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Right, and what if you can also fabricate the evidence used for the blackmail. Image generation techniques are improving year over year and we've gotten to the

Right, and what if you can also fabricate the evidence used for the blackmail. Image generation techniques are improving year over year and we've gotten to the point where generating a video of a person saying anything you want in their voice with their face is coming closer to the realm of home computing power. Anyone with the time could focus on hacking social media accounts or even just faking a sceenshot. The media doesn't need much inclination or evidence to start the slander.

bilbo0s 8y ago
Yeah, what I'm getting at more is the stuff that doesn't make it to the level of the media, but some guy could still use to make money. The media won't care about some random lawyer having an affair, but the lawyer's wife would. The media won't care about some random doctor who talked about how she could off the sub-human blacks if she wanted, but it'll be about 5 seconds before lawyers and, more importantly, medical review boards, start looking into statistics at her hospital. You have to be prominent before the media cares, but there are plenty of people with money who are NOT prominent, and I suspect they'd make very tempting targets. In fact, I'd bet the people at that level would actually be more likely to pay up.
xtiansimon 8y ago
> wholinator2: Right, and what if you can also fabricate the evidence used for the blackmail. I have a suspicion this threat, and the OP are Quantitatively different at the present time. If unscrupulous companies correlate an effective network with PII, they could do a lot of mischief on a massive scale and many people would be largely unaware. Sell your data, use your data as training data for some other bad action etc. Making fakes requires an audience of, possibly discerning, humans to find the fakes convincing and then take some action.

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Right, and what if you can also fabricate the evidence used for the blackmail. Image generation techniques are improving year over year and we've gotten to the

by wholinator2 8y ago

bilbo0s 8y ago
Yeah, what I'm getting at more is the stuff that doesn't make it to the level of the media, but some guy could still use to make money. The media won't care about some random lawyer having an affair, but the lawyer's wife would. The media won't care about some random doctor who talked about how she could off the sub-human blacks if she wanted, but it'll be about 5 seconds before lawyers and, more importantly, medical review boards, start looking into statistics at her hospital. You have to be prominent before the media cares, but there are plenty of people with money who are NOT prominent, and I suspect they'd make very tempting targets. In fact, I'd bet the people at that level would actually be more likely to pay up.
xtiansimon 8y ago
> wholinator2: Right, and what if you can also fabricate the evidence used for the blackmail. I have a suspicion this threat, and the OP are Quantitatively different at the present time. If unscrupulous companies correlate an effective network with PII, they could do a lot of mischief on a massive scale and many people would be largely unaware. Sell your data, use your data as training data for some other bad action etc. Making fakes requires an audience of, possibly discerning, humans to find the fakes convincing and then take some action.