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Such a system will always suffer from false positives and false negatives. On a more positive note, when deepfakes become a problem, we will see the emergence
by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Such a system will always suffer from false positives and false negatives.
On a more positive note, when deepfakes become a problem, we will see the emergence of a culture where unsigned authoritative content is not paid any attention.
- kibwen 6y ago> we will see the emergence of a culture where unsigned authoritative content is not paid any attention If current events are any indication, that culture will only emerge 30 years after the tech becomes widely usable, and in the interim will lead to absolute chaos in the form of weaponized disinformation.
- totetsu 6y agoIt could be built into Youtube or twitter to pop up a little "this could be a fake voice" banner
- mywittyname 6y agoThis is a big issue! Lots of bad things happen, and they are only surfaced because the person in question didn't notice the surreptitious recording. When deep fakes becomes a problem, it will give these people plausible deniability and they can just reject it as "fake news."
- mycall 6y agoThen someone needs to get ahead of this and either (1) detect these deep fake recordings or (2) create trusted channels that avoids them.
- underwater 6y agoPhotoshop has existed for a long time, but people still take photos at face value.
- mhh__ 6y agoPhotos were being doctored long before then, even. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union#Censorship_of_historical_photographs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
- Gibbon1 6y agoI'm reminded of a comment by someone that studied the old Eugenics movement. Mentioned finding that one of the major books on the subject the author had carefully edited photo's of 'degenerate people' to look even more crude an unintelligent. Also photographer friend of mine said; a great photographer doesn't need to Photoshop anything to lie to you.
- GrantZvolsky 6y ago> Also photographer friend of mine said; a great photographer doesn't need to Photoshop anything to lie to you. I couldn't agree more if they used the word lie in the more general sense as a synonym of deception. The availability of fakes may not become a problem because the most effective deception doesn't involve telling untruths. To give an example, suppose Russia Today and Fox News report on the same event. There's a set of facts. RT picks a subset and reports it from their point of view. Fox picks another subset and presents their view. The resulting articles may give readers vastly different interpretation of the event and no untruths had to be involved.