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We've been able to make convincing fake video since the 60s (see Kubric). Even impersonators with good makeup can get pretty close. I don't see how new tech c

We've been able to make convincing fake video since the 60s (see Kubric). Even impersonators with good makeup can get pretty close. I don't see how new tech changes anything.

VikingCoder 9y ago
It makes it easier, cheaper, faster to create fake content. And then it's easier to get viewers and to spread virally. It's like you're asking why a modern CPU is any different than a PDP-11, since they're both Turing machines.
PurpleBoxDragon 9y ago
As cost goes down it becomes more accessible. Take a fake video of the president. People are likely to be willing to buy the explanation someone went through the trouble of hiring an actor and makeup specialist to make such a fake video. But a fake video of a school board member? Does anyone really have the resources to spend all the money needed to hire a look alike and make a video? Would people be more willing to think like that and assume the video is true? I think so. Apps that can create realistic fake videos will get better and cheaper, meaning that increasing numbers of people will be able to create more convincing fake videos. At least for a while the technology will outpace the social awareness, and this gap is where we will see problems. Imagine a new form of cyber bullying that relied of using a fake app.
SteveJS 9y ago
It lowers the cost and effort, on an incredibly effective form of lying. It is effective because it engages a set of senses we have a harder time questioning ... and for good reason ... it’s (currently) easy to spot these unless you are really distracted. That’s because our brains blind us to how it constructs what we see ... we don’t get to continuously deconstruct our consciousness of red or blue, or a three dimensional reality. Such an adaptation would have been counterproductive. These videos cross back and forth in the ‘uncanny valley’ right now. I could easily tell it’s a fake, though i can’t explain why. Our ability to spot these with effort won’t be true forever. I do fully agree that people have overcome public lying in many forms. It does take a while for society as a whole to adjust.
- billylindeman 9y ago
  I'm interested on how society will adapt to this in criminal cases. I think soon we'll need better ways to authenticate and validate video / audio evidence.
jackhack 9y ago
>>convincing fake video since the 60s (see Kubric) I assume you mean stanley kubrick. What are you referring to?
- arkis22 9y ago
  I would guess the conspiracy that the US government paid Kubrick to fake the moon landing.
- Intermernet 9y ago
  Probably "Dr Strangelove". Everyone knows that we didn't have the adequate technology to make movies starring one person in three different roles in 1964. Peter Sellers was cloned for the three separate roles in "The Mouse That Roared" in 1959, and then two of the clones were murdered once the "Dr Strangelove" was completed. Both movies were filmed on a sound stage controlled and built by the CIA.

We've been able to make convincing fake video since the 60s (see Kubric). Even impersonators with good makeup can get pretty close. I don't see how new tech changes anything.

VikingCoder 9y ago

It makes it easier, cheaper, faster to create fake content. And then it's easier to get viewers and to spread virally. It's like you're asking why a modern CPU is any different than a PDP-11, since they're both Turing machines.

PurpleBoxDragon 9y ago

As cost goes down it becomes more accessible. Take a fake video of the president. People are likely to be willing to buy the explanation someone went through the trouble of hiring an actor and makeup specialist to make such a fake video. But a fake video of a school board member? Does anyone really have the resources to spend all the money needed to hire a look alike and make a video? Would people be more willing to think like that and assume the video is true? I think so. Apps that can create realistic fake videos will get better and cheaper, meaning that increasing numbers of people will be able to create more convincing fake videos. At least for a while the technology will outpace the social awareness, and this gap is where we will see problems. Imagine a new form of cyber bullying that relied of using a fake app.

SteveJS 9y ago

It lowers the cost and effort, on an incredibly effective form of lying. It is effective because it engages a set of senses we have a harder time questioning ... and for good reason ... it’s (currently) easy to spot these unless you are really distracted. That’s because our brains blind us to how it constructs what we see ... we don’t get to continuously deconstruct our consciousness of red or blue, or a three dimensional reality. Such an adaptation would have been counterproductive. These videos cross back and forth in the ‘uncanny valley’ right now. I could easily tell it’s a fake, though i can’t explain why. Our ability to spot these with effort won’t be true forever. I do fully agree that people have overcome public lying in many forms. It does take a while for society as a whole to adjust.

billylindeman 9y ago
I'm interested on how society will adapt to this in criminal cases. I think soon we'll need better ways to authenticate and validate video / audio evidence.

jackhack 9y ago

>>convincing fake video since the 60s (see Kubric) I assume you mean stanley kubrick. What are you referring to?

arkis22 9y ago
I would guess the conspiracy that the US government paid Kubrick to fake the moon landing.
Intermernet 9y ago
Probably "Dr Strangelove". Everyone knows that we didn't have the adequate technology to make movies starring one person in three different roles in 1964. Peter Sellers was cloned for the three separate roles in "The Mouse That Roared" in 1959, and then two of the clones were murdered once the "Dr Strangelove" was completed. Both movies were filmed on a sound stage controlled and built by the CIA.