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Hmm. Somehow deepfake tech doesn’t worry me. Photography and the wysiwyg conditioning around images is only 150 years old. Before that paintings were obviously a fiction genre. We’ll easily de-condition. This is just an uninvention of a young invention.
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Deepfake Putin is here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom | AI-generated synthetic media is being used in a political ad campaign—not to disrupt the election, but to save it. technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/100
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Strongly disagree with this sentiment. IMO many of the gains in civil rights of the last 20 years in the US and elsewhere are due to cheap ubiquitous cameras. Rodney King was 1991. Sabrina Harman's camera at Abu Ghraib, no film to develop there. Immoral technology to make.
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Good point, but I’m betting a mix of cryptographic verification and forensics will take care of special cases like that. Arms race.
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No technology that destabilizes previously held stable & inviolable norms will not fail to leave societies in tumult. See Benedict Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’. In our age, for most average voters, videos are final proof of truth. Any deconditioning needs 2-3 generations.
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