A world where you never know if you're talking to another human being unless you're right in front of them.
You wouldn't be able to trust that it's your own mother on the phone. Every thread and chat may just be you talking to yourself through a pile of code. And god knows who that code's talking to. Photo, video evidence in court? Can't prove it's not real, your honor.
An artificial world. Everyone sequestered away into their own bespoke realities, separated by unbreakable walls of uncertainty.
uncritical support for china's mission to stop deepfakes
I thought China was requiring them to have watermarks? Which is not the same as stopping them. Also they shouldn't be stopped, in my opinion, they should be more regulated. They have tremendous power as a tool for pipelining special effects or making agitprop anonymously. We should attack the mode of production, not the instruments of production. The problem as always is the problem of ownership (of the means of production) accountability (for actions taken with those means) and transparency (of when those means are used). I understand the anxiety around this stuff, but there was also anxiety around 3D models becoming too lifelike back in the day.