Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552

Re:Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552 by jml7c5 on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:10AM (#21803516)

I don't think it's so much that people will be fooled by fake video, as that people can no longer rely on video as evidence. Up until now, video has been the gold standard of "proof" that an event happened. Quotes, photos, and (to an extent) audio have been fakeable for a long time, and they are mistrusted accordingly. And while CGI has slowly made it harder to spot fake events, videos of speech remained mostly safe.

It's won't upend the world, but we are losing a hugely helpful tool that has been relied upon for 60 years.

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Re:Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552 by mrec on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:24AM (#21803663)

It'll certainly be weakened, but I don't think it'll necessarily have to be discarded altogether. The need now will be for processes and tools to guarantee the provenance of a video.

The technology to fake paper ballots is trivial, but they still (mostly) work fine for elections, because we've developed strict rules for how they need to be handled in order to retain credibility.

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