MIT releases deepfake video of 'Nixon' announcing NASA Apollo 11 disaster

Old Guard trying to get ahead of what's about to drop??

MIT and Mozilla want people to better understand the disturbing power of deepfake videos in a new project called In Event of Moon Disaster.

The Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, was a landmark moment in space history. But what if the astronauts died during their mission to the moon, and President Richard Nixon had to deliver tragic news on TV to the American viewing public?

In this disturbingly real deepfake video, President Nixon breaks the news that NASA failed and astronauts died on the moon. Deepfakes are video forgeries that make people appear to be doing or saying things they aren't. Deepfake software has made manipulated videos accessible and increasingly harder to detect as fake.

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace," Nixon says in the deepfake video referring to astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

It took a half a year for Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI experts to create the very convincing 7-minute deepfake video that mixes actual NASA footage with Nixon delivering a tragic speech as though Apollo 11 had not succeeded in its mission to the moon.

https://www.cnet.com/news/mit-releases-deepfake-video-of-nixon-announcing-nasa-apollo-11-disaster/