Okay, I'm gonna be the one to say it: things like this wouldn't be believable in good faith if people weren't so used to being fucked over by their politicians all the time.
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Fight fire with fire.
"Thing that everyone said was going to happen happens, but now it's happened to one of our betters so it's news."
Haven't kids been killing themselves over deepfake porn being passed around school for years?
Yep.
So what you're saying is release Trump in deep fake porn so he unalives himself?
Unalive
leave.
No, you.
This is adults standing room only, children that self censor themselves because they got TikTok brain need not apply and the exit is posted
Yeesh, that's cringe bro.
Gotta say I walked right into that one.
Meat and cheese, what a pair
South Park didnt go far enough
It's a real worry. I watched a Rachel Maddow video on youtube recently and got several minutes in before I realised it was fake, it was very convincing. How is society going to function when none of us know what's real and what's not?
It’s not exactly functional right now either
Which is even scarier. Most of us knew it was only going to get worse, and deep fakes are just going to add fuel to the dumpster fire.
That's the thing, it doesn't.
We've been warning about this for years. Now it's too late, especially because the people in power have a vested interest in NOT policing deepfakes.
I think this is similar to the gerrymandering issue where, since only the Republicans have abused it for years, they have had 0 reason to vote for any legislation put up against it.
Now that the D's are doing it, they might consider the risk is higher than the reward with Gerrymandering and say nobody is allowed to do it.
Just gotta start pumpin out gen images of Rs for them to reconsider their stance.
To be clear, I am very against AI gen images. But, like you were saying, I don't see any reason for them to take any action against it until it affects them.
Excellent comparison! I just fear that the GOP will always be more unscrupulous than the Dems, and so will ultimately always be OK with gerrymandering (or deep fakes, or what have you).
The good (horrible) thing about deepfakes is that pretty much anyone can produce them.
Disclaimer: I am also vehemently against AI-generated garbage, but it is a curious double-standard that the conservatives embrace, which could be easily leveraged against them by many, many pissed off people 🤔
Two sides to every coin. They know very well that once everyone accepts that deepfakes exist, and that nearly anyone can make them, and they are difficult if not impossible to identify, then the age of photographic and video evidence is over. They want deepfakes out there because it means that if they get caught on camera or on a hot mic, they can immediately turn around and claim that it was a deepfake. Their base will believe it. It will be virtually impossible to get republican voters to hold them accountable then.
Edit to add: The GOP base, being what they are, will gleefully believe deepfakes about democrats while completely dismissing those about republicans. It really is a win-win for them.
It's kind of upsetting that anyone is shocked or surprised by this.
What would shock or surprise me is if in light of this “travesty”, any meaningful legislation gets drafted and passed.