Landeigestalt · 4 answers · 4y
What are your thoughts on deepfake and related impersonation technology?
What are your thoughts on deepfake and related impersonation technology?
[08-22-19]
I feel like the idea has been put out there in a big way. Deep fakes are coming. Deep fakes are here. youtu.be/cQ54GDm1eL0
Maybe it's silly to think, but maybe it won't be a huge deal?
I want to say inevitably(?) there will have to be some stupid incident to wake people up. October 2020? 2024? There would have to be a thing where enough people believe it to make it an incident, but it can some how be disproven? Maybe some major network runs with it, but we're still just at the margin or they get something wrong that can be unverified.
To a point, this is more of the same. See action movies for the past 10+ years . We've seen things getting closer and closer.
Also so much news has been editing taking things out of context. I guess this is the danger. They don't 'need' deepfakes, but that could give them a big push.
If it gets too good it could become easier to frame people for crimes or even just defame their characters. In court, this could have the effect of convicting people who aren't guilty or of having to let more people off who are, depending on how quickly the skepticism of the court catches up with technology. Either way it'll make it more difficult to discern who's guilty and who's not, though maybe not impossible, depending on whether there will be subtle ways for experts to detect a fake.
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