AI faked videos are going to be a very big problem

[Nevilledog]

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This AI-generated video, circulating on Russian Telegram, claims to show a France 24 broadcast in which a presenter announces President Macron has cancelled a scheduled visit to Ukraine over fears of an assassination attempt.

France 24 never aired this, it's totally fake.


2:03 PM · Feb 15, 2024

This tweet is from a BBC fact checker.

[Iwasthere]

1. Yep. They have BIG plans for ai fake bs

[Mossfern]

2. The Atlantic had a very gripping article about this

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

I don't know if there's a paywall.

Technology
The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.
By Adrienne LaFrance

Facebook (now Meta) has become an avatar of all that is wrong with Silicon Valley. Its self-interested role in spreading global disinformation is an ongoing crisis. Recall, too, the company’s secret mood-manipulation experiment in 2012, which deliberately tinkered with what users saw in their News Feed in order to measure how Facebook could influence people’s emotional states without their knowledge. Or its participation in inciting genocide in Myanmar in 2017. Or its use as a clubhouse for planning and executing the January 6, 2021, insurrection. (In Facebook’s early days, Zuckerberg listed “revolutions” among his interests. This was around the time that he had a business card printed with I’M CEO, BITCH.)[

[Nevilledog]

4. No paywall link - Good article

https://archive.li/TcXKA

[highplainsdem]

3. And OpenAI just unveiled the best text-to-image generator yet. Not in public release yet, but

they want to release it as a product they can charge for soon:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143194743

[Nevilledog]

5. Just found a Twitter thread with lots of examples

Link to tweet

Cool and scary at the same time

[highplainsdem]

6. My LBN thread links to an OpenAI page with dozens of samples, including those in

that Twitter thread, and I copied in a tweet showing the video of the cat walking.

Yes, they're both cool and scary.