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I confess I don’t get the existential concern around deepfakes. Can anyone explain it to me? I imagine we’ll have a few incidents where deepfakes are taken too seriously, as we get used to them. But we’ll learn and adapt pretty quickly, as we did with Photoshop. Yes/no/maybe?
... completely agree here. There seems to be a sense of... people can be manipulated to falling for a Wag the Dog type situation, I don’t think deepfakes gives you more of an edge than anything that exists today to push propaganda. Is video that much better that static images?
Like... I feel like @PessimistsArc here, but we had the same crisis in the early 90s about Photoshop:https://www.newsweek.com/when-photographs-lie-206894 …
that's the new york times, not someone actually being concerned
fine point
I think still images are just fundamentally less convincing than video, and plenty of people already un-thinkingly shared photoshopped pictures of people they hate. It only takes one video making it onto breaking news and not being debunked to spark an international incident.
I also think a lot of it is the latent puritanism that exists in a lot of parts of our culture and the idea that you could have convincing video of anyone doing any sex act is shocking to a lot of people
I think it’s just a love for more sophistication among the more educated/read. People who think they can’t be fooled by memes
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