On the federal level, officials say the red warning signals are flashing. CIA Director Gina Haspel; Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, director of the National Security Agency and U. S. Cyber Command; FBI Director Christopher A. Wray; and then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats highlighted deepfakes at an annual worldwide threat assessment to Congress this year. "Adversaries and strategic competitors probably will attempt to use deepfakes or similar machine-learning technologies to create convincing, but false, image, audio and video files to augment influence campaigns directed against the United States and our allies and partners, " Mr. Coats said in his prepared testimony. 'A constantly evolving problem' Capitol Hill lawmakers have yet to pass any significant deepfake legislation. Asked how it is addressing deepfake concerns, the Republican National Committee did not provide information, citing operational security. But Republican officials said they are constantly reminding party members to be vigilant and report anything that appears suspicious to their digital team.
The Internet Archive aims to augment its efforts by partnering with larger publishers, such as LOCKSS, Portico, JSTOR, and institutional repositories. Newbold said it would be helpful to have the equivalent of youtube-dl – a tool for downloading YouTube videos – for open access papers. "There is a lot of content on large platforms and publishers which have anti-crawling measures (even for gold OA and hybrid content! ), as well as a long tail of small publishers that don't use simple/common mechanisms like OAI-PMH and the 'citation_pdf_url' HTML meta tag to identify full text content. The OAI-PMH ecosystem sadly is not very complete or helpful for the use case of mirroring, " said Newbold. ®