Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th...
by ur-whale on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:21PM
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Do a startup that puts news on the blockchain. Include SHA512 of pictures and video of eyewitnesses of said piece of news.
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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th...
by chubasco on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:47PM
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I actually had a similar idea to discourage certain news outlets from posting inflammatory but misleading or untrue headlines and articles for clicks, and then later changing them to something more factually correct after the damage has been done.
Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th...
by shrimp_emoji on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:00PM
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What if a deepfake got in your blockchain?
Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th...
by ur-whale on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:48PM
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Good point, but at least for now, video deepfakes can still be detected via machine learning.
Also, deepfakes work well for replacing faces, but not yet for synthesizing actual videos of complex scenes (like crowds) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMZkLVBhcig
But then you're right, it won't take long before that's possible. Whether we can continue sniffing out deepfakes with ML is unclear.