Posted on 09/14/2019 9:15:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Lots of people—including Congress—are worried about fake videos and imagery distorting the truth, purporting to show people saying and doing things they never said or did.
I’m part of a larger U.S. government project that is working on developing ways to detect images and videos that have been manipulated. My team’s work, though, is to play the role of the bad guy. We develop increasingly devious, and convincing, ways to generate fakes...
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If The Onion or Babylon Bee made an animated headline announcing who they were people would still post links to them as if real news.
“The whole truth” often gets shortchanged.
A lot of truth is irrelevant.
People will believe anything that reinforces their biases
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-you-can-t-trust-yourself?utm_source=pocket-newtab
It’s been clearly headed that way since at least ‘Contact’. The new phones with real-time cartooning/CGI show we are on the cusp of ‘live events’ being wholly false.
It also doesn’t help the other way that the media will widely declare things fake which aren’t - or aren’t fake in the way implied.
Haven’t you seen the commercials? “I believe smart news.”
Always thought they were airheads.
Just discovered deep fakes last night.
I don’t even know who Jennifer Lawrence is, but you are right, that video is creepy.
People will believe anything that reinforces their biases
Yes. The mainstream media demonstrates this every day with propaganda devoid of fact or truth. They rush to define narrative based on lies.
The “Gentle Giant” narrative from Ferguson remains the best example although there are many others. We have suffered years of our elected President being accused of all kinds of things that have been shown to be untrue and all they do is move on to the next fabricated story.
It is very dangerous and all of us want to quickly jump to conclusions based on incomplete data. It happens here on FR every day (myself included). The “media” plays this tune and since like-minded people tend to aggregate together to view news or discuss current events it is reinforced.
This is how we have a nation that sees two opposing “truths” about every issue and it is why civil and rational public discourse is rather pointless. This sad state of affairs benefits our politicians and media, but it is the enemy of truth.
You don’t need hi-tech fake video.
I can make up a name such as “International Surveys/Global Media Polling” and fake up a bunch of numbers to prove that, oh say Trump loses by 20 points against Pete Buttjudger. I make up all the internals so anyone who tries to analyze it can’t tell that the data was all made up, no one was called or actually surveyed. I push it out to all the blog sites which have no standards for verification but are hungry for content, as well as on social medial and before long someone will have it posted right here on FR and people will be commenting on it without regard for whether it is true or not.
Happens every day. I can’t prove the polls are faked but no one can prove they aren’t, either. It is unproveable. You rely on trust every time you read a poll, trusting that the company has the integrity to report actual poll results that have not been made up or adulterated. People worry about internals, and cross tabs, and sampling error but fail to ask the more fundamental question: is this even real?
You make a good point about fake polls. But in many cases you don’t even have to fake the numbers. All you have to do is slant the question a certain way, and you’ll get the results you want.
The gun control folks are particularly good at that.
In politics? That’s all you need to rule the world ... for as long as you can “keep it up”, so to speak.
... like-minded people tend to aggregate together to view news or discuss current events it is reinforced.
The Hall of Mirrors
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/open-gently/201504/do-you-ever-feel-you-live-in-hall-mirrors
Read through the article. Has some interesting points, but as it went along, I began to realize that if this article is completely accurate, then how can I even comment on the article, since all personal perception is totally biased?
In fact, those who wrote the article itself are also completely doused in their own reality and self perception - so, it the article really accurate or not? According to the article, we can’t really know.
This is like materialist atheists, like Richard Dawkins, who say there is nothing beyond what we can detect with our five senses, just the cold indifferent universe, we act only according to our DNA, we merely dance to our DNA - there is no evil or good.
Yet Dawkins and other materialistic atheists claim all religion, God, and Believers are immoral and evil.
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