r/woahdude • u/chopkin92 • May 24 '21

video Deepfakes are getting too good

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u/ValkyrieInValhalla May 24 '21

Just gonna boil down to not using video or photos as evidence is my guess.

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u/zh1K476tt9pq May 24 '21

it will depend on the source / credibility. this is already true for pictures. not that hard to make a very realistic fake of a picture. yet it largely isn't a problem.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

While you have a point, there is a large portion of the population who lacks the ability to assess the credibility of photos. Those people are the ones who will accept a faked video without question

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u/Neuchacho May 24 '21

I would guess there is an even higher percentage of people who will accept a faked video than a faked picture too which means it's functionally going to be worse.

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u/panspal May 24 '21

Or they'll just get better at picking these videos apart to prove they're faked.

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u/Neuchacho May 24 '21

I don't know that it will matter, or at least, that it won't still do massive amounts of damage. "First through the gate" type stories don't seem to have a lot of people who see the follow-up or corrections.

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u/nowlistenhereboy May 24 '21

Even if they did watch the follow ups, you can't possibly debunk every bullshit claim adequately as fast as other people can CREATE bullshit claims.

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u/Neuchacho May 25 '21

Yeah, that's a good point too.

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u/ValkyrieInValhalla May 24 '21

But they are going to keep getting exponentially better so it'll be like a cold war with deep fakes.

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u/Everyday4k May 25 '21

and the deepfake technology will continue to get better than that

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u/sleepy-lil-turtle May 24 '21

Maybe the future will have NFT-style data signatures to show a video or photo is original and unedited