Deep Fake:

 Deep Fake:   

 by  Atta Kakar

        As the computer technology is immensely developing day by day, astonishing techniques are introduced for humiliating and blackmailing purposes.In a modern-day, the procedure of war is also changed into cyber-warfare and the opponents are harmed via the internet.In addition to this, “Deep Fake or synthetic video is the technology used for making fake videos.The fake one can fool anyone in a minute.To know the "Deep Fake" If you want to see the evidence with your own eyes just watch those faked videos on YouTube .

               The technology uses neural networks to make such fake videos. It collects hundreds of video footage and analyses the lips movement, eye contact and rest of the body language of the targeted person. Basically, neural network is artificial intelligence or machine language. Its basic design is inspired by the human brain’s neurons. The more video footage are provided to the neural network the batter accuracy it will produce. 

         Sadly,the ordinary and uneducated folk of our society even doesn't  know how to operate an android phone or computer system. There is no denying of the fact that we are thousands of years behind then developed world. Hundreds of thousands of fake photos and voiced-over videos are circulating on social networking sites.It might be easy to recognize both fake photos and dubbed videos, but when it comes to synthetic videos, the high quality clips are hard to identify easily . 

            In the critical status quo, where every other day people are inculpating with blasphemy and other similar sensitive matters, one can imagine how much dangerous the “Deep Fake” can be where the phenomenon is “seeing is believing”. Suppose, the anti-state elements project Manzoor Pashtoon’s “Deep Fake, would it be possible to justify the clip to a common person to avoid hatred towards the charismatic leader? obviously not.

               Thus, the youth need to research and to keep themselves in touch with new technologies and advancement in order to tackle the unlawful and illicit propaganda such as fake news and fake videos.Gone are the days when people harassed through Photoshop. The new technology can be more  disastrous in terms of extortion.