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The plan, mentioned in a new 76-page wish list by the Department of Defense’s Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, outlines advanced technologies desired for country’s most elite, clandestine military efforts. “Special Operations Forces (SOF) are interested in technologies that can generate convincing online personas for use on social media platforms, social networking sites, and other online content,” the entry reads.

The document specifies that JSOC wants the ability to create online user profiles that “appear to be a unique individual that is recognizable as human but does not exist in the real world,” with each featuring “multiple expressions” and “Government Identification quality photos.”

In addition to still images of faked people, the document notes that “the solution should include facial & background imagery, facial & background video, and audio layers,” and JSOC hopes to be able to generate “selfie video” from these fabricated humans. These videos will feature more than fake people: Each deepfake selfie will come with a matching faked background, “to create a virtual environment undetectable by social media algorithms.”

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 47 points 13 hours ago

Can we have a side internet, for us normal people?

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

That exists it's called tildeverse and gemini

[-] disguised_doge@kbin.earth 1 points 3 hours ago

Unfortunately, if everybody goes there the bots will follow.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

What's the pros and cons of those?

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Both go back to 90s tech so you lose a lot of functionality. Gemini is mainly text based with links to files. So think pre web text pages at University's but it's cool to read people's pages without all the distractions of images and video. I have read some cool stories on there. Got an awesome cookie recipe as well from a person in Denmark.

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