[link|http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/135/metro/At_MIT_they_can_put_words_in_our_mouths+.shtml|They can forge videotaped speeches now]
Excerpt:
But scientists warn the technology will also provide a powerful new tool for fraud and propaganda - and will eventually cast doubt on everything from video surveillance to presidential addresses.
''This is really groundbreaking work,'' said
Demetri Terzopoulos, a leading specialist in facial
animation who is a professor of computer science
and mathematics at New York University. But
''we are on a collision course with ethics. If you
can make people say things they didn't say, then
potentially all hell breaks loose.''
I say:
Well, people hear what they want to hear, anyway.