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Rumors are not a new social pattern. We've handled them fine so far. Your discomfort is not enough reason to stop the free speech of everyone else. It never wa
by thomastjeffery 4y ago
Rumors are not a new social pattern. We've handled them fine so far.
Your discomfort is not enough reason to stop the free speech of everyone else. It never was, and never will be.
The most effective way to deal with the damage of deepfakes is to make them ubiquitous and accessible. The more familiar people are with the ability to create deepfake content, the more prepared they are to think critically and distrust it.
The average person already knows that still images aren't flawless evidence. The world didn't fall apart after the first release of Photoshop.
- croo 4y agoIs there any tool that can safely spot and decide between a picture of a deep fake and of a real one? So far the most reliable tool for that was a human moderator. With the new era of generated images there is no way to tell. You will simply have to distrust every image you see on the web.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoContext. The more insulated a person is from the surrounding context of a video, the less leverage they have to determine its validity. It's just like speech: the farther gossip spreads, the less trustworthy it becomes.