Deepfakes are the latest moral panic, but the issues about consent, fake news, and political manipulation they raise are not new. They are also not issues that can be solved at a tech level.
A deepfake is essentially a video of something that didn’t happen, but made to look extremely realistic. That might sound like a basic case of ‘photoshopping’, but deepfakes go way beyond this. By training AI algorithms on vast libraries of photographs taken of famous people, the videos produced in this way are eerily real, and worryingly convincing.
As a result, plenty of analysts are worried that deepfakes might be used for political manipulation, or even to start World War 3.
Solving these problems is going to be hard, in part because they are an extension of problems that are already evident in the rise of fake news, faked videos, and misinformation…
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Posted by: Sam Bocetta |
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August 14, 2019 at 09:09AM
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