12th February 2020, 2:53 PM
There's another good use for it. Studio level composition. In those scenarios having an ultra high detail audio is better, since you're relying on hardware that can spot the differences mere human ears can't.
The real problem with deep fakes isn't the deep fakes themselves though. We're still able to spot those AND train AI to spot the other AI's fakes. The real problem is that being able to directly show that someone is horrible with video evidence is going to stop working so long as someone can cry "deeeeeep faaaaaake!". It's coming. Just you wait and see. If Trump wins a second term, that's exatly what he's going to do any time someone confronts him with direct evidence he's lying. "That's a fake video. Computers made it. Get the google server, bring it to me and put it under my desk and plug it into my power strip I'll find it."
The real problem with deep fakes isn't the deep fakes themselves though. We're still able to spot those AND train AI to spot the other AI's fakes. The real problem is that being able to directly show that someone is horrible with video evidence is going to stop working so long as someone can cry "deeeeeep faaaaaake!". It's coming. Just you wait and see. If Trump wins a second term, that's exatly what he's going to do any time someone confronts him with direct evidence he's lying. "That's a fake video. Computers made it. Get the google server, bring it to me and put it under my desk and plug it into my power strip I'll find it."
"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)