Wilder and Sido are worried about the possibilities for ginning up phony vidya “evidence” via AI, but I for one welcome our new ant robot overlords.
With AI there is no limit to the “news footage” They can create anything at will and if there is video evidence of you doing something, who is a jury going to believe? A racist like me or their lying eyes?
Way back in 1987 this was predicted in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film The Running Man. Playing Ben Richards, Arnold is imprisoned for shooting at an unarmed crowd of protesters but in reality he had refused the order to fire on them. The government then changed the film of the incident to make it look like Arnold had actually disobeyed orders to stand down and fired on the crowd…
We are conditioned to believe video. If the news just makes a claim we can be skeptical but when we see it playing out in front of us? Most people are just going to accept it for what it seems to be. It would seem a simple matter to create an AI rendition of Trump saying nigger while smoking meth with a Russian hooker peeing on him.
DUDE, I would SO pay good money to see a vid like that. GOOOOOD money.
They take all the dystopian novels and movies as How To Manuals rather than the Cautionary Tales they were meant to be.
“A picture is worth a thousand words”
Except it’s not. Photo’s lie. Video’s lie. I don’t believe anything I see or read unless I know the source can be trusted, and that doesn’t include the government and 99.99% of the news organizations.