According to a purchasing agreement, the United States Special Operations Command is looking for businesses to assist in creating fake computer users that are invisible to both people and computers.
According to a request from Joint Special Operations Command,” Special Operations Forces ( SOF ) are interested in technologies that can create convincing online personas for use on social media platforms, social networking sites, and other online content.” The list adds,” The solution may include physical &, background imagery, visual &, background video, and sound layers”.
According to the Joint Special Operations Command record, the Pentagon wants to be able to create online information that “appear to be a distinct individual that is recognized as people but does not exist in the real world.” The list noted that each profile would contain “multiple expressions”,” Government Identification quality photos”, and may include a generated” picture video” of the false profile.
The algorithmic technology, according to the Joint Special Operations Command record, do” create a virtual environment invisible by cultural media algorithms.”
According to the wishlist for Special Operations Forces, they had “use this ability to obtain information from common online forums.”
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According to The Intercept, Special Operations Command recently showed attention last year in using video “deepfakes” for “influence businesses, modern fraud, contact disturbance, and propaganda campaigns”. The outlet claimed that a large database of information can be used to create deepfakes by creating software that can both understand and restore human features.
Next year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , warned , that” chemical advertising, such as deepfakes, provide a growing concern for all people of modern technologies and contacts”. The widespread use of deepfake technology was a” top risk,” according to the U.S. intelligence agencies.
Daniel Byman, a member of the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board, warned that by using technology that the U. S. government has warned against and which could deceive the American public,” there is a legitimate concern that the U. S. will be seen as hypocritical”. Byman added,” I’m also concerned about the impact on domestic trust , in government — will segments of the U. S. people, in general, become more suspicious of information from the government”?