Video has become a primary medium for communicating ideas, making sense of information, and sharing new narratives. While advances in technology – including video-recording capabilities embedded in our mobile devices – have made it easier to capture video, raw media rarely tells a compelling story. And some of the tools that are designed to reduce the effort required to edit and produce high-quality video of talking heads can also be misused to produce “deep-fake” videos.
In this talk, Maneesh Agrawala, Forest Baskett Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, will present several recent projects that aim to facilitate the creation of video content and culture, in addition to exploring the potential for the misuse of these same technologies, and the steps that might be taken to prevent that from happening.