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> It’s going to get to the point where you can’t even say in a court room “well we have video of him doing this”. The fact that deepfakes will exist will erode

> It’s going to get to the point where you can’t even say in a court room “well we have video of him doing this”. The fact that deepfakes will exist will erode confidence in even those things that are true. At the same time it will add additional fake situations to the conversation. You cannot underestimate the global political ramifications of this. If you think the amount of video manipulation was bad enough this cycle in the 2020 presidential election? Imagine a few years from now when video's are being put out by political operatives and people with nefarious agenda's with impunity all over social media. This sort of thing absolutely terrifies me since you can start to twist reality to whatever you want and influence people in ways we never thought possible. I really feel like the genie is out of the bottle and this has the potential to become a very dangerous tool for people with bad intentions.

m_ke 6y ago
It's worse than that, politicians will be able to credibly claim that anything that's not advantageous to them is fake. We'll end up in a world where a tin pot dictator like Trump can go out and say that anything he said or did in the past was not real.
cm2187 6y ago
The other way round. Any shocking video trending on twitter will start with a -100 credibility as people will think "just another deepfake". You are assuming people will have never heard of these deepfakes. Sure there are still a few grannies today who have never heard of photoshop. But your average twitter user?
- mwigdahl 6y ago
  I think that's overoptimistic. A shocking video trending on Twitter that reinforces some population's existing beliefs and biases about the subject will find a ready audience of believers. Every piece of controversial video content will have a group loudly screaming "TRUTH!" at the same time as another group screaming "FAKE!", and it will just amplify the social polarization we're already experiencing.

m_ke 6y ago

It's worse than that, politicians will be able to credibly claim that anything that's not advantageous to them is fake. We'll end up in a world where a tin pot dictator like Trump can go out and say that anything he said or did in the past was not real.

cm2187 6y ago

The other way round. Any shocking video trending on twitter will start with a -100 credibility as people will think "just another deepfake". You are assuming people will have never heard of these deepfakes. Sure there are still a few grannies today who have never heard of photoshop. But your average twitter user?

mwigdahl 6y ago
I think that's overoptimistic. A shocking video trending on Twitter that reinforces some population's existing beliefs and biases about the subject will find a ready audience of believers. Every piece of controversial video content will have a group loudly screaming "TRUTH!" at the same time as another group screaming "FAKE!", and it will just amplify the social polarization we're already experiencing.