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

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01100011 wrote: post #201

This is the funniest thing Matt and Trey have done in years. I don't know if they still write the show, but it hasn't been funny to me in a couple years. This clip had me rolling. This feels inspired and I hope it creates more awareness in the general public.

Trey Parker had a similar reaction [0]:

“But when Parker got to see himself digitally altered to look like Al Gore, he said, “It was the first time I had laughed at myself in a long time.”

Parker added: “I always hate watching myself. Even with ‘South Park,’ I have a perfect image of what it’s going to look like in my head all the time. But on this, there were moments where we felt like kids in our basement again.”

To Parker and Stone, the experience also reminded them of “The Spirit of Christmas,” their 1995 homemade short film that became a viral sensation in a more primitive age of the internet and paved the way for “South Park.””

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/arts/television/sassy-jus...

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crankyoldcrank wrote: post #209
01100011 wrote: post #201

This is the funniest thing Matt and Trey have done in years. I don't know if they still write the show, but it hasn't been funny to me in a couple years. This clip had me rolling. This feels inspired and I hope it creates more awareness in the general public.

Would've been funnier if it was Biden having the stroke. Much more believable. But a week before the election I guess only Trump is an acceptable target. Notice Biden didn't get mentioned a single time.. even when making fun of Trump's son-in-law, surely there's a better joke there about the picture of Hunter Biden with a crack pipe in his mouth that's more relevant to the topic. Or I guess, Matt and Trey know that's…

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Post by justEgan »

readams wrote: post #194

People are going crazy over deepfakes but we've had Photoshop for a long time and the world hasn't ended. We find ways to verify the content of photos through other means, such as their provenance.

Something to consider is that we already had video when photoshop arrived, which is able to merit at least more authenticity than images do. Are there other mediums that's able to take this baton of authenticity now? I don't think so.

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Post by patcon »

readams wrote: post #194

People are going crazy over deepfakes but we've had Photoshop for a long time and the world hasn't ended. We find ways to verify the content of photos through other means, such as their provenance.

i dunno, seems pretty significant to me. used to be that we only had to be skeptical of blurry newspapers photos, then detailed photos, then videos without people as giveaway, now highly detailed videos and audio aren't trustable. You don't think it seems significant that it's getting to a point where only "seeing with your eyes" is believing? All our systems of spreading information beyond our senses start to fail when we can't trust anything outside our perceived experience (or things brought to us by our trusted friends)

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Post by heavyset_go »

b0rsuk wrote: post #177

I think the biggest casualty of deepfakes are going to be citizens. Record a video of police brutality or crime footage and it can all be shrugged off as a deep fake. TV stations and journalists can afford 'signed videos'.

Maybe in the court of public opinion, but I doubt it would matter much in actual court. Chain of custody for video evidence has always mattered there.

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Post by 1024core »

crankyoldcrank wrote: post #209
01100011 wrote: post #201

This is the funniest thing Matt and Trey have done in years. I don't know if they still write the show, but it hasn't been funny to me in a couple years. This clip had me rolling. This feels inspired and I hope it creates more awareness in the general public.

Would've been funnier if it was Biden having the stroke. Much more believable. But a week before the election I guess only Trump is an acceptable target. Notice Biden didn't get mentioned a single time.. even when making fun of Trump's son-in-law, surely there's a better joke there about the picture of Hunter Biden with a crack pipe in his mouth that's more relevant to the topic. Or I guess, Matt and Trey know that's…

Just post under your own account; why create a new one for this comment?

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Post by stevofolife »

readams wrote: post #194

People are going crazy over deepfakes but we've had Photoshop for a long time and the world hasn't ended. We find ways to verify the content of photos through other means, such as their provenance.

The problem isn't about the existence though. Accessibility and convenience to use this type of technology are the issues here.

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Post by feralimal »

Well, personally I think deep fakes are a good thing.

The reality is that 'we' were too trusting of what is presented on screens as true. Its the main piece that is used to manage and govern us.

So, I welcome distrust on what we see on screens - that trust was always misplaced, and all about manipulation rather than information.

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Post by drdeca »

prutschman wrote: post #151
sega_sai wrote: post #82

Is there some kind of private/public key signing technique for videos, when the camera creating a video signs it with some key providing a signature that can be verified for authenticity ? so you would be able to at least verify that the video was created at certain date on a certain camera ?

So I can cryptographically prove that at a particular date at a particular time with a particular camera that I authentically pointed my camera at a screen projecting faked content? I think this only works if you're signing something currently much harder to fake, like a full light-field or something, and even then it won't stay hard to fake forever.

I know they don't currently do this, but if GPS satellites cryptographically signed their timing signals, could that potentially be usable to establish that, in addition to the particular camera capturing the images at a particular time, that it also did so in a particular-ish place ?

It's possible to record and replay signals from gps satellites with different delays, so maybe that could be used to spoof the location, but if the camera also has an internal clock, perhaps it could detect if there was too much discrepancy there? But I don't know how much that could constrain the location. Also gps only has limited precision, especially indoors? Uh, maybe using cell towers instead of, or in addition to, gps would be better? Hm.

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