People are crazy so far beyond my comprehension it’s not funny.
I look around and notice real world problems, real people suffering in ever increasing numbers, Earth onetime cornucopia has morphed into a global landscape of biosphere catastrophes over every horizon. Does anyone care? Lip service isn’t caring. Gotta feel it in your viscera and bones to be able to care.
Stuff that we are absolutely dependent on for health and prosperity, but we seem hell bend on destroying the foundations of our prosperity fast as we can.
Our climate is changing faster and harder than even scientists would have dared suggest a few decades back. It’s impacting real world stuff, but we treat it as a side show, instead of front and center on everyone’s mind.
Instead we have this disconnected global club of sociopathic billionaires obsessed with their BDGs.
Obsequious paranoid leaders, nay puppets, at the top, and the money men pulling the strings. So we wind up with ever new levels of human insanity. Take for example:
CNN’s Selina Wang investigates the campaign of anti-US deepfake newscasts sent out by pro-China bot accounts on Twitter and Facebook, though their origin is unknown.
Feb 12, 2023 #CNN #news
Increasing Threats of Deepfake Identities
(a study by the Department of Homeland Security)
Abstract
Deepfakes, an emergent type of threat falling under the greater and more pervasive umbrella of synthetic media, utilize a form of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to create believable, realistic videos, pictures, audio, and text of events which never happened.
Many applications of synthetic media represent innocent forms of entertainment, but others carry risk.
The threat of Deepfakes and synthetic media comes not from the technology used to create it, but from people’s natural inclination to believe what they see, and as a result deepfakes and synthetic media do not need to be particularly advanced or believable in order to be effective in spreading mis/disinformation.
Based on numerous interviews conducted with experts in the field, it is apparent that the severity and urgency of the current threat from synthetic media depends on the exposure, perspective, and position of who you ask. The spectrum of concerns ranged from “an urgent threat” to “don’t panic, just be prepared.”
To help customers understand how a potential threat might arise, and what that threat might look like, we considered a number of scenarios specific to the arenas of commerce, society, and national security.
The likelihood of any one of these scenarios occurring and succeeding will undoubtedly increase as the cost and other resources needed to produce usable deepfakes simultaneously decreases - just as synthetic media became easier to create as non-AI/ML techniques became more readily available.
In line with the multifaceted nature of the problem, there is no one single or universal solution, though elements of technological innovation, education, and regulation must comprise part of any detection and mitigation measures.
In order to have success there will have to be significant cooperation among stakeholders in the private and public sectors to overcome current obstacles such as “stovepiping” and to ultimately protect ourselves from these emerging threats while protecting civil liberties.
We were warned, healthy democracy depends upon an informed and engaged population. We’ve lost that.
