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This is a good point, I hadn't really thought about it but the credibility of photos has cratered in the past decade. Deepfakes' destruction of the credibility
by majos 8y ago
This is a good point, I hadn't really thought about it but the credibility of photos has cratered in the past decade.
Deepfakes' destruction of the credibility of videos is still worse because it totally removes the ability of a random citizen witness to capture evidence. This has been useful in the past, e.g. for documenting police brutality or just-developing events like shootings.
In a way this is a very undemocratic development -- putting the power of deepfakes in the hands of ordinary people is going to make everybody a less credible witness, no?
- mbowcutt 8y agoThis aspect is what scares me the most. Nowadays evidence can be easily fabricated and everybody has reason to be a skeptic. The whole Cambridge Analytica debacle started blowing up after deepfakes gained notoriety and started getting banned on most sites. The whole time I was watching the undercover documentary Channel 4 released I kept thinking, "this 'found footage' could easily be a hoax"
- pdkl95 8y ago> it totally removes the ability of a random citizen witness to capture evidence The police/etc have the same problem. > putting the power of deepfakes in the hands of ordinary people is going to make everybody a less credible witness, no? "Ordinary people" have a major advantage: parallelism and redundancy. Making one fake and disseminating it to many people is efficient and cheap. Faking many videos in a way that avoids easily discovered contradictions is very hard. Evidence always needs to be corroborated.