To recreate this moving elegy that never happened, the team used deep learning techniques such as synthetic speech working and video
dialogue replacement techniques. The resulting video is highly believable, highlighting the possibilities of deepfake technology today.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">"Our goal was to use the most advanced artificial intelligence techniques available today to create the most believable result possible
— and then point to it and say, ‘This is fake; here’s how we did it; and here’s why we did it,’” says Halsey Burgund.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">July 20, 2020</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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