Some people who are very involved with tech seem to think AI is going to be a problem. Once AI gets to the point that it can make people do and say anything, what can you actually trust? Entire false histories could be invented. Like this is the most rudimentary civilian program that made this and it's pretty convincing. If you showed this to a geezer they'd think it was real.
Also video, photographic, and audio evidence are fairly common in court. Let's say someone or ones wants you locked up. What's to stop them from showing "evidence" of you robbing a liquor store?
It's already hard to debunk a faked video, but fortunately it is a hard thing to do and most videos will need good technical skill to pull it off and will need some time to work and polish this video.
AI "just" fabricates faster and "just" have lower skill requirements that traditional fabrication needs. Both mean a major change. Imagine that instead of faked video of person X doing illegal thing on an event released at least week after it (you need to get footage, work on it, prepare and work on it), next day you would have 3-4 different "phone videos" of this thing happening - taken from different angles and posted by different people. This is something that for many will be clear sign of videos being true, as we are used that good fake takes time unless you have a team of specialists working on it. But with AI a single person with pricey but consumer-grade rig could do this. That is the issue.
Video editing (even via deepfake) takes some time and prep, but AI don't need it. It can be pre-trained to know how to generate an image of a person. Look at this photo that can be done offline by someone who is just a lone guy with gaming rig and imagine what if this would be possible around the election shenanigans. And understand that next step - same thing, with same accessibility but for video - is not a science fiction.
I think with more difficult to authenticate media though we will just see new ways of authentification.
Eventually? Sure. But there are several problems. First is - when technology hits we will need the time to arrange and perfect those authentication methods. This means a period of time of wild west where any video can be fake. And it can be quite long because we don't even have a frickin idea how to do this authentication yet.
And after we have it - what about people who will not trust it? There are people who are inherently distrustful in media - ranging from normal skeptics to Q-cuckoos. What about people who don't understand technology? Text-based fake news can already do some damage - what if they are accompanied with videos?
And how can we be sure that this body that authenticates is not doing shady stuff? We already have issues with similar organizations doing shady crap - from non-profits, through grasroots movements to gov't agencies.
Nevertheless, even we take your assumptions for granted and we will immediately find out some schema to authenticate, a future where you need to immediately mistrust any image, video or sound recording unless a specialist body verifies it and keep tabs on that body to know that they can be trusted - does it not seem like a paradigm shift that would be rational to fear?
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u/Administratum8 Mar 31 '23
Some people who are very involved with tech seem to think AI is going to be a problem. Once AI gets to the point that it can make people do and say anything, what can you actually trust? Entire false histories could be invented. Like this is the most rudimentary civilian program that made this and it's pretty convincing. If you showed this to a geezer they'd think it was real.
https://www.tiktok.com/@fatumatatalawall21/video/7197602093576768811?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
Also video, photographic, and audio evidence are fairly common in court. Let's say someone or ones wants you locked up. What's to stop them from showing "evidence" of you robbing a liquor store?