Posted on 12/26/2018 1:47:31 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze
....The challenge is it goes to the heart of our trust in visual media, Dr. Matt Turek, head of the media forensics program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, run by the U.S. Department of Defense, explained. Were used to looking at an image or video and putting faith in it -- believing the content of the image or the video. And with the rise of the ability to easily manipulate those, that is going to put our faith in visual media in jeopardy.
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Beyond infantilizing the fake news media, the more insidious and certain outcome of this technology will be for the federal government to manufacture incriminating video of somebody engaging in unlawful behavior. It will soon become easy to target critics with arrests and create in a computer, the evidence to silence them through imprisonment.
Even worse they’ll develop deep fake porn.
Stories like this also preempt actual videos from being seen as credible and therefore damaging. Methinks there’s some HRC video out there that will need to be debunked rather swiftly upon release.
Well, that's a buzzkill.
And, like all new technologies it’ll soon be available to the masses.
Cheap.
Thus rendering all video fake. Everything you see on the TV or Internet will be, at best, suspect.
How will they then control what we think?
Like the "manipulated and fake video" lies against Project Veritas videos.
They already have...
#FakeNews is prepping us for the time when the Willie Brown home videos of Kam-Allah Harris drop on Instagram.
Plausible deniability. ;-)
Seeing, other than maybe at first hand, is no longer believing.
I read somewhere that it’s now possible to make your own VR porn. Are we at Brainstorm yet?
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