Danielle Citron: How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy
Danielle Citronp: Deepkfakes: Cómo ponen en peligro la verdad y la democracia
Danielle Citron writes, speaks and teaches her academic loves: privacy, free speech and civil rights. Through her work with privacy organizations, she also puts these ideas into practice. Full bio
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government corruption
de corrupción del gobierno
and controversy around her work.
y a la polémica de su trabajo.
for what she faced in April 2018.
para lo que enfrentó en abril de 2018.
when she first saw it:
la primera vez que lo vio.
of her engaged in a sex act.
de ella en un acto sexual.
upon thousands of people
miles y miles de personas
about three months ago,
on sexual privacy.
de privacidad sexual.
and civil rights advocate.
y defensora de los derechos civiles,
knowing that right now,
saber que ahora mismo
para ayudarla.
the fake sex video coming.
el falso vídeo sexual.
to demean and to shame women,
menospreciar y avergonzar a las mujeres
who dare to challenge powerful men,"
a desafiar a hombres poderosos",
with screenshots of the video,
se llenaron de capturas del vídeo
y amenazas de muerte
she was "available" for sex.
que ella estaba "disponible" para sexo.
and her cell phone number
y su número de teléfono
more than 40,000 times.
with this kind of cybermob attack,
de este tipo de ataques de mafias online
se puso patas arriba.
comer y hablar.
all of her social media accounts,
sus cuentas de las redes sociales,
when you're a journalist.
her family's home.
made good on their threats?
confirmed that she wasn't being crazy.
afirmó que no estaba loca.
that they were worried about her safety.
que estaban preocupados por su seguridad.
audio and video recordings
diciendo o haciendo cosas
and realistic, but they're not;
y realistas, pero no lo son;
is still developing in its sophistication,
to deepfakes arose,
into porn videos.
insertar caras en vídeos porno.
of fake porn videos
falsos vídeos porno protagonizados
female celebrities.
favoritas de las personas.
and pull up countless tutorials
infinitos tutoriales
on your desktop application.
to make them on our cell phones.
en nuestros móviles.
of some of our most basic human frailties
nuestras debilidades humanas más básicas
a visceral reaction to audio and video.
instintiva a los audios y vídeos.
of course you can believe
obviamente podemos creer
sense of reality.
nuestro sentido de la realidad.
to be true, they're not.
son verdad, no lo son.
to the salacious, the provocative.
and to share information
hoaxes spread 10 times faster
se difunden diez veces más rápido
"confirmation bias."
"sesgo de confirmación".
supercharge that tendency,
sobrecargan esta tendencia
and widely share information
afín a nuestra idea
grave individual and societal harm.
de causar un gran daño individual y social.
in Afganistan burning a Koran.
quemando un Corán en Afganistán.
would provoke violence
puede causar violencia
based in London
and the United Kingdom,
online message services
servicios de mensajería online
against ethnic minorities.
contra las minorías étnicas.
to corrode the trust that we have
de corroer la confianza
las instituciones democráticas.
de unas elecciones.
one of the major party candidates
los candidatos de un partido principal
that elections are legitimate.
sobre la validez de las elecciones.
an initial public offering
a una oferta pública de venta
showing the bank's CEO
mostrando al director ejecutivo
sobre teorías conspirativas.
that financial markets are stable.
la estabilidad del mercado financiero.
the deep distrust that we already have
para aumentar la gran desconfianza
líderes de empresas y otros influyentes.
and other influential leaders.
primed to believe them.
listo para creérselos.
is on the line as well.
también está en peligro.
that with advances in AI,
de Inteligencia Artificial
a real video and a fake one.
un vídeo real de uno falso.
in a deepfake-ridden marketplace of ideas?
en un mercado lleno de deepfakes?
the path of least resistance
de no poner resistencia
the phenomenon of deepfakes
que usan este fenómeno de deepfakes
of their wrongdoing.
tangible de sus acciones.
of their disturbing comments,
sobre audios de comentarios alarmantes
and ears are telling you."
nuestros ojos y oídos".
call the "liar's dividend":
"recompensa del mentiroso"
usen deepfakes
for their wrongdoing.
there's no doubt about it.
de eso no hay duda.
a proactive solution
legisladores,
a healthy dose of societal resilience.
de resistencia social.
in a very public conversation
en una conversación muy pública
of tech companies.
de las empresas tecnológicas,
and community guidelines
y las normas comunitarias
that's going to require human judgment,
and context of a deepfake
de un deepfake
a harmful impersonation
satire, art or education.
artístico o educativo.
what's harmful and what's wrong.
y qué es incorrecto.
by punishing perpetrators
castigando a los responsables
the challenge of deepfakes.
para el desafío de los deepfakes.
digital impersonations
las suplantaciones digitales
is increasingly commonplace.
cada vez es más común.
to law enforcement in Delhi,
en Delhi
that the same would be true
que ocurriría lo mismo
that needs to be filled.
are working with US lawmakers
y yo trabajamos con legisladores de EE.UU.
harmful digital impersonations
las suplantaciones digitales dañinas
de identidad.
of the regulatory puzzle.
una gota en el mar.
impedimentos prácticos.
you can't identify and find.
se lo puede identificar ni encontrar.
outside the country
come into local courts
a coordinated international response.
internacional coordinada.
of our response as well.
parte de nuestra respuesta.
going to enforce laws
no van a imponer leyes
they don't understand.
lacked the training
carece de experiencia
Ignore it. It'll go away."
Ignóralo. Ya pasará".
you're making such a big deal about this.
una montaña de un grano de arena.
with efforts at training.
legislación con la experiencia.
on the media as well.
tienen que animar a la educación.
about the phenomenon of deepfakes
en el fenómeno de deepfakes
where we're all involved.
and we don't even think about it.
sin pensar en ello.
y mejor contra la falsificación.
through these solutions,
en estas soluciones
a lot of suffering to go around.
with the fallout.
con los efectos secundarios.
to express herself on- and offline.
de expresarse online y offline.
of eyes on her naked body,
mirasen su cuerpo desnudo
she knows it wasn't her body.
que no es su cuerpo.
tries to take her picture.
intenta tomarle una foto.
another deepfake?" she thinks to herself.
es lo que piensa.
individuals like Rana Ayyub
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Danielle Citron - Law professor, deepfake scholarDanielle Citron writes, speaks and teaches her academic loves: privacy, free speech and civil rights. Through her work with privacy organizations, she also puts these ideas into practice.
Why you should listen
As a law professor, Danielle Citron puts her commitment to civil rights into practice. She is vice president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a nonprofit combatting privacy-invading online abuse that undermines civil rights and civil liberties.
When Citron began addressing cyber harassment ten years ago, it was commonly believed that it was "no big deal," and that any legal response would "break the internet." Those attitudes -- and the heartbreaking stories of victims who were terrorized, silenced and economically damaged -- drove Citron to write her 2014 book, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. Ever since, she has been working with lawmakers, law enforcers, and tech companies to make online spaces and tools available to all on equal terms. Her latest book project focuses on the importance of sexual privacy and how we should protect it.
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