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107 Calif. L. Rev. 1753 (2019)
Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security

handle is hein.journals/calr107 and id is 1789 raw text is: Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security Bobby Chesney* and Danielle Citron** Harmful lies are nothing new. But the ability to distort reality has taken an exponential leap forward with deep fake technology. This capability makes it possible to create audio and video of real people saying and doing things they never said or did. Machine learning techniques are escalating the technology's sophistication, making deep fakes ever more realistic and increasingly resistant to detection. Deep-fake technology has characteristics that enable rapid and widespread diffusion, putting it into the hands of both sophisticated and unsophisticated actors. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38RVOD15J Copyright © 2019 California Law Review, Inc. California Law Review, Inc. (CLR) is a California nonprofit corporation. CLR and the authors are solely responsible for the content of their publications. * James Baker Chair, University of Texas School of Law; co-founder of Lawfare. ** Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law; Vice President, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; Affiliate Fellow, Yale Information Society Project; Affiliate Scholar, Stanford Center on Internet and Society. We thank Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, Marc Blitz, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Chris Bregler, Rebecca Crootof, Jeanmarie Fenrich, Mary Anne Franks, Nathaniel Gleicher, Patrick Gray, Yasmin Green, Klon Kitchen, Woodrow Hartzog, Herb Lin, Helen Norton, Suzanne Nossel, Andreas Schou, and Jessica Silbey for helpful suggestions. We are grateful to Susan McCarty, Samuel Morse, Jessica Burgard, and Alex Holland for research assistance. We had the great fortune of getting feedback from audiences at the PEN Board of Trustees meeting; Heritage Foundation; Yale Information Society Project; University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Northeastern School of Journalism 2019 symposium on AL, Media, and the Threat to Democracy; and the University of Maryland School of Law's Trust and Truth Decay symposium. We appreciate the Deans who generously supported this research: Dean Ward Farnsworth of the University of Texas School of Law, and Dean Donald Tobin and Associate Dean Mike Pappas of the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. We are grateful to the editors of the California Law Review, especially Erik Kundu, Alex Copper, Yesenia Flores, Faye Hipsman, Gus Tupper, and Brady Williams, for their superb editing and advice. 1753

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