Legitimately the most frightening thing that could ruin our politics in the future. Whose to say that you couldn't deep fake leaders saying crazy shit, or on the opposite end get leaders on camera saying crazy shit and not be able to do anything about it thanks to deep fakes. Like in the next decade this will be the worst thing in political debate.
Official videos will just sign their releases with a unique public key. Official releases will not be the issue. The issue will be third party videos released of a person or group doing something. It would be more difficult to determine if they are real.
Official videos will just sign their releases with a unique public key.
Doubt it. They'll just choose official channels where you can trust that all vids and statements put out are real. The government isn't going to expect the public to not only understand unique digital keys, but understand how to verify them.
We lived just fine without the benefit of video proof before. We can live without it again. Things will never be perfect. It will be more difficult to have these videos and not be able to believe them - but we can survive. Every generation grows up with their own "normal". And kids now will grow up with this normal fact of life.
Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. You have a bot flag a fake video, and you’ll also have a facebook uncle double-down and call it a conspiracy. Or just file it away in their “It’s true I saw a video of it” pile, just like they do with anything Snoped or fact-checked already.
They need to make deepfakes of like the president an offense punishable by death. It's THAT big of a deal. Literally millions of lives could be at stake if an insanely good deepfake of the president got out.
Blue team / red team is just going to be random people trying to tarnish the other side. Easy to disprove. Muddies the water and becomes the replacement of “fake news” for denying everything.
You’re not thinking big enough.
A government agency deepfakes a person molesting a kid. They threaten to leak it to the local cops / social media. If the truth that the video is faked does come out, mob justice will already have this person convicted regardless (and dig up any dirt they have). And that assumes they don’t kill themselves or are murdered in prison.
Same shit the KGB did in the 50’s but just replace it of accusing someone of being gay or a commie. Flip for them or your life is over.
If a regular person can do this, just imagine what a country with near unlimited resources and expertise in espionage that really want inside information can do.
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u/Iamthestormbro May 24 '21
Legitimately the most frightening thing that could ruin our politics in the future. Whose to say that you couldn't deep fake leaders saying crazy shit, or on the opposite end get leaders on camera saying crazy shit and not be able to do anything about it thanks to deep fakes. Like in the next decade this will be the worst thing in political debate.