Everyone’s worried about deep fakes (which, admittedly are terrifying.) But as the current admin just demonstrated for the 1000th time, in terms of mass propaganda, the essential ingredient is a motivation to believe the lie not the quality of the forgery.
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Replying to @generativist
I think implicit reason people fear deep fakes is because it'll force them to engage with motivation of their political opponents instead of pointing to obvious forgeries to dismiss opponents as dumb & uninformed. Plus it reminds one how much we rely on authority & not content.
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Replying to @kaznatcheev
I was going to say the authority-solvent aspect seems new to mass...sensorium, I guess. Then, I realized I was tying that on twitter dot com...
6:06 AM - 8 Nov 2018
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