We covered it a little bit earlier today with the whole "FaceTime Glitch" thing that uhh... will probably get us all landed in prison, but in case you go "well I've done nothing wrong, all I am is the most gullible idiot in the world who just wants to affirm his awful biases", then I have bad news: deep fakes will probably kill us all too. We've covered deep fakes -- the technology which puts the face of anyone whose had enough media appearances -- onto a body. It was in the past spotlighted for being used on porn (for example -- putting a famous actresses' face on the body of a porn star which is... look, it's not good), but most of us aren't huge creepy perverts, so maybe we weren't aware of the power of Deep Fakes. A video from Jordan Peele later in the year helped illustrate things a little better, but I don't think it's until this video of Steve Buscemi's face being placed onto Jennifer Lawrence's during an awards show that everyone collectively took a deep breath and went...
We covered it a little bit earlier today with the whole "FaceTime Glitch" thing that uhh... will probably get us all landed in prison, but in case you go "well I've done nothing wrong, all I am is the most gullible idiot in the world who just wants to affirm his awful biases", then I have bad news: deep fakes will probably kill us all too. We've covered deep fakes -- the technology which puts the face of anyone whose had enough media appearances -- onto a body. It was in the past spotlighted for being used on porn (for example -- putting a famous actresses' face on the body of a porn star which is... look, it's not good), but most of us aren't huge creepy perverts, so maybe we weren't aware of the power of Deep Fakes. A video from Jordan Peele later in the year helped illustrate things a little better, but I don't think it's until this video of Steve Buscemi's face being placed onto Jennifer Lawrence's during an awards show that everyone collectively took a deep breath and went...