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?
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Some examples of the concern:pic.twitter.com/7hLZPdA5zg
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... 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?
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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 …1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
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Yesss. That’s the article I didn’t know I was looking for :)
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