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I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how deepfakes (of voices and faces) are anything other than a dangerous weapon that a tiny group of people will p
by smt88 4y ago
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how deepfakes (of voices and faces) are anything other than a dangerous weapon that a tiny group of people will profit from.
There are no ethical use cases for these things other than resurrecting dead celebrities (which is itself morally fraught).
- DoingIsLearning 4y agoTransferable knowledge? We can all agree that nuclear weapons are a bad thing but much of today's Nuclear medicine and radiotherapy probably would not have matured without that primary defense funded research.
- smt88 4y agoThat's a pretty good answer, but it's only verifiable in retrospect. So far, we've seen *NNs used for bad things and utterly fail at good things (like increasing the accuracy of reading radiographs).