From: Violet Beck (seizansha@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 20:34:10 MDT
That's extremely comforting.
It also means that we're going to have to look at a whole new perspective
of...well...everything.
>From: "rhinoceros" <rhinoceros@freemail.gr>
>Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
>To: virus@lucifer.com
>Subject: virus: They can put words in our mouths
>Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:29:05 -0600
>
>At MIT, they can put words in our mouths
>From: The Boston Globe
>By: Gareth Cook, Globe Staff, 5/15/2002
>
>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/135/metro/At_MIT_they_can_put_words_in_our_mouths+.shtml
>
>
>CAMBRIDGE - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have
>created the first realistic videos of people saying things they never said
>- a scientific leap that raises unsettling questions about falsifying the
>moving image.
>
>In one demonstration, the researchers taped a woman speaking into a camera,
>and then reprocessed the footage into a new video that showed her speaking
>entirely new sentences, and even mouthing words to a song in Japanese, a
>language she does not speak. The results were enough to fool viewers
>consistently, the researchers report.
>
>The technique's inventors say it could be used in video games and movie
>special effects, perhaps reanimating Marilyn Monroe or other dead film
>stars with new lines. It could also improve dubbed movies, a lucrative
>global industry.
>
>But scientists warn the technology will also provide a powerful new tool
>for fraud and propaganda - and will eventually cast doubt on everything
>from video surveillance to presidential addresses.
>
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