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by futureastronaut 2503 days ago
I've seen probably hundreds of moral panic stories about DEEP FAKES (which sound so scary!), and have yet to see a malicious use. It's more of an ML party trick than anything to fear, but the "I fucking love science" crowd eats it up.
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> I've seen probably hundreds of moral panic stories about DEEP FAKES (which sound so scary!), and have yet to see a malicious use.

Because this is a long-term operation designed to make you question what your own eyes see. There will be a day when an extremely damaging video of a politician/celebrity comes out and our trusted media sources will say "we've determined this was merely a deep fake" and thereby dismiss it out of hand.

I have a feeling that the next 15 months will be an interesting time for this.