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ByteDance and TikTok have secretly built a deepfakes maker
- thrwaway69 7y agoZao (Chinese) deepfake face swap app in action: https://twitter.com/AllanXia/status/1168049059413643265 https://twitter.com/AllanXia/status/1168049059413643265 That looks good enough to make some people confused if it stopped doing beautification. I have mixed feelings. On one hand, such apps getting popular might start a debate on what constitutes as evidence and people should rethink before they believe anything online but majority won't have the involuntary stop and verify reaction, I don't think we even have time to do that with those infinite feed of content dominated by influencers, media and corporations. No one has any incentive, be it social media, [1] you, companies or politicians to make you immune to this. On the platform side, if politicians decided to offload the blame and work to them. I can see ton of shit show, censorship and basically private companies having more permission to determine what is truth and what isn't. Even if they remove it from bigger platforms, what about smaller ones? What about links? Do those have to be blacklisted after reporting? Maybe Twitter will need to become a publisher... with every platform following. I can't think of any reasonable way government will tackle it given its history and the incentives. What are our options? How do you make people verify the truth? How do you go against the flow? 1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/upshot/biased-news-media-or-biased-readers-an-experiment-on-trust.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/upshot/biased-news-media-...
- lerouxmlr 7y agoUse blockchain to record the hash of the original content, then if one has doubts on "truth" one can refer back to block chains original hash to see difference.