Malicious use of deepfakes: Risks for Japan’s information and psychological security
https://doi.org/10.24412/2500-2872-2021-3-90-101
Abstract
The rapid development of artificial intelligence has spurred the emergence of a number of new technologies, including the deepfake technology, which allows synthesizing very realistic fake video and audio content. This technology, which appeared quite recently, in 2017, has rapidly advanced in just a few years: fake content has become more realistic, deepfake applications have become cheaper and more accessible, allowing users without special computer qualifications to synthesize fake videos in a matter of seconds. It has resulted in the exponential growth of deepfakes in cyberspace. Opening up fundamentally new opportunities for a whole range of industries (advertising and media, entertainment and games, film industry, medicine, etc.), this technology can also be used by malevolent actors for criminal purposes, for information and psychological attacks on the population, and also for deliberately harming state-to-state relations. The risks of malicious use of deepfakes are as real as the benefits of using them. In a number of countries, deepfake technology is already seen as presenting a variety of challenges to national security and information and psychological security in the years to come. This article provides a general overview of the scale and spheres of deepfake usage, the prospects and already registered cases of the malicious use of deepfake technology in the political sphere, and also assesses the risks of malicious use of this technology for Japan and the risk perception by Tokyo.
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Leksyutina Y.V. Malicious use of deepfakes: Risks for Japan’s information and psychological security. Japanese Studies in Russia. 2021;(3):90-101. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24412/2500-2872-2021-3-90-101
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