Today's newscast features a story on Deep Fakes, inspired by a speech by Microsoft's president Brad Smith and some clever soul who did a very funny Deep Fake version of the podcast.
Tesla falsely claimed, in court, that incriminating video of EM being EM was deepfaked. There's a name for this tactic: The Liar's Dividend.
As @samgregory told me & @jesse when we interviewed him for our forthcoming book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA, this is the greatest threat of #deepfakes: giving autocrats & human rights abusers plausible deniability.
Tesla's use of this tactic is...problematic. Thankfully the judge ain't buying it.
"'[Tesla's] position is that because Mr Musk is famous and might be more of a target for deep fakes, his public statements are immune,' [Judge] Pennypacker wrote, adding that such arguments would allow Musk and other famous people 'to avoid taking ownership of what they did actually say and do'."
An AI-generated political ad has brought forth a very modern issue: Could videos like these, despite being labelled, spread misinformation during political campaigns through the use of deepfakes?
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