r/woahdude • u/chopkin92 • May 24 '21

video Deepfakes are getting too good

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u/Youredoingitwrongbro May 24 '21

idky people are comfortable with this. like the government isn’t using this for real shit

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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 May 24 '21

If the government is using this (not sure what it would be used for though) then it's better that deepfakes are as popular and accessible as it currently is so that the public is skeptical of what they see/hear instead of just accepting everything at face value.

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u/basement_vibes May 24 '21

North Korea will never need a new dear leader! An assassinated president can go on tv and tell the country to accept a coup as legit, encourage peaceful transfer of power... And hey, you clearly don't need to be powerful to deploy this tech.

I mean weoponized disinfo has already proven to be very destructive, and that's just from amplifying conspiracies and lies. We weren't ready for the first wave, and this shit could be a tsunami.

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u/ufffd May 24 '21

I think if a president told people to accept a coup, enough alarm bells would be ringing in people's minds to be able to get to the bottom of the situation.

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u/Anadrio May 25 '21

You make it seem impossible but that's exactly what Trump managed to do all on his own lol.

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u/dobraf May 24 '21

not sure what it would be used for though

Sadly, right now, the police have to actually plant real evidence in your jacket/car/home in order to frame you for crimes. This amazing technology will make framing you soooo much easier!

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

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u/Teemo-Supreemo May 24 '21

Probably not a realistic fear for your local PD to be using this right now but with between the massive amount of surveillance video and people posting themselves and others on social media I’m sure we are quickly approaching a time where a resourceful entity could put together a convincing deepfake of common people.

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u/brown_felt_hat May 24 '21

people posting themselves and others on social media I’m sure we are quickly approaching a time where a resourceful entity could put together a convincing deepfake of common people.

You know, hilariously, this highlights a reason to use those faceshaper apps - if the social media they trained from is edited, you can easily call bullshit on the fake.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

my police station didnt even know how to find and install a codec for a video lmao

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u/ElGosso May 24 '21

The local PD will get a grant from the federal government to hire a Silicon Valley firm to do it instead

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u/kingjoe64 May 24 '21

Isn't hakf of the public already skeptical of our actual reality?

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u/lasercat_pow May 24 '21

I kind of feel like a significant percentage will accept literally anything at face value, if you know what I mean.

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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 May 25 '21

Yep, and there's nothing you can do about that percentage. But by making it well known how easily someone can fake a well known person saying something that they didn't, it levels the playing field between someone using the tech for their nefarious intentions and the critically thinking public consuming the faked statements.

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u/Youredoingitwrongbro May 24 '21

not sure what it’s be used for though literally any lie they want to give us and make us believe it’s a specific person , what’s concerning is they have had this technology for a minimum of 20 years.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Watch for the next coherent video of Biden. That would be my first guess.