At the last election, the tory party changed their twitter account display-name and profile-picture to pretend to be the “Fact Check UK” account. They have no integrity. theguardian.com/…/tories-tweet-anti-labour-posts-…
Edit: to be clear, I do think the potential for deepfake misinfo is concerning. But the Tories can absolutely fuck off about it
Blimey, Cleverly really is trying to lay the ground work, isn’t he, it’s not 13 years of Torry mis-management at all is it - it’s those foreign actors. Do they send the boats, too??? /s
There’s a difference between disinformation and “rigging an election”; disinformation will increase with AI, but most of the UK are not dependent on Social Media for information - and GBNews and TalkTV are dead in the water -“PopCons” are popular ‘in name only’!
When even Jacob Reece-Mogg is starting to think FPTP doesn’t work “the end is nigh” - and, bloody hell, they are scared, aren’t they!
AI deepfakes? - Bring it on! We’ll laugh at them in a very British way - with a bit of luck it’ll be as funny as Python or Blackadder, or possibly Spitting Image!
I mean… Cassetteboy was a form of deepfaking. Yes, obvious; Yes, Satire; but it still got an image of Johnson or May in your head, saying (singing) something that they didn’t say.
If anyone uses this as an excuse to question the validity of elections, they need to be ashamed of themselves.
Cassetteboy wasn’t really a form of deepfaking, he took clips of them literally saying the words and then pitch adjusted them, that’s all.
Deepfaking is much more involved, and in terms of audio you typically need a voice actor to make a convincing enough copy. People seem to find it harder to recognise AI images than AI sounds.
This doesn’t really seem like a new problem. It wasn’t so long ago that most news was disseminated in text form which has been easily faked forever. The solution should be improving the ways of verifying the information we receive. I guess the main difference now is most people would see a video on social media and believe it. 20-25 years ago I was taught not to believe everything you read online and that hasn’t changed.
There’s a big difference between reading an article claiming a politician did something, and watching video that (appearers to) shows a politician doing something. That’s the danger with deepfakes, that they will reach the point where direct audio-visual sources can no longer be trusted.
If they’re using it for bad, fair game to use it for good with some AI deepfakes too. I wonder if we’ll see a paparazzi style video of Bibi eating a pork chop soon.
Weird, I don’t think I mentioned the UK in my comment. While I’m sure the Israeli PM has quite a bit to do with UK elections, it wasnt mentioned in the article.
I was speaking about AI being used for immoral political discourse, which is what the article speaks to, and extrapolated the concept to other areas it in can have an arguably positive impact.
Your UK community ended up on the front page of someone outside the UK, it’s a risk you take when discussing things that others are participating that aren’t a part of you society.
Gives you something to think about anyway, depending on the context.
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