Re:High-tech deception of ‘deepfake’ videos
by pdkl95 on Monday July 02, 2018 @03:30PM
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> it totally removes the ability of a random citizen witness to capture evidence
The police/etc have the same problem.
> putting the power of deepfakes in the hands of ordinary people is going to make everybody a less credible witness, no?
"Ordinary people" have a major advantage: parallelism and redundancy. Making one fake and disseminating it to many people is efficient and cheap. Faking many videos in a way that avoids easily discovered contradictions is very hard. Evidence always needs to be corroborated.
The police/etc have the same problem.
> putting the power of deepfakes in the hands of ordinary people is going to make everybody a less credible witness, no?
"Ordinary people" have a major advantage: parallelism and redundancy. Making one fake and disseminating it to many people is efficient and cheap. Faking many videos in a way that avoids easily discovered contradictions is very hard. Evidence always needs to be corroborated.