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Let me separate my face, body and words and craft the experience.
I miss the recent past where new tech felt exciting and inspiring but for the last few years new developments are often coupled with an anxiety for the new harms possible and often unclear benefits. I wonder how much is 'inevitable', at large enough scale we will always exploring new possibility spaces as they become available and how much is our choosing – we put resources to build these things in full awareness bec…
I miss the recent past where new tech felt exciting and inspiring but for the last few years new developments are often coupled with an anxiety for the new harms possible and often unclear benefits. I wonder how much is 'inevitable', at large enough scale we will always exploring new possibility spaces as they become available and how much is our choosing – we put resources to build these things in full awareness bec…
I miss the recent past where new tech felt exciting and inspiring but for the last few years new developments are often coupled with an anxiety for the new harms possible and often unclear benefits. I wonder how much is 'inevitable', at large enough scale we will always exploring new possibility spaces as they become available and how much is our choosing – we put resources to build these things in full awareness bec…
But maybe no, it wouldn't. Maybe it'd be deeply disconcerting. We have very strong norms around honesty as a society, and maybe crossing them in video just for a joke is comparably crass to giving somebody a fake winning lottery ticket.
Well, I understand how it works, and I still find it freaking amazing. The quality is... impressive. On the flip side, the ability to deep-fake a face in real time on a video call is now accessible to pretty much every script kiddie out there. In other words, you can no longer trust what your eyes see on video calls. We live in interesting times.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/us-security-firm...
FTA: "Ethical Use Safeguards Built-in checks prevent processing of inappropriate content, ensuring legal and ethical use." I see it claims to not process content with nudity, but all of the examples on the website demo impersonation of famous people, including at least one politician (JD Vance). I'm struggling to understand what the authors consider 'ethical' deepfaking? What is the intended 'ethical' use case here?…
That can be asked of 90% of what's come out of the latest AI bubble so far.
Like a lot of technology, AI has so much potential for good. And we use it for things like games that simulate killing one another, or making fake news web sites, or pushing people to riot over lies, or making 12-year-olds addicted to apps, or eliminating the jobs of people who need those jobs the most, or, yes, pornography.
We can do better.
Well, I understand how it works, and I still find it freaking amazing. The quality is... impressive. On the flip side, the ability to deep-fake a face in real time on a video call is now accessible to pretty much every script kiddie out there. In other words, you can no longer trust what your eyes see on video calls. We live in interesting times.
It's interesting, because the subconscious ability of the mind to identify discrepancies is incredible (even if we ignore that feeling we get about something). The feel of counterfeit bills, the color someone choose to wear, the sound that doesn't quite fit. I think deep-fakes are mostly a danger to people without a lot of source material for their minds to compare against. You could trick me into believing I was tak…
And yet there have been several recent studies that show the younger someone is, the more likely they are to be scammed online.
> In 2021, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Z young adults (ages 18-59) were 34% more likely than older adults (ages 60 and over) to report losing money to fraud,[1] and some types of fraud stood out. Younger adults reported losses to online shopping fraud – which often started with an ad on social media – far more often than any other fraud type, and most said they simply did not get the items they ordered.[2] Younger adults were over four times more likely than older adults to report a loss on an investment scam.[3] Most of these were bogus cryptocurrency investment opportunities.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spo...
Technically impressive but I fail to see a good use case for it that's not related to propaganda or scam and the website doesn't seem to list one either.
If I had to dig way, way down to the bottom of the barrel for use cases, it would be very funny if everyone showed up to a meeting wearing one of the attendee's faces.