Deepfakes are a trend that are becoming scarily accurate.
Basically, Deep fakes are Artificial intelligence, synthesized fakes where computers synthesize
fake content.
You can actually train computers to make them, you don’t even need to do it manually anymore.
You can now take a video of one person, and a video of another person, pick a destination,
but then swap the faces.
The technology can be used to alter a piece of footage to put the face of an important
person on practically anything, including adult films.
This is scary, this, is the dark truth about deep fakes.
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Today, we’re going to talk about a phenomenon known as deepfakes.
We touched on this topic a little in one of our older videos, Daisy Ridley Adult film
tape leaked online – hoax exposed.
Daisy ridley, the actress who starred in the film Starwars the last jedi.
A reddor that goes by deepfakes is known for creating fake adult films by using videos
of pornstars and swapping the face with a celebrity so that it looks like the person
in the film is the actual celebrity.
He’s made on of maisley Williams, taylor swift and gal gadot.
The term deepfakes, came from the name of this reddit user, whos creations were actually
pretty convincing.
This has obviously brutal consequences for celebrities.
Anyone with a compter science background and instructions can do this.
And now, theres a deepfakes app.
But I wouldn’t be so quick to look it up and do it.
According to Andrew murray, professor of law at the London school of economics, AI porn
could be illegal, but there are no current laws against it because its still a relatively
new thing.
But, according to murray, putting an identifiable persons face on to images o others and sharing
them publicly is a breach of data protection law.
Deepfakes can also be seen as an invasion of privacy and harassment.
Once these videos are put on the internet, they are really difficult to remove.
Deepfakes could be used to humiliate anyone and everyone, not just celebrities.
You could take the image of your ex girlfriends face and put it on the body of a pornstar.
You could take the image of your ex boyfriends face, and put it on the face of another man,
and stage a video of him beating you up and use it as evidence in court against him.
But one consequence I haven’t thought of before is how deepfakes could be used to start
a war.
Shane Dawson touched on this in his new conspiracy theories video.
Deepfakes and their increasing level of accuracy present a very scary problem.
Someone who, lets say does a really accurate donald trump impression, could record themselves
making a threat toward another country.
Then they could use some deepfake software to use old footage of donald trump and sort
of merge the two files together, so that the result is a video of donald trump making a
threat of war toward, lets say, north korea.
North korea might not know about deepfake technology yet, so they could see a video
of donald trump making a threat, and see it as an act of war, and fire a nuclear weapon
at the US, when really, all they were watching was a very accurate deepfake.
Before you know it, world war 3 has begun, and it all started because someone made a
fake video of donald trump The pentagon is trying to tackle this problem
through the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, or darpa.
They are working with Americas biggest research institutions to find a way to combat deepfakes,
first, by figuring out how to make them, and then, figuring out how to spot them.
At SRI international, a team is developing the technology that is capable of spotting
a deepfake.
They are training computers to do just that.
Well guys, this is honestly some really scary stuff, tell me your thoughts down there in
the comments but for now, I’m going to reply to some comments from our video Did nasa cover
up an asteroid hitting earth this Friday?
Ms Hope – we all died in 2012 – charlotte is just a simulation.
Or am I a deepfake.
Beast – found you through the leon lush video about luxury pranks and I have to say
I love this news channel.
Its like drugs I cant stop watching.
Reverse flash – please stop giving me anxiety and panic attacks.
NEVER Mapping news – potato queen, how do you
make apocalyptic videos funny.
Sarcasm and practice.
Christian – charlotte, drop us a funny joke.
What kind of potato is always looking for a fight, an agitator.