Re:Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life
by jrockway on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:49PM
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> no VFX hoax ever convincingly impersonated Nixon
Because nobody really cares about Nixon. People fake UFO videos because they're clickbait. You can hit and run and make $10,000 on YouTube revenue before someone debunks you.
The reason political campaigns aren't using VFX to make their opponents look bad is because someone would eventually figure it out and the backlash would be immense. Additionally, it's not even necessary. People do fine planting conspiracy theories and taking advantage of people's disinterest in fact checking to say whatever they want, all without investing any effort in video production.
I predict that deepfakes will be nothing but a series of amusing "I can't believe they thought they could get away with that" stories.
Because nobody really cares about Nixon. People fake UFO videos because they're clickbait. You can hit and run and make $10,000 on YouTube revenue before someone debunks you.
The reason political campaigns aren't using VFX to make their opponents look bad is because someone would eventually figure it out and the backlash would be immense. Additionally, it's not even necessary. People do fine planting conspiracy theories and taking advantage of people's disinterest in fact checking to say whatever they want, all without investing any effort in video production.
I predict that deepfakes will be nothing but a series of amusing "I can't believe they thought they could get away with that" stories.