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I don't think we're anywhere near peak. The potential of deepfake videos - and not realistic ones necessarily, but memey reaffirments ala many photoshops - is m
by anonymousab 6y ago
I don't think we're anywhere near peak. The potential of deepfake videos - and not realistic ones necessarily, but memey reaffirments ala many photoshops - is massive and heavily underutilized compared to where they could be. And that's just one small dimension of lightly explored territory.
If anything, this cycle has simply shown that there is massive merit in investing heavily in brazen manipulation techniques.
We ain't seen nothing yet.
- SerLava 6y agoIn the long term, Deepfake won't make people believe in fake videos, it will just make all confidence in video evidence disappear. People will trust some fake videos until they see stunningly realistic videos of themselves hanging out with Hitler, or whatever. Later we will have some video devices that use some kind of encryption and network connectivity to validate frames of video faster than they could be post-processed, creating trustworthy video. However, crazy people will just say the organizations running the validation are illegitimate.
- JKCalhoun 6y ago> it will just make all confidence in video evidence disappear You don't see a problem with that? Why stop there, why have confidence in anything any longer? Earth is flat, earth is round? Who knows, both are likely.
- antibuddy 6y agoVideo material is going to lose its value, like many other kinds of evidence before. Just think about your own judgement about pictures nowadays and you can probably apply it to videos in 10-20 years. Neither of them will lose all of their value as evidence, but they will be adjusted as technology is going forward.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoA lot of people are going to fall for the con before we get to that point, unfortunately.
- entropicdrifter 6y agoIn the long run I think you're correct, but just looking at how poorly the Boomers and even Gen Xers are adjusting to modern forms of media, I'd say it's safe to assume it will take a generation or even two before media literacy with regards to video is properly adjusted among the general public, at which point, who knows what kind of tech will be available?
- dashundchen 6y agoI'd like to think younger people would be able to verify sources or discern misinformation, but I don't have much hope. A scroll through /r/all on reddit will show you millennial and gen Z audiences getting whipped up into a frenzy with fake or out-of-context tweets or posts all the time.
- perched_robin 6y agoA blessed return to the time when people only trusted what was right in front of them. Large-scale media distribution networks are a pox on the savannah-heuristic mind.
- rightbyte 6y agoWhy do you think deep fakes would be a problem? It just makes it cheap. Any serius actor can make a video of someone doing something that might look real since years.
- SerLava 6y agoWhat? No that's horrible, the problem is obvious.
- grumio 6y agoI was expecting to see a realistic convincing deepfake before the election, but this did happen: a video was faked making it look like Biden addressed a crowd as if they were in a different state. Pretty lame as far as fake videos go, but it plays into the "Biden is senile" narrative... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/video-altered-to-make-it-look-like-biden-greeted-wrong-state-joe-biden-minnesota-florida-candidate-audience-b1514789.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...