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Fear media triggers a race to fight manipulated photos and videos. “OMG we’re under ATTACK”

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.

> 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.

While perfecting their own manipulation technologies.

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