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From 2019 to 2020, deepfake videos grew 6,820x (!), from 14,678 videos to 100 million videos. They began to invade mainstream internet platforms. Tom Cruise, for example, isn’t on TikTok. But you’d be forgiven for thinking he is: the account @deeptomcruise posts (very convincing) deepfakes of Tom Cruise.
Substack • The Rise of Synthetic Media & Digital Creators
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When I spoke with Clinton recently about QAnon, she said, “I just get under their skin unlike anybody else … If I didn’t have Secret Service protection going through my mail, finding weird stuff, tracking the threats against me—which are still very high—I would be worried.” She has come to realize that the invented reality in which conspiracy theor
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“I don’t think we’re ready,” Mr. Schmidt said. “This problem is going to get much worse over the next few years. Maybe or maybe not by November, but certainly in the next cycle.”
Experts say technology used to create deepfakes — the result of enormous investment by many of the world’s largest companies — will always outpace technology designed to detect disinformation.
Lil Miquela got me thinking about the difference between her account and a politician’s. I’d go so far as to say that most politicians' social media accounts feel more fake than Lil Miquela’s. Politicians pose as “people” on social media even though there’s usually a team managing their online presence. There are some exceptions, of course. Trump a... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • You Can Handle the Post-Truth: A Pocket Guide to the Surreal Internet
Miquela is a caricature of many users’ own Insta presence. We strive for and fawn over her exaggerated life, but ignore the warning: it’s not real.
Matt Klein • The Problematic Fakery Of Lil Miquela Explained — An Exploration Of Virtual Influencers and Realness
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Opportunistic bad actors — anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers,conspiracy theorists, misogynists, racists, xenophobes, trolls, partisan extremists, scammers, and pedophiles — have taken advantage. Facebook and YouTube continually tweak their algorithms, use machine learning to detect spam and abuse, and spend billions of dollars hiring tens of thousands of... See more
Sriram Krishnan • How to Save the Internet
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