Deep fakes are a lot work when the newsmedia is largely not held accountable in the first place.
there are people falling for youtube Elon Musk deepfake Tesla scam streams
Yeah, I came accross one of those a few weeks ago. Was obvious within 10 seconds but only because they leaned too hard on the scam.
The danger of it was no one knowing what is real and we are already there .
The so-called Information Age is already a series of bubble quasi-realities and such technology only makes those bubbles drift further apart. It's easy to find "evidence" for whatever people want to believe already that confirms what they want to be true. It will only get easier over time until and unless the whole thing collapses.
there's going to be like a million subjective realities. kind of like the eternal inflationary cosmological model but for humanity. so i guess your collapse will be our vacuum metastability event.
because the biggest recent scandal w.r.t. to doctored footage was that slowed down recording of nancy pelosi, which can be done with technology we've had for the past 40 years, and you don't need to be stanley fucking kubrick to pull it off, compared to that, deepfaking is just vanity
Legit, MI6 reported Chinese tracking chips on the bottom of some British MP's cars. Absolutely ludicrous. What the fuck would China even want that information for? Why risk anything at all just to see that some doddering old removed is going between parliament and their London flat?
IIRC China recently discussed implementing laws requiring AI imagery to be marked in some way to distinguish it, the reddit brigade ofc responded by going "höhö they're just doing this so they can mark any dissent as AI fakery".
We already live in a post truth, Post™ Raisin Bran, post apocalyptic society
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It's mostly used in porn these days. There were some improvements in it which generated discussions on whether it was no different than crude photoshops. But AI art has mostly taken the spotlight since it's gotten much better in a relatively short amount of time.
It's just used in movies to de-age actors or to insert President Reagan in tv show dream sequences.
still happening, worse now even. but noones gonna put a stop to it when theres money involved
We got bored and moved on to the next manmade horror beyond our comprehension. It's still a potential problem, but eventually people get numb to it and move on to focus on the next thing in the unending avalanche of nightmarish horror that is life in the 21st century. Plus, with Q-anon, it probably doesn't seem as impressive that you can make a video of Barack Obama confessing to murder when millions of people publicly believe in the wildest shit.
Like did they need deepfakes to do a complete 180 on Ukraine from dysfunctional Nazi infested corrupt shithole to shining bastion of democracy fighting a totally unprovoked defensive war against bolshevofascist oppression?
There was Zens' "hacked police database" of pictures of Uyghurs supposedly being detained which was widely reported on for a minute, BBC and the intercept at a cursory Google search, and I'm sure others too.
Some of these are such obvious AI generated fakes I don't know how they got through. At the least the numbers are padded.
Last time this came up on here there were some reasonable objections, such as "not everyone will look like Beyonce" which is true, but out of 2800 people how many will have such incredibly severe scoliosis as many of these images seem to show? And then there are a few where it even does the half glasses half no glasses thing, or a bit of hair texture detached from the person's head entirely, or the one undeniable fake where the older guy's head comes out of his chest and there is an impossible shadow pattern between his neck and shirt collar.
Edit: I tracked that one down.
Take a good long look at that guy's neck and explain to me how so many mainstream news networks reported on this shit for months uncritically.
