The big takeaway here is that like technology security in general, this is an arms race. Now that new markers specific to synthesized images and video have been discovered, I'm sure the next round...
The big takeaway here is that like technology security in general, this is an arms race. Now that new markers specific to synthesized images and video have been discovered, I'm sure the next round of deepfakes will have better 3-D image and lighting masks.
Absent easily searchable, independently maintained, hashed data archives with tamper-proof time, date and GPS stamps, pictures may be worth a thousand lies.
I haven't really followed deepfakes since I first heard about them and had no idea they were already so far along with video. I assumed it was still primarily in the domain of still images. The...
I haven't really followed deepfakes since I first heard about them and had no idea they were already so far along with video. I assumed it was still primarily in the domain of still images.
The Obama video they linked was surprisingly convincing. I mean, I could tell there was something off about it that I couldn't put my finger on, and the voice sounded more like an impression than his real voice, but I might have only identified those things simply because I went into it knowing it was fake and was therefore primed for disbelief. If I hadn't known it going in, or if he had been saying something less ridiculous, or if they had slipped in only a sentence or two into an otherwise real video? I don't know that I would have caught it.
When we can no longer trust video and audio, our interest in media, except perhaps for fictional content, will be greatly diminished. But this will require a generation of people aging out of the...
When we can no longer trust video and audio, our interest in media, except perhaps for fictional content, will be greatly diminished. But this will require a generation of people aging out of the magic belief in video as reality for it to happen. In the meantime, human activity will possibly become insignificant to the future inheritors of the earth, algorithms and other artificial intelligence. These may or may not be conscious, but will have learned to act like they are. Whether these future masters of the world are digital or analogue, machine or meat, makes little difference. I'm almost certain that Margaret Atwood has predicted this in her novels.
The big takeaway here is that like technology security in general, this is an arms race. Now that new markers specific to synthesized images and video have been discovered, I'm sure the next round of deepfakes will have better 3-D image and lighting masks.
Absent easily searchable, independently maintained, hashed data archives with tamper-proof time, date and GPS stamps, pictures may be worth a thousand lies.
I haven't really followed deepfakes since I first heard about them and had no idea they were already so far along with video. I assumed it was still primarily in the domain of still images.
The Obama video they linked was surprisingly convincing. I mean, I could tell there was something off about it that I couldn't put my finger on, and the voice sounded more like an impression than his real voice, but I might have only identified those things simply because I went into it knowing it was fake and was therefore primed for disbelief. If I hadn't known it going in, or if he had been saying something less ridiculous, or if they had slipped in only a sentence or two into an otherwise real video? I don't know that I would have caught it.
When we can no longer trust video and audio, our interest in media, except perhaps for fictional content, will be greatly diminished. But this will require a generation of people aging out of the magic belief in video as reality for it to happen. In the meantime, human activity will possibly become insignificant to the future inheritors of the earth, algorithms and other artificial intelligence. These may or may not be conscious, but will have learned to act like they are. Whether these future masters of the world are digital or analogue, machine or meat, makes little difference. I'm almost certain that Margaret Atwood has predicted this in her novels.