Semafor already knows this, obviously.
I’m actually not as worried about deepfakes as some people are, because the uncanny valley is going to be harder to traverse than you’d think. Look at that video above, for example: the woman’s facial expressions remind me of somebody who’s had one too many hits of meth in the last forty-eight hours. It’s a lot better than it used to be, but is it good enough to not sabotage one’s agitprop? Not yet.
Moe Lane
PS: It is good enough for porn, though. Then again: we all already knew that, and it’s just going to get worse. The 2030s are going to be one seriously messed-up decade.
Would be only slightly improved if she looked like a she and not a discount Justin Beiber.
Shoulda modeled her on Ana de Armas in Blade Runner. Best. AI. EVER.
Yes. The artificial….. intelligence.
If you don’t watch the news/tech vlogger Upper Echelon, he recently* did a short series where he made a series of pictures identifiable as the same person on MidJourney, created a social media presence for this fictional person, and used a chatbot to provide regularly updated content.
He was ridiculously successful, and his takeaway was pretty much “oh my God, it’s full of bots.”
I’m still very fuzzy on how defunct accounts can be stripped of identifiers, renamed, and repurposed, but he clearly demonstrated how to tell, and that lots of influential people had done exactly that.
And that notability can be very cheaply purchased.
He also identified three major botnets that were interrelated and comprise a huge amount of traffic. The first was dedicated to pushing crypto, the second to pushing the current Left-Wing talking points, and I don’t recall what the third was pushing.
*Recent is relative. Sometime within the last few months. Almost certainly this year. I’m old, dangit.
It’s not done; it’s a long term project. But the frequency of major things cropping up for him to report have largely pushed this story into hiatus.