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On the flipside, this gives anyone basic plausible deniability. No baby, that homemade porn video on my phone wasn't me! I just used a program to stick my fac

• onion2k 9y ago
  Plausible deniability doesn't really work in real life though. Very few people are going to give you, or anyone accused of an indiscretion, the benefit of the doubt on the basis that a video might have been faked with AI. That is much less plausible than someone cheating and getting caught. If you think anyone is going to accept that a video is fake, even if it is, then you're woefully naive.
  • LV-426 9y ago
    As someone with a generally cynical/pessimistic outlook I too, like blunte, want to see something positive in this. Hopefully, since it can't be stopped, it becomes so routinely used against so many people that everyone stops caring any more if it's real or fake. It's sad that our attitudes (if not behaviour) towards sex are still so fucked up and judgemental thanks to thousands of years of religious/Victorian/puritanical brainwashing and guilt-tripping.
    • andrepd 9y ago
      Western sexual revolution can be said to have happened little more than 50 years ago. Culture takes a lot of time to revert.
  • DennisP 9y ago
    That's true right now because video fakes are new and rare. Photoshop fakes have been around for years, and now when there's an apparent nude photo of someone famous, people generally assume it's fake unless there's a particular reason to believe it's real, such as a publicized hack. On the other hand, video of an intimate partner may have enough behavioral cues so fakes aren't much of an issue, unless the attacker has started with video surveillance of the target.
  • dboreham 9y ago
    There’s an episode of Downton Abbey where it goes the other way.
  • Izkata 9y ago
    Doubt could be made if you kept a video of yourself with Arnold Schwarzenegger's body in the same place as that video.
• bambax 9y ago
  Yes, exactly. > It isn’t difficult to imagine an amateur programmer running their own algorithm to create a sex tape of someone they want to harass. If it's trivial to fake a porn video with anyone's face on it, then the burden of proof is on the harasser to demonstrate how this one's real. Or you can take said video and put some famous people's face on it as a response. Also, the source video probably existed before and was more or less publicly available, which is proof that the version with your face is the fake one. (And if you're facing an enemy that has enough ressources to shoot a specially-made porn video just to smite you, you have bigger problems to worry about).
  • alsetmusic 9y ago
    > (And if you're facing an enemy that has enough ressources to shoot a specially-made porn video just to smite you, you have bigger problems to worry about). While there may be a barrier to applying the technology after the fact, shooting a homemade video is something that can be accomplished by anyone with a modern smart phone. In fact, if you want your fake porn to look authentic (for purposes of blackmail or otherwise), this is how you would do it. Then it could be claimed that it was self shot and leaked to the internet via a cloud “hack” or similar.
• DoreenMichele 9y ago
  In the scenario posited, it would depend a lot on a) the character and reputation of the denier and b) the gullibility of the person being lied to. Of course, people who would both make such a video and also lie to their SO about it tend to seek out gullible easy marks who buy their BS. But sometimes such people get wise to it at some point.
• akerro 9y ago
  > On the flipside, this gives anyone basic plausible deniability. It's enough to say publicly "X molested me 20years ago" to destroy a person. No proof or witness needed.