Somebody is almost certainly pitching deepfakes [+] as the “ultimate in personalized advertising” and that is almost certainly going to happen. [+] A deep learning application which is very good at replacing faces in still images or video with a target’s face.
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That’s not science fiction that is a hackathon project now, thanks to the ubiquity of cameraphones, Facebook allowing you to tie identifiers to arbitrarily large photo corpora, and all the CPU power you could ever want at AWS.
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A variation: Convincing simulcra of Dad: “I’ve always wanted the best for you, Patrick. That’s why I want you to buy life insurance from Aflac.” (It will probably start with far more marginal firms but if it works and isn’t illegalized well look who spends billions on TV ads.)
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I would argue that fake news videos of politicians saying things they shouldnt or maybe inciting wars would be the worst case here
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Disagree, actors replaced by Nicolas Cage is the really seriously scary cyberpunk dystopia. https://www.reddit.com/user/derpfakes
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I don't know if you're referencing this but I heard that was a car sales technique. On a test drive, they ask "Is this the vehicle you could see yourself driving?" and the metacognition (imagining what one is doing) allegedly fries peoples' brains
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More dystopian still I think when they show this to your friends and family. "Hey, everyone you know drives a Chevy!" All ads depict members of your social group in ways tuned to provoke FOMO, jealousy, or w/e
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the cyberpunk dystopian use case is writing a bot that scrapes public facebook photos an then automatically blackmails users with faked compromising photos
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"Can you picture a video of a US President declaring nuclear war against a belligerent Korean leader?" is my arguably dystopian use case with unforeseen consequences
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I found the Nic Cage fakes the best result of this so far :D
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Joke's on them, I can't even stand looking at myself in the mirror sometimes
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