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Depends how good the journalistic filters are. Would these deepfakes get through the ones for the New York Times or BBC or Telegraph? Maybe not, but I have no d
by CM30 8y ago
Depends how good the journalistic filters are. Would these deepfakes get through the ones for the New York Times or BBC or Telegraph? Maybe not, but I have no doubt they'd fool the tabloid papers, especially given how low the standards are for stuff like the Sun/Daily Mirror/Daily Star/etc. They'd also likely fool quite a few specialist sites too, especially given the likes of the gaming press have very low standards for credible sources or evidence. People on Twitter have fooled them with blurry cellphone photos on a semi regular basis.
But it definitely depends on the news source and how thorough they are with verifying stories.
- tw1010 8y agoSure, but I still don't see why we should be hysterically scared about its development since I think photoshopped images would have made the same damage a long time ago if the system was really that fragile. The fact that photoshopped images aren't nearly as big a threat as what we're expecting deepfakes to be makes me think that however the set of amplifiers and filters are configured (and I'll admit that I don't have a full understanding of it all), it's likely that they're sufficient to not make society collapse once the technology has matured. Photoshopped images are a sort of "trial balloon" which has already proven that the system is pretty dang robust, that's my thesis.