The new master of deception: deepfakes.
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Posted by: Ihavenoname ®

03/15/2023, 15:46:32

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Just stumbled across a video (warning - vulgar language) of an AI-generated conversation between "presidents" playing Minecraft.

A deepfake is a form of altered or fabricated media that takes the voice and looks of a real person and generates fictitious contents based on the desires of a creator (or group).

Imagine the media using deepfakes to push their narrative (it's already used in one country). They are extremely hard to detect without intense scrutiny. Anyone can do this and fabricate false information with publicly available tools. And it can be posted anonymously too.

With the fast pace of technology, it's reasonable to assume that such deceptive tool could be deployed in the near future.






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heh All the more reason to...
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Posted by: LateForLunch ®

03/15/2023, 23:58:55

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...never believe anything we hear and only half of what we see. 
Maybe in light of these new developments, we should amend that truism to include never believing anything that we hear OR see unless it's from a VRS (verified reliable source). 

It was interesting what happened recently - someone pirated a Russian radio station and panicked the peasants with a false alert. Similar technology I believe. heh 

Welcome to the 21st century. All of the brutal violence of the 20th century with high-tech twists. 








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Agreed. Next thing you know, we enter some post-American dystopian nightmare.
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Posted by: Ihavenoname ®

03/16/2023, 02:00:49

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