[politician]

My personal belief is that we should be generating vast amounts of deep fake videos and audio clips now that the technology is available. We should intentionally and hastily move to pollute the information streams around us as rapidly as possible in order to force an evolution in how we process information.

To attempt to slow down this arms race, or to ignore its implications just puts us at a further disadvantage to those that want to capitalize on the potential it brings them to arbitrage our "default accept" mindset against their fake agenda.

For example, China's Great Wall will not protect them from deepfakes and indeed it actually makes the delivery of deepfakes into China more effective.

The advantage afforded by weaponizing deepfakes only lasts as long as the audience defaults to trust without verification.

[yifanl]

So a form of targeted accelerationism? That's an interesting thought, but assuming it works as intended, wouldn't the end result of this be a total destruction of trust?

A whole society where all non-physical interaction is treated with total suspicion can't be a pleasant one to live in. Maybe that's the end result either way though.

[politician]

The idea is to step back from the idea that we can trust media sources without verification. Trust _but verify_.

Small groups and towns, places where people live and have a regular continuous presence, are more likely to be places of higher trust.

Your typical broadcast media sources or your typical corporate social media sources, places where anyone with any agenda can buy their way onto your screen are not places that deserve high trust without verification.

Given what we know now, screens of all kinds should be (and IMO, will become) known as low trust environments. Hastening that is paramount because in the intervening time you have a population that's susceptible to all sorts of manipulation.

I'm suggesting nothing new. Be nice to people, and don't believe everything you read.

[SubiculumCode]

That's step 1. Step 2 is to provide a product that resolves the issue through crypto/blockchain certification.

[andrewmcwatters]

What does this mean? Can you elaborate?