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Is volume really what dictates whether or not you can impersonate someone? It's never seemed that way to me.

• hcs 8y ago
  It affects how many people you can impersonate, cheap enough for many authors with small readerships each. (I guess, it does seem overblown.)
• pishpash 8y ago
  More to the point, is volume what counts as danger? All these deepfake risks boil down to online (for now) sock puppetry. We've been dealing with that for the whole life of the internet. The only reason it's even a problem in recent years is the growth of uninnoculated masses who haven't been on the internet that long, and positive feedback recommendation bots. That seems a qualitative issue not a quantitative one.
• cma 8y ago
  It lets you impersonate a crowd, or various crowds.
  • pas 8y ago
    "PR firms" already have an army of fake/paid accounts on every important platform. This new AI could help them with that. They can let go of the paid writers and hire an IT guy/gal to operate the bots - and the VPNs. (Or they can just pay a lot less to the paid trolls just for their home ADSL/Cable/4G connection.) But so far this AI is not going to pass a Turing test. Sure, maybe it can be integrated with a chatbot. And it'll be interesting how internet communities will react.