Re:South Park creators have new political satire series with...
by oehpr on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:07PM
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As a side note regarding the money: My understanding is they had formed a studio to make a deep faked movie some time ~2019? I think? But covid rolled around and the studio dissolved. They took advantage of the contacts and assets they had initially made to produce this youtube video. They think it might be the most expensive youtube video ever made.
Re:South Park creators have new political satire series with...
by tomtomtom777 on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:36PM
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Maybe if we start the habit of signing one's own appearances, this at some day will make unsigned video considered unreliable.
But I guess this is wishful thinking given that we don't even generally sign written comments yet.
Basically, the ability to fake any video means that other data is needed to prove that the person/events in the video was in fact the person/events that that video is claimed to depict.
Other proof, other measurements of the same events, etc.
Deep fakes mean people will know they can't trust their eyes, they need to think critically. That's been true for a while, but now they'll know it.
Which I presume is why Parker/Stone are doing this now, other than the obvious (make money). They're going to force people to recognize this is possible and how perfect the fake can be.