Information & Ethics committee  If I may, in my view, the quicker route to effectively pulling the curtain back on this and giving meaningful government action towards addressing this issue is far more on the education of the public side than it is on the legislative side. I worry that any legislative tool woul

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not sure that deepfake technology would be an appropriate target for any specific action, only because it is one in a very large belt of tools available to people who are trying to manipulate people through social media. Through the ways that both of the other speakers have s

Information & Ethics committee  Largely, it does. I do agree that it's definitely a form of false information, but to attribute malice to it.... Some deepfakes are done for parody or for humour. There will almost certainly be a Hollywood version of deepfakes used to transplant actors' faces. There will be legit

Information & Ethics committee  Actually, I found an article through search engines that Dr. Wardle participated in, in Australia, which explains it very well. I would encourage people to hit their favourite search engine to find it. Basically, it learns details from a series of images that are publicly sourc

Information & Ethics committee  There are face-swap apps already.

Information & Ethics committee  It's a technology of very limitless application, and will be used for more than faces. It will be used for full bodies. At some point it will be used for transplanting entire things or other characteristics. It could be used for voice just as easily as for face as well.

Information & Ethics committee  In our article, we explore copyright tort and even Criminal Code actions as potential yet sometimes imperfect remedies. We note that deepfake, impressive and game-changing no doubt, is likely overkill from manipulating the public. One certainly would not need complex computer alg

Information & Ethics committee  Thanks very much. Good morning, members of the standing committee and fellow witnesses. I am Ryan Black, partner and co-chair of information technology at McMillan LLP, a national law firm. With me is Pablo Tseng, my colleague in our business and intellectual property groups. W

Information & Ethics committee  From the outset, we want to ensure that the appropriate focus is placed on the roles that users, platforms and bad actors themselves play in propagating social media content. Well-intended platforms can and will be misused, and deepfake videos will certainly be a tool used in tha