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The intel and espionage communities are going to be all over this. This makes the Soviet photo retouching look like child's play. Let's say you want to start a
by killjoywashere 9y ago
The intel and espionage communities are going to be all over this. This makes the Soviet photo retouching look like child's play.
Let's say you want to start a war, and need some evidence of chemical weapons. Now, you can drop in some images of chemical weapons and claim a GAN found them. Sample press releases:
"We believe this photo was retouched to hide the chemical weapons. Using a GAN, we recovered clear photographic proof of the chemical weapons."
"We believe they are using this tin-roofed building to hide the chemical weapons. Using a GAN on our own satellite images, we recovered clear photographic proof of the chemical weapons."
- ac2u 9y agoCan't see "we used a GAN" as an explanation that would fly. To counter it you can simply say "well, the GAN could be wrong." The technique outlined above is useful because we as humans can eyeball the results and say "the improvement on that blurry zebra photo is great!", but we know that it's an improvement based on a networks hueristics that's good enough for us, not an exact replica of the information lost through noise and compression.
- fenwick67 9y agoI'll grant you that it makes a good scapegoat, but frankly this doesn't really matter... the US went to war with Iraq with bad intel before the machine learning boom.