Deep Fakes and Liar's Dividend

[Dill]

(10-22-2018, 08:29 AM)Au165 Wrote: Who would have guessed that as we progressed as a nation we became less fit to actually vote. The technology has existed for a couple years but it simply wasn't as easy to do as it is now. A lot of times you can detect it if you know what you are looking for in terms of hobbyist doing it because motions are slightly jerky, or a blending will have a flaw here or there. The reality is when the technology is used for Fraud, like what is proposed here, then those who create it must be prosecuted for Fraud. While it seems scary the article points out that there is technology in the works to detect it. I think what will happen is Youtube and hosting sites will use it due to liability of posting such videos and then rogue websites who post it without detection software to stop it will be held liable as well.

This "deep fake" technology is new, but Media fraud is not.

When A Famous Author Ran for Office — And Politics Changed Forever
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/when-an-author-ran-for-of_b_765759.html

In an amazing 1934 upset, ex-socialist author Upton Sinclair — leading one of the great grassroots crusades in our history — won the Democratic primary for governor of California in a landslide and appeared headed for victory in November. To prevent that, his opponents invented the political campaign as we know it today. It also marked Hollywood’s first all-out plunge into politics and the creation of the first “attack ads” on the screen — thanks to Irving Thalberg at MGM.

These attack adds included actors playing average joes who simply "expressed their fears" and asserted falsehoods about Sinclair's campaign.

Especially interesting is how, after the fact, Sinclair researched all the bogus claims made against him in an attempt to get some truth-in-advertising legislation passed.  He was unsuccessful.  It's not clear that voters back then were less gullible than they are now. But I do think politicians and political groups have better learned to harness gullibility and maintain it from election to election. That is what I see in the Fox phenomenon anyway.