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This is all interesting but I fail to see that the risk for fraud is significantly elevated due to deep fakes. It has always been easy enough to make plausible
by worldsayshi 5y ago
This is all interesting but I fail to see that the risk for fraud is significantly elevated due to deep fakes. It has always been easy enough to make plausible material that "proves" something. To avoid fraud you need to be wary of the source and weight the new information based on previous interactions with the source by you or by people that you trust. Nothing is really new in this context right?
- leppr 5y agoWhat's new is the democratization of falsified images, not their existence. Nowadays, local police investigating a small crime would never doubt the veracity of photo or video evidence. If they are provided video evidence of someone committing a burglary, they won't do advanced analysis on the image before sentencing the person. This won't fool the FBI investigating the murder of a minister, but many authorities with less resources have to rely on video evidence. Very soon, anyone will be able to fabricate incriminating evidence with little effort. Unless tools catch up, this could become a serious problem.