Jason Antic

1/ DeepFakes will play the role that any other misinformation does these day, low tech or otherwise. That is, those of us who are already careful to vet information will adapt accordingly. And those who are eager to feed their own confirmation bias will gobble it up.https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1195770780744912896 …

2/ In other words, we’re already way past the point where we need to be addressing misinformation in a world where believing in “flat earth” and general stark denial of science and reality is really happening for a large segment of the population.

3/ DeepFakes are just another delivery mechanism of misinformation. Focusing on the flashy technology rather than the fertile grounds that allow for it any sort of misinformation generally to flourish, is a mistake.

I do think that weaponized technology is worth talking about. More sophisticated technology makes it cheaper to do harm at scale. Placing the sole burden of fighting misinformation on the individual is not only unfair but unrealistic.

I'm not disagreeing with you on the unique potency and scale, and that it's unrealistic to depend on individuals to fight this alone. But what I'm getting at is if you just fight the technology, you're fighting a whack-a-mole game and it's just an arms race much like captcha.

I agree that demonizing the technology both hide the systems that exploit and weaponize it and create FUD that does more harm than good (although it makes for good clickbait which is I guess why this happens in the first place heh)

Yeah that's a great point there too- the click bait and FUD is a bit of a distraction considering the current climate. It makes me think of the fashionable straws thing vs everything else that is utterly destroying the environment.