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Personally I think this might be a good thing. The alternative is a squeaky clean politician that has no character, mistakes, or experiences. > I guess. If, sa

Personally I think this might be a good thing. The alternative is a squeaky clean politician that has no character, mistakes, or experiences. > I guess. If, say, a US adversary creates a great-looking video of the US president doing/saying something really heinous, that has the potential to inflame the world long before the truth can get its boots on. By the time this becomes possible, it will be widespread knowledge that deepfakes exist.

SamBam 6y ago
It's already possible. Look at the Tom Cruise deepfakes. It just requires the power to get a great actor of similar build, and lots of processing power, both of which are within the reach of a state, easily. And I don't think knowing the deepfakes exists will convince everyone. Plenty of fake photos already get passed around on Facebook and what-not, even though Photoshop has existed for decades.
Majestic121 6y ago
Even with widespread knowledge that deepfakes exists, you can still make credible videos of people that damages them. For example, picture a video of Trump saying in private committee 'I want to fuck that nigress'. That would be extremely heinous, and probably be a fake, but can you be 100% sure from a president that also said 'grab them by the pussy' ? The line between real and fake news is becoming more and more tenuous.
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