A New Year's reminder re the Internet
"the internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself”https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/31/18163351/scarlett-johansson-slams-deepfakes-internet-lost-cause"there may be nobody to arrest, nobody even to sue, when it comes to deepfakes: AI-generated videos that seamlessly stitch Johansson and other celebs’ faces onto the bodies of porn stars having sex."We've always been prey to forgeries, lies and panics, but the web has added phenomenal power to the possibility of creating them. Film, images and text can all be altered invisibly, and the potential for harm, intentional or accidental, is tremendous in our volatile world. As yet, on a human level, the web doesn't seem to have created ways for us to vet, recognise and discard them.And, if it did, who would guard these guards?And, of course, I may be wrong about this.
David Ainsworth ● 2871d2 Comments