S1: Discussing Trump shared a fake image. Oh. Oh man, I
S1: didn't put the link. I just got an email about this.
S1: Didn't put the link. Oh, man. Whatever fake image of
S1: Harris speaking at a communist event. All right, let me
S1: let me find this thing. Trump. Share. See? Yeah, look
S1: at that. Look at that. I mean, does anyone think
S1: she would actually go to an event like that? Well,
S1: first of all, yeah, this this is what I said
S1: actually in the piece, right? Um, one, lots of people
S1: will believe it's real. And two, current tech can already
S1: make more believable ones than this. So this isn't the
S1: actual problem. The actual problem is when it gets much worse. Um. Oh,
S1: here's the other one that they were sharing. Um, watch
S1: this one. Trump share Taylor Swift. Should be enough, right?
S1: No links. Yeah. Look at this. Look at this. So
S1: we've been talking about for years. I went looking for
S1: this post where I first started talking about this. I
S1: couldn't find it. So. Beehive, fix your search, please. Uh,
S1: couldn't find it with Google either, so that kind of annoying. Anyway,
S1: I wrote about basically deep fakes becoming an issue because
S1: we're not going to be able to believe things. It's
S1: so obvious now. It's not even a good post, but
S1: it was very early. This was like two years ago.
S1: I was talking about this. Um, but anyway, everyone knows now. Uh,
S1: and here is the actual. It's just now starting to matter. Okay,
S1: look at this picture. The top right one that looks
S1: like an actual, like event. This person's got his phone.
S1: He's got his foot sticking out. That looks super real.
S1: Super real Swifties for Trump. Now, you don't be funny
S1: is if that was if that was was actually real
S1: like some okay the bottom left definitely not real okay.
S1: They're probably none of these are probably real. Just to
S1: be very clear about, you know, disinformation or whatever. But, um,
S1: the point is you can make these. Oh, yeah, this
S1: bottom right one also looks super real. The bottom left
S1: one does not because that Swifties for Trump looks like
S1: To clear, like the white of the text just looks
S1: a little bit too artificial. But this one Swifties for
S1: Trump it's got shadow on it. The T is hidden
S1: because it's on the other side of her body, so
S1: that one looks real. It's actually the same person as this. Honestly,
S1: these two look really, really good that that would trick
S1: basically anybody, including me right now. So the point is,
S1: these are getting so good that you can't tell the
S1: difference between reality and doesn't really matter for this right now. Um,
S1: this one maybe kind of does. The question is what
S1: happens when it's a thing that really matters? Like did
S1: a crime actually occur? Um, who is the assailant? Uh,
S1: evidence of something bad happening? Where? Where we're going to
S1: use pictures or video as part of the evidence for
S1: that crime. That's when it starts to really, really matter.
S1: And also for politics as well. Um, the worst possible
S1: one is, is like the absolute worst one is where
S1: you have, um, a video of Trump saying, you know,
S1: it looks like we're going to have to attack Russia,
S1: pre-emptive nuclear strike. And it's very believable. And it freaks
S1: somebody out and that person freaks out Putin, and something
S1: goes off or something similar to that. Maybe it's not
S1: a nuclear war, but something where there's an actual threat
S1: being made and it causes the other person to respond.
S1: So it's a trigger point for kinetic action that that's
S1: pretty serious. And we have the tech now to be
S1: able to do that. Um, not everyone could do it,
S1: but it's getting pretty close. And it's much easier to
S1: do with images than it is for video. But the
S1: point is, this is getting very, very real. No longer.