1st October 2019, 4:49 PM
The very first thought I had when I heard about deep fake was this: "Oh great, now every single time a politician says or does something horrible on camera, everyone is going to cry out "deep fake, it's all just CG!". As evidence, flat earthers literally believe every single photo and video of the earth from space is CG, especially the ones before CG was ever detailed enough to make an image like that.
I'm apparently not alone in that fear. This is a tech we are not ready for, but even if the tech was erased right now, the knowledge that it's possible at all has already done all the damage.
I'm apparently not alone in that fear. This is a tech we are not ready for, but even if the tech was erased right now, the knowledge that it's possible at all has already done all the damage.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)