| > A new, insidious form of social currency emerges: digital blackmail, revenge porn so convincing it's indistinguishable from reality, and customized fantasies that feed the darkest corners of the human psyche. You cannot have it both ways. Either it's ubiquitous and indistinguishable from reality and hence anybody, anywhere, can always invoke the "it's not revenge porn, it's deepfake" or it's not indistinguishable from reality and hence TFA has no argument. I have no problem imagining a world where perfect vids can be created of anyone doing anything. But when this world happen, vids are going to be worth exactly zero. They won't have any value in courtrooms, they won't work as fake revenge porn to pressure people, they won't be worth a lot of money. Really you don't get to have it both ways: it's either ubiquitous and indistinguishable for reality or it's not. I don't buy the digital blackmail thing using perfect AI generated porn. If anything it'd be a godsend: no more digital blackmail using stolen tapes / hidden cameras. Because even real vids can then be dismissed as AI generated perfect vids made with the sole intent of blackmailing / hurting. |