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2 big impacts I think deepfakes will have. 1. Internet mobs will be de-clawed and any random person on the street that may have had their private information u
by jsonne 7y ago
2 big impacts I think deepfakes will have.
1. Internet mobs will be de-clawed and any random person on the street that may have had their private information used against them now has instant plausible deniability. This is a big step towards valuing due process and personal privacy as digging into people's personal histories will become far less valuable than before if it can simple be handwaved away.
2. This could be a step back from the balkanization of the media. If anything can be faked than personal reputation and organizational reputation will be become far more valuable when it comes to the spread of stories.
- aassddffasdf 7y agoRegarding #1: not so with widely deployed cryptographic provenance. Also, AI can detect deep fakes and image manipulation.
- Reedx 7y agoThe problem is that mobs don't care about what's real. They're incentivized to believe whatever reinforces their existing narrative.
- aiyodev 7y agoUnfortunately, history proves this wrong. The average person on the street won’t have plausible deniability because deepfakes won’t be good enough to avoid detection. But rich and powerful people and governments will be able to create undetectable deepfakes to fool the public while denying such a thing is possible.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoRegarding point 2, I thought that at first, but am now less certain. If fake stuff is everywhere, it's true. But if people then gravitate to reputable sources, there's less reason to make fake stuff, decreasing the amount of fake stuff until the incentive towards reputation is gone again. There's going to be an equilibrium in there somewhere, but that may be weirder and less predictable than either end of the spectrum.