Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need to Know

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Octopus Publishing Group, 6 ago 2020 - 224 pagine

"Nina Schick is alerting us to a danger from the future that is already here." - Adam Boulton, Editor at Large, Sky News

"Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse is an urgent, thoughtful and thoroughly-researched book that raises uncomfortable questions about the way that information is being distorted by states and individuals... A must-read." - Greg Williams, Editor in Chief of WIRED UK

"Essential reading for any one interested about the shocking way information is and will be manipulated." - Lord Edward Vaizey

"Schick's Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse is a short, sharp book that hits you like a punch in the stomach."
- Nick Cohen, The Observer

"Deep Fakes is an uncomfortable but gripping read, probing the way in which the internet has been flooded with disinformation and dark arts propaganda." -
Jim Pickard, Chief Political Correspondent, Financial Times

"A searing insight into a world so many of us find difficult to understand. I was gripped from the first page."
- Iain Dale, Broadcaster

"With this powerful book, Nina Schick has done us all a great public service...It's your civic duty to read it."
- Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics

"Gripping, alarming and morally vital." - Ian Dunt, Host of Remainiacs Podcast


Deep Fakes are coming, and we are not ready.

Advanced AI technology is now able to create video of people doing things they never did, in places they have never been, saying things they never said.

In the hands of rogue states, terrorists, criminals or crazed individuals, they represent a disturbing new threat to democracy and personal liberty.

Deep Fakes can be misused to shift public opinion, swing Presidential elections, or blackmail, coerce, and silence individuals. And when combined with the destabilising overload of disinformation that has been dubbed 'the Infocalypse', we are potentially facing a danger of world-changing proportions.

Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse is International Political Technology Advisor Nina Schick's stark warning about a future we all need to understand before it's too late.

Deep Fake technology at its most insidious can currently be seen in the BBC drama series The Capture.

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Nina Schick is a political commentator, advisor and public speaker, specialising in how technology is reshaping politics in the 21st century. Most recently, her work has seen her advising on the fallout generated from Russian election interference in the US (and around the world) since 2016. Nina has also advised global leaders including Emmanuel Macron, Joe Biden and Anders Fogh Rasmussen (the former Secretary General of NATO).Half German and half Nepalese she speaks seven languages including German, Spanish and French and holds degrees from Cambridge University and University College London. She divides her time between London, Berlin and Kathmandu.

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