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South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes

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Re: South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes

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Post by bogwog »

conception wrote: post #15
stanrivers wrote: post #11

This feels like the start of something very bad - they are going to be upfront about the deepfakes... others are not. It’s going to get to the point where you can’t even say in a court room “well we have video of him doing this”. The fact that deepfakes will exist will erode confidence in even those things that are true. At the same time it will add additional fake situations to the conversation. Worst part is that e…

Maybe... photoshop detection hasn’t gone down that path as far as I know. I would imagine the problems of hiding detection in video to be a magnitude harder to hide?

True, but photoshop is usually done by hand. An AI-generated deepfake could maybe eventually be trained so that it outputs videos that are indistinguishable from the real thing.

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Post by acover »

stanrivers wrote: post #11

This feels like the start of something very bad - they are going to be upfront about the deepfakes... others are not. It’s going to get to the point where you can’t even say in a court room “well we have video of him doing this”. The fact that deepfakes will exist will erode confidence in even those things that are true. At the same time it will add additional fake situations to the conversation. Worst part is that e…

Would signing the image in hardware alleviate some of the problem? It would create a high cost to faking.

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Post by zeroping »

tremon wrote: post #3

Regardless of the actual content or quality of the show, I hope this reaches a wide audience. All people should know about the technical capabilities of deepfakes.

Is this a method to innoculate the viewer against deepfakes? I wonder if part of thief goal is to specifically make people more aware?

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Post by optymizer »

stanrivers wrote: post #11

This feels like the start of something very bad - they are going to be upfront about the deepfakes... others are not. It’s going to get to the point where you can’t even say in a court room “well we have video of him doing this”. The fact that deepfakes will exist will erode confidence in even those things that are true. At the same time it will add additional fake situations to the conversation. Worst part is that e…

I think it'll be similar to the situation with pictures. We've had the ability to 'photoshop' people's faces in and out of images for a long time now.

I think the first question asked of a video is going to be "is this a deep fake?" just like we currently ask "is this picture photoshopped?".

It doesn't mean that we no longer use pictures, or that we don't alter pictures, just that we are more critical of them.

That said, there is just more realism in a series of moving pictures, but I don't see why the situation for a series of fake pictures has to be wildly different from the situation of a single fake picture.

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Post by opwieurposiu »

yalogin wrote: post #4

Deepfakes have the potential to turn the word upside down and cause utter chaos in the world. I don’t know how we are going to deal with it as a society, I think we are not equipped for it. In fact I fully expected trump to use it for the October surprise, but I guess he didn’t go there for whatever reason.

He has hunter's laptop, no reason to lie.

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Post by pimlottc »

wodenokoto wrote: post #8

At first I thought the sub-headings were summaries of sketches from the show (which I thought was an odd thing to do) so imagine my surprise that the article ends with announcing a new release of PyTorch. The article consists of 5 different small articles. Does anybody know where the new show by Trey Parker and Matt Stone called Sassy Justice is airing? Is it a free Youtube series?

The homepage is sassyjustice.com. Currently it's embedded from YouTube.

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Post by thebean11 »

bogwog wrote: post #21
conception wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe... photoshop detection hasn’t gone down that path as far as I know. I would imagine the problems of hiding detection in video to be a magnitude harder to hide?

True, but photoshop is usually done by hand. An AI-generated deepfake could maybe eventually be trained so that it outputs videos that are indistinguishable from the real thing.

The detection side also gets the benefits of AI though. I can't see the generation side getting that far ahead.
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