16th February 2020, 10:42 AM
(15th February 2020, 3:59 PM)Weltall Wrote: >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 very point I was getting at. The issue isn't our ability to detect so much as public confidence. At that point, video evidence of say Bloomberg basically just being a smarter Trump won't matter any more. Video evidence of ANYTHING won't matter any more. It'll go back to the before times, when you needed a plurarity of first person accounts to verify things.
For now. I see this being the next major technological arms race. The real problem is, we consider recordings to be secure and reliable (in that tampering with a recording leaves clear traces most of the time). Deep fakes remove this certainty. Can you trust the video? Can you trust the people who insist it's real? Can you trust the ones who insist it's fake? Will the average person ever be able to independently verify?
What if someone actually does deep fake Trump? Our existing political views will largely determine whether or not we believe 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)