Showing posts with label ethical issues with face altering tech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethical issues with face altering tech. Show all posts

Friday, December 21, 2018

No, You Don’t Really Look Like That; The Atlantic, December 18, 2018

Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic; No, You Don’t Really Look Like That

"The stakes can be high: Artificial intelligence makes it easy to synthesize videos into new, fictitious ones often called “deepfakes.” “We’ll shortly live in a world where our eyes routinely deceive us,” wrote my colleague Franklin Foer. “Put differently, we’re not so far from the collapse of reality.” Deepfakes are one way of melting reality; another is changing the simple phone photograph from a decent approximation of the reality we see with our eyes to something much different."