21 sats \ 10 replies \ @amaluenda 17 Oct 2023 \ on: What technology do you REFUSE to adopt? tech
The rise of deepfake technologies, which can create highly convincing fake videos or audio recordings, raises ethical questions about misinformation and the potential for abuse.
Its pretty wild but I always think back to the past and my reading of history. The masses have always been easily deceived. The root problem is not the tech. Its us. We are not skeptical enough. In the recent past information was completely controlled by a handful of newspapers and radio/TV networks. They lied to the public. The government lied to the public. Those that knew this and wanted to expose it were very limited. Most people had no access to alternative view points. There was little pressure on these elites. At least now we have the ability to research far more information than our ancestors. The problem is the sheer volume of information. So much of it is noise. Misinformation has always been an issue. I don't believe it is worse. It think the elites have less control over. There are more actors now and many of them are only interested in chaos. Its not good but it could be worse. We could be under complete control of an elite psyop machine with no defense against it.
The defense against all this "misinformation" is skepticism and honestly focusing on what is in your control. A larger issue in society is this addiction to the drip of new information. At least 90% of the time when I hear "misinformation" it is from some corporate media type that is angry that someone is contradicting the message they are relaying from their gov/corp overlords.
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Since they know they have less control they actively try to exacerbate the problem and let the people fight among themselves
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Yep. This has been a strategy for centuries. Its why I try to find common ground with people when they are clearly good honest people but we disagree politically. There is a clear malicious coalition between both US political parties, corporations and the government machine. If they keep the people divided and fighting about social issues the real deeper issues are ignored and they can continue without public pressure. Its really quite impressive how they do it.
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I'm still trying to figure out how we will be able to believe anything of what we see online at all.
Just how, without trust?
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The rise of deepfakes and sophisticated manipulation tools indeed poses a challenge to trust in digital content. Establishing trust in online information may require a multi-faceted approach. One solution is Digital Signature. Implementing digital signatures or watermarking on original content can serve as a form of authentication. If these technologies become widespread and are integrated into content distribution platforms, users may have more confidence in the authenticity of what they're viewing.
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I know too little of hardware, but it seems we need to have hardware digitally sign a video stream continuously in a non reversible manner (via lightning transactions?), tied to a public person so it is verifiable from multiple other sources the person was there... Or similar.
I don't know, too dumb atm to think about it hehe
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How did a man reading the New York Times in the 1920s validate anything he read? Trust? We have always had this problem but recently we have been in a state of being where info was easier to get and confirm. Now technology is returning us to a previous state of uncertainty. They way I handle this is skepticism and prioritizing what I need to know vs. what everyone is talking about. Most AI / Deep fake crap doesn't have an impact on decisions I'm making now. If it did I wouldn't trust it until I could figure out a way to verify it. I have yet to see a deep fake fool people long term. Yet I have seen MANY examples in the last few years of media outlets misquoting people and people repeating it to the point where it is just fact to them. It is trivially easy to check many of these lies but people don't. This isn't new. Media has always lied. Now we can check them but most don't. That is the root issue. I can't solve it for anyone but me. Same goes for you.
The other way I handle this is reputation. Has this person/group lied to me and others in the past. If yes I do not trust them. That doesn't mean all they say is a lie but it means I have to check them. This is why I do not trust any government body to speak truth. They have burned that bridge. I do not trust any news outlet either. They all lie, mislead, and hold back facts to spin a narrative.
The way I would sum it all up is to say we in the west have been naive and we are being forced out it. The handful of people I know that experienced communism do not have this flaw. They aren't naive. Many that I know from the global south are the same. They aren't naive. We apparently have to be burned to learn sadly.
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I'm afraid we don't have any choice on this one.
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im more interested in the memeability of deepfakes.
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im more interested in the memeability of deepfakes. Memes crafted using deepfake technology can add a layer of amusement and surprise, often blurring the lines between reality and satire.
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