Posted on 05/30/2020 4:31:50 AM PDT by Drango
Last month during ESPN’s hit documentary series The Last Dance, State Farm debuted a TV commercial that has become one of the most widely discussed ads in recent memory. It appeared to show footage from 1998 of an ESPN analyst making shockingly accurate predictions about the year 2020.
As it turned out, the clip was not genuine: it was generated using cutting-edge AI. The commercial surprised, amused and delighted viewers.
What viewers should have felt, though, was deep concern. ~snip
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
They will do their damnedest. Of that we can be certain.
deepfake
Terrifying.
Lucifer loves electronics; he especially loves videos.
1) Donald Trump, in jerky footage, with slightly "off" sound, seemingly asking Putin to intervene in the 2020 election, "like last time". The President will sound a bit more like Alec Baldwin than Donald Trump.
2) Clear footage of Obama, Hillary, Biden and Brennan discussing surveillance of the Trump campaign and the steps needed to frame him for some sort of bad interaction with Russia. They will decide on the term "collusion" that will be pushed in the media.
Joe Biden will declare that the video of him nolesting little girls is all a deep fake
Speak for yourself.
Many of us ARE prepared and have been for years.
The answer would be for all broadcast and internet organizations to have absolute liability for all content aired over their platforms. They would be responsible for securely verifying the accuracy of all content not explicitly labelled as fictional. This would presumably require that anyone generating such content be explicitly and publicly identified (no anonymity), and that all such providers provide full documentation on all sourcing.
Prudent content generators and providers would probably want to get a release from all people whose images are used, or at least preview the content with them and give them an opportunity to respond. How fundamentally would this change the business model? Perhaps less than one might think. Honest labelling is the issue. People who are doing fakes know perfectly well that they are doing fakes. To avoid being drawn, quartered, and burned at the stake, they would have to label their fakes as fiction, or perhaps "parody." Full disclosure is not the end of the world. They could still do what they do. They just couldn't lie about it anymore.
Before anyone thinks this is too onerous … remember that this is exactly what respectable news organizations used to do routinely, before ambush journalism and trickery through selective editing became normalized.
In other words, the gunslinging days would be over. Serious, enforceable journalistic standards would have to reemerge across all platforms. Fictional interpretations of historical events, parodies and editorial comment would have to be clearly labelled.
And the courts would have to be prepared to enforce the limits, even when someone like Donald Trump is the victim of a smear.
Taking another step back: serious people would learn to distrust all visual media. We would rely on print, with authors clearly identified, for anything important.
How? Imagine a week before the election a deepfake video comes out with one of the candidates saying "F***ing N***ers". It will go viral... How are you prepared???
“They continue to debauch our language ... “
And more than the latest protest, it will diminish the MSM.
“Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Marx ... Groucho
Well, he may try, but it will come out as “the deep, you know, the thing...”
I’m sure any fake video of consequence in question can be exposed by forensics.
Of course you have the media and insurgents paid to jump to all kinds of conclusions, accusations, condemnations and verdicts leading to massive destruction before an investigation even has a chance to barely begin. We are witnessing it now with the Floyd incident. You even have conservatives here on FR that had the policeman convicted and sounded like they would be more than happy to participate in a good old vigilante hanging without a trial before the victim’s body was even cold based on a small amount of video. Very scary to see but we’ve been seeing the same thing over and over since the Duke LaCrosse team incident where the public had been whipped into such a frenzy they would have lynched every one of those boys with no trial at all based on what a paid whore said. Then when the investigation happens, facts often come out that dispel the original narrative and a lot of people look like fools.
I can see deep fakes wreaking havoc on society based on what we see repeatedly happen. Jump to conclusions and frenzy first, investigate later.
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