With Deepfakes, You Can’t Believe Your Eyes
Seeing is no longer believing. Welcome to the world of deepfakes.
Video-editing software has advanced to the point that it’s no longer just the movie studios who can make the impossible seem real (think Luke Skywalker’s recent Mandalorian cameos).
Made with equipment available to the general public, deepfakes can appear to the casual observer to be an actual recording of a real person and event.
In truth, it’s a manipulated—or, in some cases, entirely fabricated—digital movie file. A series of ones and zeros designed to deceive.
With a deepfake video, it’s possible to portray someone doing or saying something that never happened. The implications are obvious and troubling.
It’s easy to imagine a deepfake video sullying someone’s reputation at work or school. In the hands of a bully, a phony video could expose a classmate to embarrassment and ridicule. We are in an era in which you can no longer believe your eyes. Learn more here.
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h/t Joe O.
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Tom O
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I like articles like this. They do their level best to try to disprove the value of eye witnesses and CCTV footage. Why we go to such extents to try to make people distrust what they see is beyond me, but here is a perfect example of how to make justice to be served more difficult than it ought to be. Yes, this is a real issue because there is more profit it defeating justice than there is in supporting it, and money, sadly, drives our society in its death-spiral.
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