Fake videos appeared on the Internet with overlapping faces and voices of famous people with the help of which scammers steal funds. IT company JET warned Russians about this.
"A relatively new phenomenon deep fake has appeared on the network, it is fake videos with overlapping faces and voices of famous people on videos of various contents using Deep Learning technologies. This technology allows you to replace the movement of the lips and human speech on the video. It is difficult for an ordinary user to identify such fakes, and many take them for the truth," the company said.
Experts of the company found in the network fraudulent video using the image of the Russian showman and actor Dmitry Nagiyev, where he offers to visit a certain site and get a prize or cash reward. The company said that site visitors may lose money.
The company JET noted that the victims got to the portal with the generated domain name. Such sites only work for a couple of days, but criminals constantly open new ones.
According to Anna Oleinikova, an expert on neural networks in the company JET, deep fake is an extremely serious threat. "The range of malicious use of deep fake and similar technologies is very wide: blackmail, discrediting of media persons and politicians, unfair competition in business and politics," she said.
At the same time, the company notes that ordinary users can try to identify fakes, based on several signs. So, on fraudulent videos all the time eyes are open or half-closed, and around the head at sharp movements and change of lighting there are strange loops.
In turn, Stanislav Ashmanov, the head of the company "Neural networks of Ashmanov", said that it is very difficult to create believable deep fake. This requires a lot of different data and a complex algorithm. Now everything that appears on the Network suffers from a lack of quality and looks quite improbable.
“In my opinion, technology has not yet been completely improved to make video indistinguishable from reality, cheap and easy,” he added.
