Mind-warping Potential of Fake Video And the technology is evolving quickly https://gizmodo.com/deepfake-videos-are-getting-impossibly-good-1826759848 — via face-swapping software — a puppeteer [is realistically faked] for Obama’s face. Not too long ago, this type of software was limited to transferring simple facial expressions and mouth movements from an actor to a fake video. Now ... the software can account for wide-ranging head and eye movements without much obvious distortion. Combine fake audio with fake video and it’s not hard to imagine a future where forged videos are maddeningly hard to distinguish from the truth. Or a future where a fake video of a president incites a riot https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-terrifying-future-of-fake-news?utm_term=.feWkrAPWWk#.nqNAkL0NNAor fells the market. “We’re not so far from the collapse of reality,” as Franklin Foer summed up https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/realitys-end/556877/ at the Atlantic. But I fear it’s not just our present and future reality that could collapse; it’s also our past. Fake media could manipulate what we remember, effectively altering the past by seeding the population with false memories. The human mind is incredibly susceptible to forming false memories. And that tendency can be kicked into overdrive on the internet, where false ideas spread like viruses http://psych.wustl.edu/memory/Roddy%20article%20PDF's/Roediger%20et%20al%20(2001)_PBR.pdf among like-minded people. Which means the AI-enhanced forgeries on the horizon will only make planting false memories even easier. Doctored photos can change the way we remember history. And not just our memories for facts, but possibly even our recollections of what we saw with our own eyes. It means that bad actors may be able to prey on our political biases to change our understanding of world events. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/20/17109764/deepfake-ai-false-memory-psychology-mandela-effect https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/20/17109764/deepfake-ai-false-memory-psychology-mandela-effect
[FairfieldLife] We’re not far from the collapse of reality -- Maya goes Mainstream
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