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Deepfake videos

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Video evidence will be useless at some point in the not too distant future.
Then what?

What happens when you no longer can trust your eyes or ears to establish truth from fiction?

How will both the left and the right use this technology for political gain?




http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/ ... deepfakes/
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Re: Deepfake videos

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Here's a better example / warning about emerging AI video tech. Also shown on the cnn link above.
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/4/17 ... e-buzzfeed

I find this quite scary. In an age where the President's lawyer shouts "Truth isn't Truth," the ability to easily make totally convincing fake videos will undermine accuracy and prove the wildest conspiracy theories. As the tech improves it will become even more difficult to spot fakes. Notice when fake news is received, many people fiercely latch onto it and become impervious / oblivious to counter-evidence. When it becomes difficult to trust any evidence at all...we are going to become beyond ridiculous...
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