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and audio recordings that use artificial intelligence and deep learning to create fake content or deepfakes. the u.s. government has grown increasingly concerned about their potential to be used to spread disinformation and commit crimes. that's because the creators of deepfakes have the power to make people say or do anything -- at least on our screens. as we first reported in october, most americans have no idea how far the technology has come in just the last five years or the danger, disruption, and opportunities that come with it. >> you know, i do all my own stunts obviously. i also do my own music. ♪ >> this is not tom cruise. it's one of a series of hyper-realistic deepfakes of the movie star that began appearing on the video sharing app tiktok

in february 2021. >> hey, what's up, tiktok? >> for days people wondered if they were real, and if not, who created them. finally a modest 32-year-old belgian visual effects artist named chris ume stepped forward to claim credit. >> we believed as long as we're making clear this is a parody, we're not doing anything to harm his image. but after a few videos, we realized this is blowing up, we're getting millions and millions and millions of views. >> ume says his work is made easier because he teamed up with a tom cruise impersonator whose voice, gestures and hair are nearly identical to the real mccoy. ume only deep fakes cruise's face and stitches that on to the real video and sound of the impersonator. >> that's where the magic happens. >> it was a tipping point for

deepfakes. >> still got it. >> how do you make this so seamless? >> it begins with training a deepfake model, of course. i have all the face angles of tom cruise and all the expressions and emotions. it takes time to create a real good deepfake model. >> what do you mean training the model? how do you train your computer? >> training means it's going to analyze all of the images of tom cruise, all his expressions compared to my impersonator. so the computer's going to teach itself. when my impersonator is smiling, i'm going to create tom cruise smiling and that's how you train it. >> using video from the cbs news archives, chris ume was able to train his computer to learn every aspect of my face and wipe away the decades. this is how i looked 30 years ago. he can even remove my mustache. the possibilities are endless and a little frightening. >> i see a lot of mistake in my

work but i don't mind actually. i don't want to fool people. i just want to show them what's possible. >> you don't want to fool people? >> no, i want to entertain people. i want to raise awareness, and i want to show where it's all going. >> it is without a doubt one of the most important revolutions in the human communication and perception. i would say it's analogous to the birth of the internet. >> political scientist nina schick is a political scientist and technology consultant who wrote one of the first books on deepfakes. she first came across them five years ago when she was advising european politicians on russia a's use of disinformation and social media to interfere in democratic elections. what was your reaction when you first realized this was possible and was going on? >> well, given that i was coming at it from the perspective of

disinformation and manipulation in the context of elections, the fact that ai can now be used to make images and video that are fake, that look hyper realistic i thought from a disinformation perspective, this is a game changer. >> so far there's no evidence deepfakes have changed the game in a u.s. election, but in march 2021, the fbi put out a notification warning that russian and chinese actors are using synthetic profile images, creating deepfake journalists and media personalities to spread anti-american propaganda on social media. >> how do you get deepfakes -- >> the u.s. military law enforcement and intelligence agencies have kept a wary eye on deepfakes for years. at this 2019 hearing, senator ben sasse of nebraska asked if the u.s. is prepared for the onslaught of disinformation fakery and fraud. >> when you think about the

catastrophic potential to public trust and to markets that could come from deepfake attacks, are we organized in a way that we could possibly respond fast enough? >> we clearly need to be more agile. it poses a major threat to the united states and something that the intelligence community needs to be restructured to address. >> since then technology has continued moving at an exponential pace while u.s. policy has not. efforts by the government and big tech to detect synthetic media are competing with a community of deepfake artists who share their latest creations and techniques online. like the internet, the first place deepfake technology took off was in pornography. the sad fact is the majority of deepfakes today consist of women's faces, mostly celebrities, superimposed on to pornographic videos.

>> the first use case in pornography is just a harbinger of how deepfakes can be used maliciously in many different contexts, which are now starting to arise. >> and they're getting better all the time? >> yes. the incredible thing about deepfakes and synthetic media is the pace of acceleration when it comes to the technology. by five to seven years, we are basically looking at a trajectory where any single creator, a youtuber, a tiktoker will be able to create the same level of visual effects that is only accessible to the most well-resourced hollywood studio today. >> the technology behind deepfakes is artificial intelligence, which mimics the way humans learn. in 2014, researchers for the first time used computers to create realistic looking faces using something called generativ adversarial networks or gans.

>> so you set up an adversarial game where you have two ais combatting each other to try to create the best fake synthetic content and you basically end up with output that is increasingly improving all the time. >> schick says the power of generative adversarial networks is on full display at a website called "this person does not exist.com." >> every time you refresh the page, there's new image of a person who does not exist. >> each is a one of a kind, entirely a.i. generated image of a human being who never has and never will walk this earth. >> you can see every pore on their face. you can see every hair on their head. but now imagine that technology being expanded out not only to human faces in still images but

also to video, to audio synthesis of people's voices and that's really where we're heading right now. >> this is mind blowing. >> yes. >> what's the positive side of this? >> while they use deepfakes it is also going to be used by good actors. first of all i would say that there's a very compelling case to be made for the commercial use of deepfakes. >> victor riparbelli is ceo and co-founder of synthesia, based in london, one of dozens of companies using deepfake technology to transform video and audio productions. >> the way it works is that we've essentially replaced cameras with code, and once you're working with software, we do a lot of things you wouldn't be able to do in a normal camera. we are still very early but this is a fundamental change in how we create media. >> the video was of course

generated by synthesia. >> it makes and sells digital avatars using the faces of paid actors to deliver personalized messages in 64 languages and allows corporate ceos to address employees overseas. >> did somebody say just eat? forth and multiply why this commercial just eat cost a fortune. ♪ just eat ♪ >> just eat has a subsidiary in australia which is called menulog. so what we did with our technology was we switched out the word just eat for menulog. ♪ me knew log ♪ >> did somebody say menulog? >> all of a sudden they had a localized version for the australian market without snoop dog having to do anything. >> so he makes twice the money, huh? >> yeah.

>> all it took was eight minutes of me reading a script on camera to create my synthetic talking head, complete with my gestures, head and mouth movements, another company descript used a.i. to create a synthetic version of my voice. >> this is bill whitaker's voice. >> with my cadence, tenor and syncopation. >> this is the result. the words you're hearing were never spoken by the real bill into a microphone or camera. he merely typed the words into a computer and they come out of my mouth. >> it may sound and look a little rougher around the edges but as the technology improves the possibility to spin images and words out of thin air is endless. >> i'm bill whitaker. i'm bill whitaker. i'm bill whitaker. >> wow. and the head, the eyebrows, the mouth, the way it moves. >> it's all synthetic. >> i could be lounging at the beach and say, folks, you know,

i'm not going to come in today. but you can use my avatar to do the work. >> maybe in a few years. >> don't tell me that. i'd be tempted. >> i think it will have a big impact. >> the rapid advances in synthetic media have caused a virtual gold rush. tom graham recently started a company called meta physic with none other than chris ume. the goal to develop software to allow anyone to create hollywood caliber movies without lights, cameras or even actors. >> as the hardware scales and as the models become more efficient, we can scale up the size of that model to be an entire tom cruise body movement and everything. >> talk about disruptive. i mean, are you going to put actors out of jobs? >> i think it is a great thing if you're a well-known actor today because you may be able to let somebody collect data for you to create a version of yourself in the future where you

could be acting in movies after you have deceased or you could be the director directing your younger self in a movie or something like that. >> if you're wondering how all of this is legal, most deepfakes are considered protected free speech. attempts at legislation are all over the map. in new york, commercial use of a performer's synthetic likeness without consent is banned for 40 years after their death. california and texas prohibit deceptive political deepfakes in the leadup to an election. >> there are so many ethical, philosophical gray zones here that we really need to think about. >> how do we as a society grapple with this? >> just understanding what's going on. because a lot of people still don't know what a deepfake is, what synthetic media is, that this is now possible. the counter to that is how do we inoculate ourselves and understand that this kind of content is coming and exists

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abuses and hard authoritarian turn. one of the loudest voices condemning china is not a voice at all but rather a hand. since self-exiling from china in 2009, the artist known as badiucao has used his work to take on the country's leader xi jinping specifically and the regime more generally. like all the best political cartoonists he is angry and playful as he calls attention to what he sees as china's brutality. as we first reported in december, it's come as a steep price. he may never go home again. but on he goes traveling the world using paint and wit on line and on walls to draw truth to power. had you been in miami beach last fall, you'd been for given if for walking by this plaza and thinking you encountered promotional boards for the beijing winter olympics. but it was a provocative visual argument for why china was unfit

to host the games. here was a chinese hockey player bloodying a tibetan monk. a curler representing china's delay in warning the world about covid. this is the handiwork of badiucao. now based in australia. i notice if you look closely those aren't conventional olympic rings. >> they're barbed wire. that's how china is going to use it not as a celebration for humanity but use it as a platform to promoting its propaganda, which is fundamentally cracking down on people's basic rights. >> he came to accept the award % for creative dissent. what do you see as the purpose

of your art? >> i sometimes imagine i'm this kid holding a big rock and you throw the rock into the lake and see all the splash and you see the change. >> you see the rock in the lake, see the splash, see where the ripples ripple? >> exactly. >> china does not allow ripples. inside china there are strict laws forbidding mocking and questioning the chinese communist party. even outside china, dissent does not go over well. do you feel in danger? do you feel unsafe? >> well, this is actually my daily routine, that i will receive death threat on daily basis online, on my social media, twitter, instagram, direct message. >> he knows as an artist poking the chinese regime, he risks retaliation, both against himself and his family back in china. for years he hid behind a mask in public, working incognito, guerrilla style, both in australia and any time he

traveled. he adopted a pseudonym, that has no real meaning. how many people know your real name? >> if you know then you know my real name and if you know my real name you don't know. >> when the chinese figured out the real identify three years. >> he went underground but he took off the mask and continued to hurl darts at the regime. in this recent cartoon, he confronts the reality of accusing a former vice premier of sexual assault. >> i want to be an inspiring figure. i want my art to helping others to collecting courage and join me. but if i giving up this then what does it say to the rest of them? >> what is the relationship between your popularity and your security? >> i do think it has a very close relationship.

>> so almost the more popular you get, you're buying yourself an extra layer of security? >> yeah. and that's the only way that you can do it. >> maybe so but being popular also means his work has been scrubbed by sensors inside china. what is it about your work that drives this re c >> i guess it's this attitude that i don't care about how serious you are, how dangerous you are. i'm just going to be myself. i am an individual. i'm not controlled by any authority. certainly not ccp. that scares them because all they want is total control. >> it sounds like you know exactly what buttons to push, what levers to pull on that's going to tweak them. >> i guess it's not me finding the button. it's them offering the button to me. >> one example among many, an internet people surfaced comparing xi jinping and barack obama to winnie the pooh and

tigger. no big deal, right? china censored any image linking xi to pooh. to him this was irresistible. he created a series of cartoons poking fun at xi's hardline stance against a disney character. what was it about winnie the pooh? why haine the pooh is so loved by the public and so recognized. when it's combined with xi jinping's image then you have people ask questions. why do you want et that yellow bear? >> you recognize the power of a benign yellow bear. >> exactly. if you are in a democrat society, i think politician will be thrilled if they can compare with winnie the pooh instead of some evil character. but we're talking about china. >> when xi was re-elected by parliament the margin was 2, 970

votes to 0. and he created this image on that he called xi forever. when the communist party went to work on passing a resolution favorably equating xi to mao badiucao went to work in manhattan and compared xi to a magician conjuring mao's spirit. >> xi jinping is trying to portray himself as another renaissance of china. he wants to achieve what mao achieved. he wants to be celebrated as this god-like figure like mao enjoyed in his time. >> it was by accident that he became a leading critic of the chinese communist party. in 2007, he was a law student in his hometown of shanghai watching a film online when a movie abruptly switched to footage someone secretly

embedded depicting the tiananmen square protest. >> that is actually the very first time i know this exists. >> so wait. you're in law school in your 20s and the first time you're hearing it when it randomly is in a documentary you see? >> yes. thanks to some clever dissident who made this happen. >> your parents hadn't told but this? >> never. >> teachers? >> never. >> discovering the truth made him want to leave china. it wasn't just what had happened. it was how easily the history was erased. in 2009, he resettled to australia, gave up law and started drawing, despite no formal training. he eventually branched out, traveling and performing street

art to highlight china's oppression. repression. in these scenes from the australia's documentary "china's art artful disdent," still masked posed in front of berlin's brandenburg gate, honoring one of the most taboo subjects in china, the nameless protester who stood in front of the chinese military in 1989. >> tank man is haunting the ccp the most. >> what does tank man represent? >> it shows that any ordinary people or person could have the courage to in front of the most powerful object. >> i know the image of tank man is always near you. >> before the 25th anniversary of tiananmen massacre, i just want something on my right arm, the arm i use to draw as a reminder that this ordinary chinese guy who just collect all

the courage in the world and push himself in front of tank. he's fearless. >> while in the u.s. he connected with students who marched for democracy in tiananmen square. they're now middle aged, exiled. and still bear scars. and this man lost his legs to a tank during the massacre. joe was among the first to enter tiananmen square and one of the last to leave. the former students see badiucao keeping alive the ideals. >> it is important for the next generation to carry the torch on and i see this hope in him. he's so creative. >> that's how you feel? he's carrying the torch for what your generation started? >> yes, definitely. >> as a protest leader, he became the fifth most wanted man in china. he spent a year in jail and fled to the u.s. in the mid '90s. he says china doesn't know how

to handle badiucao. >> chinese influence over the world is so pervasive. it can come true, anything in u.s. companies but still we cannot change badiucao. this one single person who can always come out with endless arts challenging the authority. >> you think the chinese communist party can pressure companies and other nations but they can't pressure this guy? >> that's the spirit of tank man. the person versus the entire nation. he's definitely a thorn in their eye. >> he may be a lone dissident taking on the world's largest government, but he is convinced his is no exercise in futility. you said you admire the mythological figure sisyphus. >> right. >> what did you mean by that? >> his mission seems doomed that

he will never push the rock to the top of the mountain. it's a bit like me when i'm creating artworks to challenge the chinese regime. i don't know when it will be changed or if my work will change it at all. but even if that is a reality, does it mean my work has no meaning? i don't think so. >> in september, he brought out his paintbrush to convey his outrage for china's crackdown on hong kong, fashioning hong kong's leader carrie lee as a puppet of xi jinping, he melded their faces. last november that combined image greeted visitors as badiucao held his first major solo exhibition. it almost didn't happen. at the last minute china tried to flex its muscle. >> they actually started writing letters. it's like a blackmailing. if you do the show, maybe in the future our collaboration will be problematic. >> specifically the chinese

embassy in rome demanded the show be cancelled because the exhibition was full of anti-chinese lies, would seriously wound the feelings of the chinese people, impose a threat to friendly relations between china and italy. the italian authorities held firm and the show went on. there was a nod to what badiucao sees as xi slow response to covid. to what extent do you express what the people inside china can't? >> i think this is a reality that chinese people do not have a sense of safety that they can speak freely, but i am in this very privileged position that i'm not in china, so i have every responsibility to make my voice to be heard to become their voices.

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if you've never heard of free diving, imagine this. launching yourself hundreds of feet into the sea with little more than a mask, a heavy dose of bravery, and one deep breath. spear fishermen and pearl divers have been free diving for years. a growing number of people are now doing it for sport. there are hundreds of competitions around the world

with athletes testing their limits and good sense by diving as deeply as they can without scuba gear. our bob simon gave us a glimpse nine years ago. last september we brought you the story of one man who's now dominating the sport. 43-year-old russian diver alexey molchanov. he's known as "the machine," the undisputed keep of the deep. off the turquoise coast of bahamas you see dean's hole. it looks like an inkwell. 663 feet deep it is the perfect place for the elite free divers to try to rewrite the sport's history. this is the annual vertical blue competition. we went there to meet alexey molchanov, to watch him glide through the waters to glimpse something other worldly. he looks part golden poseiden,

part porpoise kicking from the sparkling blue water into the dark. he can dive 39 stories deep while holding a single breath for nearly minutes. >> it doesn't seem like a good idea to dive that deep and to hold your breath that long. >> why? for me it does. >> it does? >> yes. i enjoy finding new boundaries and pushing the perimeter because i know i can. i know from all these years and thousands of hours of training and diving, how well i can use my oxygen and how efficient i can use it. >> what does it feel like? >> it feels very much like flying, the pure joy of flying. like staying and feeling no urge to breathe. >> you're enjoying it? >> yeah, yeah. without joy it doesn't work. >> we were given the sport's

equivalent of a sideline pass. our photographers circled beneath the surface as free divers tested themselves in four disciplines, with or without fins, with or without the use of a rope to pull them down. going into last year's competition, molchanov held the world record in three of the four disciplines and wanted to break them all. we watched as he prepared for his most ambitious dive attempt, 430 feet, more than the length of a football field. >> three, two, one. >> with the judges looking on, he takes in his final breath. he looks like a goldfish desperate for air. he's packing his lungs with air. then slips beneath the surface, his whale-like fin giving him fight buoyancy.

>> world record attempt. >> at around 65 feet he drops his arms to his side and enters freefall. his lungs are now a third of their surface size and he starts to sink. he's clipped to a dive line that can yank him back to safety. once he reaches his designated depth, he grabs a tag to prove he's gone the distance. >> touchdown. >> he's already been underwater for almost two and a half minutes. >> coming up. >> then he begins the most dangerous part of the dive. with his last reserves of air and his lungs now a tenth of their normal size, he transfers air between his mouth and sinuses, equalizing the pressure in his body to prevent his ears from rupturing and makes his way slowly towards the light. a team of safety diver circling along the way. but that's not it.

he then has to prove he's alert, not disoriented by the water's crushing pressure by giving the okay sign within 20 seconds of surfacing and then presenting his tag. if he's unable to do this in this order, the dive is disqualified. molchanov does it, diving 430 feet for 4:33, setting a new world record with a single breath. >> during the dive it's very important to be zen. it's very important to be relaxed and not to think about the goal, how far deep you want to go because that will damage your mind state, the current state, where you stay to be very focused, very still and relaxed. >> people think free diving is this very extreme sport. how dangerous is the sport of free diving? >> the most dangerous side of free diving i would say if you

go out to the sea and free dive alone, then that's very dangerous because there is a risk of blacking out underwater. >> blackouts happen when divers push their limits too far and oxygen reserves are drained, a fate that claims the lives of about 60 recreational free drivers each year. that's something the world of competitive free diving has worked hard to prevent by adding safety divers, underwater monitoring and doctors at every event. there's only been one death during a competition in the last 20 years. have you ever had a blackout? >> i have. when i was a beginning free diver, i would be very stubborn and push it to the end. i wouldn't listen to the signals my body gives to me. and now i will have much better awareness of what's going on. >> when i was sitting out there watching you guys dive and i was

watching the competitors, a lot of them would come up and gasp for air. and you emerged from the water and you smiled. >> i think that's an essence of being able to do really deep dives and records. it's very hard to do those deep dives being stressed. it looks from the outside easy but it's not. by the time i finish, my muscles are tired, heavy. some tiles burning. i would feel that but still i surface and train this positive mindset. i look up. take a couple recovery breaths. so the difference between just a few seconds before and then i got the breaths is so big that give so much joy. >> his famously easy temperament is how the machine earned his other nickname, "the golden retriever." >> what's it like to compete against him?

>> for me it's like a dream. all the time he's laughing and smiling. all the time he enjoys life and it's beautiful. >> they are friends and competitors. gilbert holds a national record from mexico and jannal has french records to his name. what makes him so good? >> that's a good question. >> i think it's experience. >> he has a very sportsman mindset. so the confidence in himself, in his training, on what he believes and on growing the sport he's also encouraging and pushing other athletes to become better. >> this 26-year-old is one of the only divers who has beat his record. do you push each other do you think?

>> not too much because i'm less competitive to him. i prefer a more romantic to alexey. >> he's more competitive. you're more french. >> only a russian might think this was a good idea. in 2020, alexey swam beneath a frozen quarry outside of moscow. holes were cut in the ice in case he needed to surface, but he held his breath for nearly three minutes swimming nearly 600 feet across. last spring, he stepped into the ice in siberia for a swim. it was 14 degrees outside when he broke another world record. the deepest dive under ice with fins. on a single breath, he swam to 262 feet deep in 37-degree water. >> that does not sound joyful to me. >> that was was not as joyful as here for sure. >> and does the cold add

additional stresses to your body? >> it does. it makes the face numb and you lose heat very fast. it gives you a very short period of time when i was able to dive nd.e rea o to focus fast. he does daly stretches and deep breathing exercises, something he calls lung gymnastics to build diaphragm, rib and back mobility opinion. >> i would just demonstrate. inhale. exhale. and then relaxation. and then this portion in the neck and the mouth which i just grab and i push it in the box. >> researchers who study molchanov estimate he takes in two gallons of air before a dive. it's a technique he learned from

his mother, natalia molchanova, considered the greatest free diver of all time. she came at the sport at 40 years old after a successful swimming career in russia. >> she was my coach in swimming. i was following her trainings. we would go to the pool. she would do her training, and i would do my training. me following her as a free diver, that was very natural. she started to be the best, very, very fast. i was proud, very proud of her. >> what did she teach you about the sport? >> the main thing that she taught me about free diving is that i should enjoy it. it not about records. numbers come later. >> together they took on the free diving world and commanded it. he achieved his first record at 21. by 53 his mother held 42 records

and she was teaching a free diving lesson off the coast of spain when she disappeared. her body was never found. >> at that point you kept free diving. no one would have blamed you if you said, you know what, i'm done. why did you keep going? >> i felt that free diving is actually the best thing for me to do. it was the best therapy being in the water and being -- >> really? >> yeah. yeah. it just helped to be like in peace and helped to be like to just live through that. >> molchanov seems at peace underwater, chasing whales and not records. >> amazing. and on land with his new son and his wife elena, a former olympic swimmer. the family is expanding the free diving schools his mother started, certifying hundreds of instructors in 20 countries. as the sport grows, alexey feels

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