WEBVTT - The Alarming Power of Deepfakes 0:00:21.183 --> 0:00:27.183 Discussing Trump shared a fake image. Oh. Oh man, I 0:00:27.183 --> 0:00:29.853 didn't put the link. I just got an email about this. 0:00:29.853 --> 0:00:36.273 Didn't put the link. Oh, man. Whatever fake image of 0:00:36.273 --> 0:00:39.453 Harris speaking at a communist event. All right, let me 0:00:39.483 --> 0:00:57.933 let me find this thing. Trump. Share. See? Yeah, look 0:00:57.933 --> 0:01:05.583 at that. Look at that. I mean, does anyone think 0:01:05.583 --> 0:01:07.803 she would actually go to an event like that? Well, 0:01:07.833 --> 0:01:09.993 first of all, yeah, this this is what I said 0:01:10.023 --> 0:01:14.643 actually in the piece, right? Um, one, lots of people 0:01:14.643 --> 0:01:17.643 will believe it's real. And two, current tech can already 0:01:17.643 --> 0:01:20.673 make more believable ones than this. So this isn't the 0:01:20.673 --> 0:01:26.083 actual problem. The actual problem is when it gets much worse. Um. Oh, 0:01:26.113 --> 0:01:30.703 here's the other one that they were sharing. Um, watch 0:01:30.703 --> 0:01:43.003 this one. Trump share Taylor Swift. Should be enough, right? 0:01:50.203 --> 0:02:07.123 No links. Yeah. Look at this. Look at this. So 0:02:07.123 --> 0:02:09.253 we've been talking about for years. I went looking for 0:02:09.253 --> 0:02:11.023 this post where I first started talking about this. I 0:02:11.023 --> 0:02:14.923 couldn't find it. So. Beehive, fix your search, please. Uh, 0:02:14.953 --> 0:02:18.493 couldn't find it with Google either, so that kind of annoying. Anyway, 0:02:19.303 --> 0:02:23.443 I wrote about basically deep fakes becoming an issue because 0:02:23.443 --> 0:02:25.763 we're not going to be able to believe things. It's 0:02:25.763 --> 0:02:28.283 so obvious now. It's not even a good post, but 0:02:28.283 --> 0:02:31.403 it was very early. This was like two years ago. 0:02:31.763 --> 0:02:36.983 I was talking about this. Um, but anyway, everyone knows now. Uh, 0:02:36.983 --> 0:02:43.133 and here is the actual. It's just now starting to matter. Okay, 0:02:43.223 --> 0:02:46.043 look at this picture. The top right one that looks 0:02:46.043 --> 0:02:48.953 like an actual, like event. This person's got his phone. 0:02:48.953 --> 0:02:52.283 He's got his foot sticking out. That looks super real. 0:02:52.283 --> 0:02:58.973 Super real Swifties for Trump. Now, you don't be funny 0:02:58.973 --> 0:03:02.123 is if that was if that was was actually real 0:03:02.123 --> 0:03:07.673 like some okay the bottom left definitely not real okay. 0:03:08.033 --> 0:03:10.793 They're probably none of these are probably real. Just to 0:03:10.823 --> 0:03:15.323 be very clear about, you know, disinformation or whatever. But, um, 0:03:15.323 --> 0:03:17.393 the point is you can make these. Oh, yeah, this 0:03:17.393 --> 0:03:20.843 bottom right one also looks super real. The bottom left 0:03:20.843 --> 0:03:26.783 one does not because that Swifties for Trump looks like 0:03:26.783 --> 0:03:30.453 To clear, like the white of the text just looks 0:03:30.453 --> 0:03:33.663 a little bit too artificial. But this one Swifties for 0:03:33.663 --> 0:03:37.503 Trump it's got shadow on it. The T is hidden 0:03:37.533 --> 0:03:40.323 because it's on the other side of her body, so 0:03:40.323 --> 0:03:44.943 that one looks real. It's actually the same person as this. Honestly, 0:03:46.173 --> 0:03:49.323 these two look really, really good that that would trick 0:03:49.323 --> 0:03:56.553 basically anybody, including me right now. So the point is, 0:03:56.553 --> 0:03:59.013 these are getting so good that you can't tell the 0:03:59.013 --> 0:04:06.063 difference between reality and doesn't really matter for this right now. Um, 0:04:06.063 --> 0:04:10.503 this one maybe kind of does. The question is what 0:04:10.503 --> 0:04:13.473 happens when it's a thing that really matters? Like did 0:04:13.473 --> 0:04:18.633 a crime actually occur? Um, who is the assailant? Uh, 0:04:18.633 --> 0:04:22.803 evidence of something bad happening? Where? Where we're going to 0:04:22.803 --> 0:04:26.253 use pictures or video as part of the evidence for 0:04:26.283 --> 0:04:29.693 that crime. That's when it starts to really, really matter. 0:04:29.693 --> 0:04:33.623 And also for politics as well. Um, the worst possible 0:04:33.623 --> 0:04:39.503 one is, is like the absolute worst one is where 0:04:39.503 --> 0:04:45.773 you have, um, a video of Trump saying, you know, 0:04:45.803 --> 0:04:48.443 it looks like we're going to have to attack Russia, 0:04:48.653 --> 0:04:54.053 pre-emptive nuclear strike. And it's very believable. And it freaks 0:04:54.053 --> 0:04:57.563 somebody out and that person freaks out Putin, and something 0:04:57.563 --> 0:05:00.353 goes off or something similar to that. Maybe it's not 0:05:00.353 --> 0:05:04.463 a nuclear war, but something where there's an actual threat 0:05:04.463 --> 0:05:08.213 being made and it causes the other person to respond. 0:05:08.213 --> 0:05:14.453 So it's a trigger point for kinetic action that that's 0:05:15.533 --> 0:05:20.303 pretty serious. And we have the tech now to be 0:05:20.303 --> 0:05:22.733 able to do that. Um, not everyone could do it, 0:05:22.733 --> 0:05:26.063 but it's getting pretty close. And it's much easier to 0:05:26.063 --> 0:05:28.463 do with images than it is for video. But the 0:05:28.463 --> 0:05:31.613 point is, this is getting very, very real. No longer.