A new app digitally superimposes women into videos…
No, it digitally superimposes people into videos.
Whilst being falsely inserted into porn is no doubt horribly embarrassing and possibly career-threatening, the bigger and far more dangerous issue is the possibility of being inserted into CCTV footage of crime.
“Liberty and justice threatened, women most affected” makes us look like self-absorbed fools.
LCarey Rowland
2 years ago
Maybe this is why ancient Law forbade idolotry, which is undue reverence to imagery.
However this tech metastasizes, its manipulative sorcery indicates a definite need for returning to text, or even script, for any humans who value truth and justice,
Andrew McDonald
2 years ago
Not sure that you can legitimately describe that choice as ‘Luddism’, with the pejorative overtones that word brings to the debate. If the tool/mechanism isn’t actually working (and the article is surely making that forecast for the Internet), then you throw it away and find another tool that will. That’s a progressive response, not Luddism. But in any case, what a mess this all is.
Jon Hawksley
2 years ago
Deep faking can not be stopped but at least the better it is the less anyone will believe any video is “real” and the easier it will be to brush it off as fake. Invasions into privacy and revenge porn will be less revalatory and therefore should be less painful because others will not react in a way that makes you feel ashamed. It might even lead to people realising that how they feel about themselves is more important to their well being than how they think other people regard them.
Galeti Tavas
2 years ago
no point in commenting, Unherd just deletes my posts…
Martin Smith
2 years ago
All digital imagery will be regarded as fake unless confirmed by other physical evidence and or witness statements. T’internet will die, hurrah.
No, it digitally superimposes people into videos.
Whilst being falsely inserted into porn is no doubt horribly embarrassing and possibly career-threatening, the bigger and far more dangerous issue is the possibility of being inserted into CCTV footage of crime.
“Liberty and justice threatened, women most affected” makes us look like self-absorbed fools.
Maybe this is why ancient Law forbade idolotry, which is undue reverence to imagery.
However this tech metastasizes, its manipulative sorcery indicates a definite need for returning to text, or even script, for any humans who value truth and justice,
Not sure that you can legitimately describe that choice as ‘Luddism’, with the pejorative overtones that word brings to the debate. If the tool/mechanism isn’t actually working (and the article is surely making that forecast for the Internet), then you throw it away and find another tool that will. That’s a progressive response, not Luddism. But in any case, what a mess this all is.
Deep faking can not be stopped but at least the better it is the less anyone will believe any video is “real” and the easier it will be to brush it off as fake. Invasions into privacy and revenge porn will be less revalatory and therefore should be less painful because others will not react in a way that makes you feel ashamed. It might even lead to people realising that how they feel about themselves is more important to their well being than how they think other people regard them.
no point in commenting, Unherd just deletes my posts…
All digital imagery will be regarded as fake unless confirmed by other physical evidence and or witness statements. T’internet will die, hurrah.