Lawmakers want US intelligence assessment on fake videos

This technology uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence to produce videos that appear so genuine it's hard to spot the phonies.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked for a US intelligence assessment of the threat posed by technology that lets anyone make fake, but realistic, videos of real people saying things they’ve never said.

The rising capabilities of the technology are fueling concerns it could be used to make a bogus video, for example, of an American politician accepting a bribe or of a US or an adversarial foreign leader warning of an impending disaster.