Ctrl Shift Face: A growing ‘deepfakes’ YouTube channel

Re:Ctrl Shift Face: A growing ‘deepfakes’ YouTube channel by pessimizer on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:51PM (#20055246)

Or the end goal of the "fake news" scare in general (not to say that there aren't sites that specialize in making up news.) To combat "fake news," you start whitelisting "true news," and defining it by the influence of the provider, not the content. In the end, you just end up with state news sources.

related: It's telling that "factchecking" isn't a dialogue between various authorities, but instead just a bunch of weird private judicial systems with no appeals courts, selected and assigned to specific stories by internet aggregation intermediaries. Eventually, this can't help but shake out as stories being divided into two categories: factual and banned from distribution.

I sadly feel that we're about 10 years away from licensing journalists with a security clearance-type process that must be sponsored by an approved outlet. The PropOrNot at the Post shook me a bit.

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Re:Ctrl Shift Face: A growing ‘deepfakes’ YouTube channel by fuzz4lyfe on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:37PM (#20057301)

1st amendment won't allow that, but then again people seem to want to throw out the 2nd without a constitutional convention so it's not impossible. I can see the arguments now, "it's the freedom of the press, are you the press? Then why do you have a own a fully automatic printing press?"

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