The U.S. military seeks to develop advanced AI capable of generating fake online personas that are indistinguishable from real people, according to a procurement document recently reviewed by the Intercept.
The Intercept reports that the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is seeking assistance from private companies to create highly convincing deepfake internet users as part of its clandestine military efforts. The request, outlined in a 76-page document by the Department of Defense’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), details the advanced technologies desired for the country’s most elite military operations.
According to the document, JSOC is interested in technologies that can generate unique online personas that appear to be recognizable as human but do not exist in the real world. These fabricated personas should include multiple expressions,…
