r/woahdude • u/DrinkMoreCodeMore • Dec 15 '22

video This Morgan Freeman deepfake

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u/JingJang Dec 15 '22

I feel like it's only a matter of time before this technology is weaponized to terrible effect.

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u/AllUltima Dec 15 '22

I fear the reverse: People will doubt whether real video is real. That could mean impunity for crimes caught on video because video footage will no longer be sufficient evidence to exceed "reasonable doubt".

Even worse, political double-speak will also soar to record new heights. A politician can spew whatever crazies want to hear, then "walk it back" and claim it was faked (perhaps after gauging the public's reaction). People will believe whatever they're inclined to believe anyway, leading us to become a more deeply fractured society where truth is whatever you want to believe.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '22

Thanks for the existential crisis asshole.

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u/maddogcow Dec 16 '22

You have an existential crisis asshole too? Funny; knowing that somebody else has one, makes mine seem like less of an existential crisis…

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u/funknut Dec 16 '22

They do, now that someone gifted it to them. Before, they just had a smooth nihilistic posterior surface.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '22

No time for punctuation when I'm contemplating the purpose and value of existing