Deep Fake Videos

[Asclepias]

Information disseminated to the public is used to control and manipulate the weak minded. In this era of fake news and alternative facts its about to get bad. New technology exists that will produce convincing videos of prominent people saying things they never said.

How Faking Videos Became Easy — And Why That's So Scary

"A minute-long video of Barack Obama has been seen more than 4.8 million times since April. It shows the former U.S. president seated, with the American flag in the background, speaking directly to the viewer and using an obscenity to refer to his successor, Donald Trump. Or rather, his lips move as the words are spoken. The video is actually a so-called deep fake made by actor-director Jordan Peele, who impersonated Obama’s voice. Peele created the video to illustrate the dangers of fabricated audio and video content depicting people saying or doing things they never actually said or did. Researchers at New York University describe deep fakes as a “menace on the horizon.”"

 

[Oddball]

It's not necessary to fake words that people didn't say...Just post an out-of-context video clip of a kid wearing a red ball cap, or put the cretins at BuzzFeed on the case, and voila!....Instant fake nooz, ripe for the moonbats to soil themselves over for days on end!

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I play with CGI and comp effects as a hobby. So far, I can spot them easy. But they're getting better at it.

 

[MarcATL]

Information disseminated to the public is used to control and manipulate the weak minded. In this era of fake news and alternative facts its about to get bad. New technology exists that will produce convincing videos of prominent people saying things they never said.

How Faking Videos Became Easy — And Why That's So Scary

"A minute-long video of Barack Obama has been seen more than 4.8 million times since April. It shows the former U.S. president seated, with the American flag in the background, speaking directly to the viewer and using an obscenity to refer to his successor, Donald Trump. Or rather, his lips move as the words are spoken. The video is actually a so-called deep fake made by actor-director Jordan Peele, who impersonated Obama’s voice. Peele created the video to illustrate the dangers of fabricated audio and video content depicting people saying or doing things they never actually said or did. Researchers at New York University describe deep fakes as a “menace on the horizon.”"

Especially in this day and age, where the right are just powder kegs waiting to be lit by one fake poutrage after the next, this is going to be very problematic.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Information disseminated to the public is used to control and manipulate the weak minded. In this era of fake news and alternative facts its about to get bad. New technology exists that will produce convincing videos of prominent people saying things they never said.

How Faking Videos Became Easy — And Why That's So Scary

"A minute-long video of Barack Obama has been seen more than 4.8 million times since April. It shows the former U.S. president seated, with the American flag in the background, speaking directly to the viewer and using an obscenity to refer to his successor, Donald Trump. Or rather, his lips move as the words are spoken. The video is actually a so-called deep fake made by actor-director Jordan Peele, who impersonated Obama’s voice. Peele created the video to illustrate the dangers of fabricated audio and video content depicting people saying or doing things they never actually said or did. Researchers at New York University describe deep fakes as a “menace on the horizon.”"

Especially in this day and age, where the right are just powder kegs waiting to be lit by one fake poutrage after the next, this is going to be very problematic.

True.

Conservatives will use fake videos to propagate their lies as they have fake news.

 

[MindWars]

and your thinking level just can't figure out how they're coming for you next.