Deepfakes weaponised to target Pakistan's women leaders(france24.com) |
Deepfakes weaponised to target Pakistan's women leaders(france24.com) |
FYI, Pakistan is also in the process of releasing it's version of China's Great Firewall and has heavily leveraged the "AI Safety" argument for that [0][1].
Also, it's quite rich that a PMLN minister in Punjab is complaining about electoral safety when her party viciously cracked down on the PTI.
[0] - https://tribune.com.pk/story/2467727/rs20b-sought-to-boost-c...
[1] - https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Telecommunication/Pakistan-...
Also, not having statues of naked women and/or naked men in public streets is morally wrong.
runs an extortion ring where 100s of judges, politicians etc are honey trapped & copious videos are made. She (& her husband) have OPENLY bragged about this, FOR YEARS. 1 judge (whose video was released by her team) committed suicide 3 years ago. The rest of the judges all toe the line (hence the laughable "lawfare" vs Imran Khan).
She makes J Edgar Hoover seem like a novice. Just keep that in mind ...
She even does it to the military top brass, and they do it to her & her goons. In short, they're all low-rent garbage, so save your tears for the more worthwhile 1000s of political prisoners (MANY of whom are female) of this military-led, crime-family infested, American State Dept sponsored gang of thieves & cutthroats (eg: witness recent Islamabad massacre, helpfully ignored by the mainstream US media)
And no, i do not see the use of real photos and video to be material to this specific discussion.
I think this issue is a great way to evaluate the values and integrity of a society.
I would also like to point out again that people still developing and productizing deepfake software or tools that underpin them, should take the morally only correct path and stop, and retract their work. It's a considerable net negative on society.
Hard to do if its happening to everyone
We can argue it shouldn't be considered a crime and I'd argue deepfakes should not be a crime. I'd also argue considering them so is close to "thought police".
And, I'd argue fighting them is a losing cause. They get easier and easier to make daily. Lots of papers at the most recent Siggraph on how to take a single photo and turn it into an deepfake, oh, I mean avatar for a game, model for virtual clothes fitting, etc...
How do you reach that conclusion? Deepfakes get shared, which has real consequences for people.
Perhaps images taken in the future by digital cameras need to come with an IR depth map as well, which would make it harder to fake.
4k monitors are cheap these days, as are used 35mm film cameras. I bet you could build the system estebank mentioned for less than $500.
Adding a depth map to a simulated image sounds cheaper than adding it to a real image.
The way they solve this issue in court is having the photographer lay a foundation by swearing to the authenticity of the image.