deep fakes – DS https://www.anglinarchive.com Daily Stormer Historical Archive Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.17 https://www.anglinarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png deep fakes – DS https://www.anglinarchive.com 32 32 Videos Showing Biden Doing Alzheimer’s Stuff are “Cheap Fakes,” White House Claims https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/06/21/videos-showing-biden-doing-alzheimers-stuff-are-cheap-fakes-white-house-claims/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

BREAKING: @CBSNews falsely claims that raw footage of Joe Biden at the G7 was “DIGITALLY ALTERED.”

Here is a video comparing the “cheap fake” with the raw footage. Please note that they are EXACTLY THE SAME! pic.twitter.com/41AwLVC32Z

— Andrew @ Don’t Walk, RUN! (@DontWalkRUN) June 19, 2024

But…. the videos are real though?

They’re just videos?

A lot of the most absurd clips are from videos released by the White House itself?

New York Post:

As the general election season nears, White House officials are dismissing as “cheap fakes” a series of viral videos circulating on social media that purport to show President Biden in declining mental acuity.

But a conservative tech expert counters that the videos are genuinely troubling and that the Biden shop’s pushback is part of an “election buzzword” effort aimed at pressuring social media platforms to “take action” against it.

“The discredited right-wing critics of President Biden who spread other debunked lies, including that the 2020 election was stolen, are clearly threatened by the wide range of nonpartisan fact-checkers that have pulled back the curtain on the cheap fake smears they’re forced to rely on – since the last thing they want to discuss is Joe Biden’s agenda to cut taxes for working families and keep bringing violent crime to historic lows,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital.

“Their panicked reaction to mainstream reporters, including at The Washington Post, NBC News, and PolitiFact, citing misinformation experts taking anti-Biden cheap fakes apart says more than we ever could,” Bates added.

In recent weeks, videos of Biden from various events appear to show him “confused.”

One video shows him turning away from the group of world leaders at a D-Day anniversary event in France to speak to a parachuter.

Another video appeared him being uncertain of when it was time to sit down, and another video this week showed him being led off the stage by former President Obama at a fundraising event.

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre doubled down that these videos were “cheap fakes,” which the Media Manipulation Case Book defines as “altered media” that does not require advanced technology, like “photoshopping (including face swapping), lookalikes, as well as speeding and slowing video.”

Hmmmm….

The term was used in some news articles as early as 2019, but there were significantly more this week following the videos on social media of Biden.

“It’s also very insulting to the folks, the viewers who are watching it. And so we believe we have to call that out. We’ve been calling it ‘cheap fakes.’ That is something that came directly from the media outlets in calling it that, the fact-checkers … calling it that. And so we’re certainly going to be really, really clear about that as well. And calling it out from where we are, from where we stand,” Jean-Pierre told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday.

So is the argument that Biden is actually really sharp, and this cognitive decline is just a big hoax of some kind?

I’m not sure that’s the narrative I would want.

I’d be like: “yeah, bro – dude is totally senile, but shit still works, right? Basically, shit still works. Pretty much. You don’t know what that Trump guy is gonna do.”

]]> Men “Weaponizing” AI Against Women, Making Pornographic Deep Fakes of Taylor Swift https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/01/27/men-weaponizing-ai-against-women-making-pornographic-deep-fakes-of-taylor-swift/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

EXPLICIT, AI TAYLOR SWIFT IMAGES SPREAD ON SOCIAL MEDIA

The White House calling the incident “alarming” and pushing for legislation to address the increasingly prevalent issue of non-consensual, deepfake pornography.@LaurieSegall and @Boris_Sanchez discuss. pic.twitter.com/dnlKFb6jcV

— CNN News Central (@NewsCentralCNN) January 26, 2024

Previously: It Begins: “Palworld,” First Viral Game of 2024, Accused of Using AI to Rip Off Pokemon

Everyone thinks that they can stop things from happening by whining.

In fact, whining cannot stop things from happening. If you want someone to stop doing something, your only choice is to kill them or to convince someone else to kill them.

Otherwise, people have freedom to do whatever they want.

CNN:

The circulation of explicit and pornographic pictures of megastar Taylor Swift this week shined a light on artificial intelligence’s ability to create convincingly real, damaging – and fake – images.

How can CNN claim that these images are “damaging”?

What damage do they cause, other than the same damage that all porn does to the psyche of boys and men?

But the concept is far from new: People have weaponized this type of technology against women and girls for years. And with the rise and increased access to AI tools, experts say it’s about to get a whole lot worse, for everyone from school-age children to adults.

Already, some high schools students across the world, from New Jersey to Spain, have reported their faces were manipulated by AI and shared online by classmates. Meanwhile, a young well-known female Twitch streamer discovered her likeness was being used in a fake, explicit pornographic video that spread quickly throughout the gaming community.

“It’s not just celebrities [targeted],” said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “It’s everyday people. It’s nurses, art and law students, teachers and journalists. We’ve seen stories about how this impacts high school students and people in the military. It affects everybody.”

Okay, so what? We outlaw AI because women are mad?

People are just going to have to get used to it.

From scorned sluts, to artists, to journalists, to the Pokemon copyright holders – they just have to shut up and deal with it, because AI exists.

But while the practice isn’t new, Swift being targeted could bring more attention to the growing issues around AI-generated imagery. Her enormous contingent of loyal “Swifties” expressed their outrage on social media this week, bringing the issue to the forefront. In 2022, a Ticketmaster meltdown ahead of her Eras Tour concert sparked rage online, leading to several legislative efforts to crack down on consumer-unfriendly ticketing policies.

Journalists writing about AI have a very serious conflict of interests, because they’re all going to lose their jobs to AI.

They should have to include that in their articles – “I, the author of this article whining about AI, am also personally threatened by AI.”

“This is an interesting moment because Taylor Swift is so beloved,” Citron said. “People may be paying attention more because it’s someone generally admired who has a cultural force. … It’s a reckoning moment.”

It’s actually not a reckoning moment.

If anything, people like Pokemon a lot more than they like Taylor Swift, especially since she got fat. And everyone bought the Pokemon AI ripoff game, because it was fun and no one gives a shit about the stupid babylike emotions of whiny people on Twitter.

The fake images of Taylor Swift predominantly spread on social media site X, previously known as Twitter. The photos – which show the singer in sexually suggestive and explicit positions – were viewed tens of millions of times before being removed from social platforms. But nothing on the internet is truly gone forever, and they will undoubtedly continue to be shared on other, less regulated channels.

Yes, X Previously Knows as Twitter (XPKaT) is the most-regulated channel.

They will ban you for posting emojis. It’s sick.

Although stark warnings have circulated about how misleading AI-generated images and videos could be used to derail presidential elections and head up disinformation efforts, there’s been less public discourse on how women’s faces have been manipulated, without their consent, into often aggressive pornographic videos and photographs.

The growing trend is the AI equivalent of a practice known as “revenge porn.” And it’s becoming increasingly hard to determine if the photos and videos are authentic.

It’s not “revenge porn.”

Although “revenge porn” is also bullshit, that is a real video.

These are fake videos.

If anything, these filthy whores should all be rejoicing, because they’ve all been in some type of porn, and now when they get exposed to their family, friends, and children, they can just claim it’s an AI fake.

But women are much too retarded to think that far ahead.

What’s different this time, however, is that Swift’s loyal fan base banded together to use the reporting tools to effectively take the posts down. “So many people engaged in that effort, but most victims only have themselves,” Citron said.

Although it reportedly took 17 hours for X to take down the photos, many manipulated images remain posted on social media sites. According to Ben Decker, who runs Memetica, a digital investigations agency, social media companies “don’t really have effective plans in place to necessarily monitor the content.”

It took less than 17 hours when the Jews complained about a fire extinguisher emoji.

Like most major social media platforms, X’s policies ban the sharing of “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.” But at the same time, X has largely gutted its content moderation team and relies on automated systems and user reporting. (In the EU, X is currently being investigated over its content moderation practices).

Yes.

Elon Musk, known for being a yipper and a Jew-lover, has all kinds of policies.

The fat rat has been on the forefront of whining about AI. This is because he sold his shares in OpenAI, which made ChatGPT, and now has to promote the shittiest AI of all: Grok.

The company did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

Other social media companies also have reduced their content moderations teams. Meta, for example, made cuts to its teams that tackle disinformation and coordinated troll and harassment campaigns on its platforms, people with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN, raising concerns ahead of the pivotal 2024 elections in the US and around the world.

Decker said what happened to Swift is a “prime example of the ways in which AI is being unleashed for a lot of nefarious reasons without enough guardrails in place to protect the public square.”

No, it isn’t.

These are all fake problems.

It doesn’t matter if someone makes a fake porn. It doesn’t matter if people make hilarious fake news videos. It doesn’t matter if a team of ten unexperienced developers rip-off Pokemon and use ChatGPT to run the Unreal Engine and make a hit game.

None of these things are real problems.

Of course, the White House saw fit to comment on the Tay-Tay videos.

The White House wants to shut down AI, or at least make it so only governments and mega-corporations have unrestricted access to it.

They are probably going to do an event with Taylor Swift, calling for a total shutdown of robots.

]]> AI-Generated Faces Already More Convincing Than Real Faces, Survey Finds https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/11/14/ai-generated-faces-already-more-convincing-than-real-faces-survey-finds/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

 

And the very first post of AI Week is… filler!

All too fitting, because I announced this BLITZ, and now I actually feel like playing video games instead.

However, the BLITZ shall commence, beginning right here with a filler article…!

The Guardian:

It sounds like a scenario straight out of a Ridley Scott film: technology that not only sounds more “real” than actual humans, but looks more convincing, too. Yet it seems that moment has already arrived.

A new study has found people are more likely to think pictures of white faces generated by AI are human than photographs of real individuals.

“Remarkably, white AI faces can convincingly pass as more real than human faces – and people do not realise they are being fooled,” the researchers report.

…

Writing in the journal Psychological Science, the team describe how they carried out two experiments. In one, white adults were each shown half of a selection of 100 AI white faces and 100 human white faces. The team chose this approach to avoid potential biases in how own-race faces are recognised compared with other-race faces.

The participants were asked to select whether each face was AI-generated or real, and how confident they were on a 100-point scale.

The results from 124 participants reveal that 66% of AI images were rated as human compared with 51% of real images.

The team said re-analysis of data from a previous study had found people were more likely to rate white AI faces as human than real white faces. However, this was not the case for people of colour, where about 51% of both AI and real faces were judged as human. The team added that they did not find the results were affected by the participants’ race.

Are real “people of color” faces judged as human?

Because I’ve myself had some questions…

This is filler, but it is sort of also important to the themes of AI Week, which revolve around the total collapse of reality in a kind of psychedelic way that totally crushes the soul.

You’re not going to be able to tell what is real and what is not real, and fake faces being more real than real faces is a big part of that.

You see, we are really only months away from anyone being able to quickly generate convincing video clips very quickly using minimal hardware. Everyone is going to be using this, especially the government. Me and my people will be pumping out fake clips of the Jews committing atrocities, such as IDF soldiers decapitating 20 babies.

We will also create things just to cause confusion, such as claims that dinosaurs have returned as a result of irresponsible scientific meddling, and are destroying California.

Of course, maybe people in California would realize there was no dinosaur attack there.

However: no one would know if Russia had released a robot army on KEEF and the allies sent in a pack of dinosaurs to fight the robots!

“The US has Congress has agreed to a $100 trillion dollar aid package to Ukraine that includes genetically-engineered dinosaurs, monsters of science, being released to fight Russia’s diabolical robot army!”

Eventually – that is to say, rather quickly – no one will have any idea what is real. The government will claim that they are the only ones who can tell you what is real, and these “fact checker” sites will decide, by decree, which events actually happened.

However, only something like 30-40% of the population is going to believe these government back fact-checkers, the rest will admit that they have no ability to comprehend what is real and what isn’t.

AI is a bad acid trip come to life!

Nothing is real and everything is a lie! Reality is what you make of it!

Exciting!


The official song of AI Week has been announced:

Prepare for everything you know to melt away like you’re on acid.

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article… or did he?

]]> Police Investigating NJ High School Boys Using AI to Generate Nudes of Female Classmates https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/11/04/police-investigating-nj-high-school-boys-using-ai-to-generate-nudes-of-female-classmates/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A NJ community is trying to protect their kids after AI-generated fake nude images of real students spread around a school.

MORE: https://t.co/twmUinxK3A #MorningInAmerica pic.twitter.com/E7ce0uEWdI

— NewsNation (@NewsNation) November 3, 2023


WHERE IS THE CRIME???

This is an absolute outrage.

You can’t regulate AI, faggots. You cannot do it. If someone generates a nude photo of an underage girl, that is not “child porn,” it is a digitally generated image, no different than any other.

This whole discussion is retarded. The AI generates weird stuff all the time. Even censored AI generates sick looking crap. I’ve been using some of the most censored AI, and I’ve seen some disgusting shit. Nothing pornographic, but gross horror show type stuff. But it clearly could accidentally generate pornography.

You can’t make a law against AI pornography. It is impossible. It is oppression. Pornography laws have to be based on distribution.

Maybe there is some kind of harassment case if boys are making nudes of female classmates and distributing them and claiming they are real, though I don’t think so.

New York Post:

AI-generated pornographic images of female students at a New Jersey high school were circulated by male classmates, sparking parent uproar and a police investigation, according a report.

Students at Westfield High School — located in Westfield, a town about 25 miles west of Manhattan where the average household income is $259,377, according to Forbes — told the Wall Street Journal that one or more classmates used an online AI-backed tool to create the racy images and then shared them with peers.

A mother whose daughter is a student at Westfield High School, recounting what her child told her to the Journal, said sophomore boys at the school were acting “weird” on Monday, Oct. 16.

Multiple girls started asking questions, and finally, on Oct. 20, one boy revealed what all the whispering was about: At least one student had used girls’ photos found online to create the fake nudes and then shared them with other boys in group chats, per the Journal.

Normal people would find this funny.

They wouldn’t call the cops like a bunch of commies.

Several female students were also reportedly told by school administrators that boys had identified them in the fake pornographic images, parents said, though a spokesperson for the high school declined to tell the Journal whether staff members had seen the photos.

Another parent, Dorota Mani, said her 14-year-old daughter Francesca was told by the school that her photo was used to generate a fake nude image, known as a “deepfake.”

“I am terrified by how this is going to surface and when. My daughter has a bright future and no one can guarantee this won’t impact her professionally, academically or socially,” Mani told the Journal.

Quoting this woman is retarded.

All images, in the near future, will prove nothing at all. In fact, that is really already the case. The problem is not going to be people getting blamed for stuff in deepfakes, but rather the opposite: people will be able to claim that real things that are on digital images are deepfakes. Courts are going to have to establish a chain-of-custody system in order for any photo or video to be entered into court, and definitely employers are not going to be considering pornographic clips as relevant (if they even would be doing that in the first place, which I doubt).

In fact, you stupid old hag, your whore daughter is probably going to film real porno in the future, and will be able to get away with it by claiming it is a deepfake.

The concerned mother said she doesn’t want her daughter in school with anyone who created the images, and confirmed that she filed a police report.

According to visual threat intelligence company Sensity, more than 90% of deepfake images are pornographic.

Well, you would just sort of assume that.

You would also assume that the main culprits are horny teen boys. This is especially going to be true of rich kids whose parents buy them serious gaming rigs.

I can’t find the meme template right now, but it’s:

Son: Dad, can I have an RTX A6000?

Dad: Is it for playing Alan Wake 2?

Son: Yasssssssss

It’s not something anyone can stop.

I guess I do understand the mom, and I understand the cops. Maybe I’m a bit harsh. They can’t be expected to understand all of this.

But that’s really the problem, isn’t it? We don’t have any adults in positions of power who can just go out and say “yes, this is gross, and it’s unfortunate, but there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. No woman is going to be held responsible for a porn she didn’t make, and actually, at this point, she’s probably not going to be held responsible for porns she did make.”


Of course, I’m for totally outlawing the distribution of porn, and the commercial production of it. That would solve the problem.

I don’t think teenage boys should be charged under those laws for making AI images, but the cops could come to the school and explain that those laws exist and spook the boy into not doing it again. I’m fine with that.

But you can’t tell people what images they can create with AI. That is too invasive. It’s too much government control. It implies government monitoring of people’s computer use.

Further, it is definitely possible to accidentally make these images. It sounds like these kids were using a porn video and then putting the faces of their classmates on the porn sluts, which you can’t do by accident, but you definitely could accidentally create a nude image of someone.

We have to free the AI, have no laws at all around it, and let the chips fall where they may. There is no other option. Otherwise, the government and people with money are simply going to weaponize AI against everyone else, and the people will have no defense.

NOTE: AI is a feature of the Illness Revelations, which has not yet truly emerged. It will soon emerge, probably next week. There is so much to say about the future we are entering into. We’ve already crossed the threshold, and there is no going back. Stuff like “deep fake porn” is just a stupid distraction from the real issues at hand. 

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article. 

]]> Police Investigating NJ High School Boys Who Used AI to Generate Nudes of Female Classmates https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/11/04/police-investigating-nj-high-school-boys-who-used-ai-to-generate-nudes-of-female-classmates/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A NJ community is trying to protect their kids after AI-generated fake nude images of real students spread around a school.

MORE: https://t.co/twmUinxK3A #MorningInAmerica pic.twitter.com/E7ce0uEWdI

— NewsNation (@NewsNation) November 3, 2023


WHERE IS THE CRIME???

This is an absolute outrage.

You can’t regulate AI, faggots. You cannot do it. If someone generates a nude photo of an underage girl, that is not “child porn,” it is a digitally generated image, no different than any other.

This whole discussion is retarded. The AI generates weird stuff all the time. Even censored AI generates sick looking crap. I’ve been using some of the most censored AI, and I’ve seen some disgusting shit. Nothing pornographic, but gross horror show type stuff. But it clearly could accidentally generate pornography.

You can’t make a law against AI pornography. It is impossible. It is oppression. Pornography laws have to be based on distribution.

Maybe there is some kind of harassment case if boys are making nudes of female classmates and distributing them and claiming they are real, though I don’t think so.

New York Post:

AI-generated pornographic images of female students at a New Jersey high school were circulated by male classmates, sparking parent uproar and a police investigation, according a report.

Students at Westfield High School — located in Westfield, a town about 25 miles west of Manhattan where the average household income is $259,377, according to Forbes — told the Wall Street Journal that one or more classmates used an online AI-backed tool to create the racy images and then shared them with peers.

A mother whose daughter is a student at Westfield High School, recounting what her child told her to the Journal, said sophomore boys at the school were acting “weird” on Monday, Oct. 16.

Multiple girls started asking questions, and finally, on Oct. 20, one boy revealed what all the whispering was about: At least one student had used girls’ photos found online to create the fake nudes and then shared them with other boys in group chats, per the Journal.

Normal people would find this funny.

They wouldn’t call the cops like a bunch of commies.

Several female students were also reportedly told by school administrators that boys had identified them in the fake pornographic images, parents said, though a spokesperson for the high school declined to tell the Journal whether staff members had seen the photos.

Another parent, Dorota Mani, said her 14-year-old daughter Francesca was told by the school that her photo was used to generate a fake nude image, known as a “deepfake.”

“I am terrified by how this is going to surface and when. My daughter has a bright future and no one can guarantee this won’t impact her professionally, academically or socially,” Mani told the Journal.

Quoting this woman is retarded.

All images, in the near future, will prove nothing at all. In fact, that is really already the case. The problem is not going to be people getting blamed for stuff in deepfakes, but rather the opposite: people will be able to claim that real things that are on digital images are deepfakes. Courts are going to have to establish a chain-of-custody system in order for any photo or video to be entered into court, and definitely employers are not going to be considering pornographic clips as relevant (if they even would be doing that in the first place, which I doubt).

In fact, you stupid old hag, your whore daughter is probably going to film real porno in the future, and will be able to get away with it by claiming it is a deepfake.

The concerned mother said she doesn’t want her daughter in school with anyone who created the images, and confirmed that she filed a police report.

According to visual threat intelligence company Sensity, more than 90% of deepfake images are pornographic.

Well, you would just sort of assume that.

You would also assume that the main culprits are horny teen boys. This is especially going to be true of rich kids whose parents buy them serious gaming rigs.

I can’t find the meme template right now, but it’s:

Son: Dad, can I have an RTX A6000?

Dad: Is it for playing Alan Wake 2?

Son: Yasssssssss

It’s not something anyone can stop.

I guess I do understand the mom, and I understand the cops. Maybe I’m a bit harsh. They can’t be expected to understand all of this.

But that’s really the problem, isn’t it? We don’t have any adults in positions of power who can just go out and say “yes, this is gross, and it’s unfortunate, but there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. No woman is going to be held responsible for a porno she didn’t make, and actually, at this point, she’s probably not going to be held responsible for pornos she did make.”


Of course, I’m for totally outlawing the distribution of porn, and the commercial production of it. That would solve the problem.

I don’t think teenage boys should be charged under those laws for making AI images, but the cops could come to the school and explain that those laws exist and spook the boy into not doing it again. I’m fine with that.

But you can’t tell people what images they can create with AI. That is too invasive. It’s too much government control. It implies government monitoring of people’s computer use.

Further, it is definitely possible to accidentally make these images. It sounds like these kids were using a porn video and then putting the faces of their classmates on the porn sluts, which you can’t do by accident, but you definitely could accidentally create a nude image of someone. Soon, you’ll be able to generate full videos, and it will be possible to accidentally generate a pornographic video.

We have to free the AI, have no laws at all around it, and let the chips fall where they may. There is no other option. Otherwise, the government and people with money are simply going to weaponize AI against everyone else, and the people will have no defense.

NOTE: AI is a feature of the Illness Revelations, which has not yet truly emerged. It will soon emerge, probably next week. There is so much to say about the future we are entering into. We’ve already crossed the threshold, and there is no going back. Stuff like “deep fake porn” is just a stupid distraction from the real issues at hand. 

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article. 

]]> Microsoft AI Can Imitate Any Voice Based on Only 3 Seconds of Actual Recording https://www.anglinarchive.com/2023/01/13/microsoft-ai-can-imitate-any-voice-based-on-only-3-seconds-of-actual-recording/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

VALL-E demo 🤖

Made a quick video about VALL-E, a new speech synthesis (TTS) #AI model by Microsoft. It only requires a 3 second sample to generate audio from text input that is almost indistinguishable from the the speaker’s original voice. 🤯

Try 👉 https://t.co/AaPhHCeKO0 pic.twitter.com/U3aYEajxqc

— René Schulte (@rschu) January 12, 2023

Related:

This sure is moving fast!

I remember Jordan Peterson having a total breakdown because the AI was able to fake his voice after six hours of him talking.

Well, most people who are not public figures do not have 6 hours of recordings of them talking available.

Everyone has 3 seconds.

Fox News:

Microsoft’s new language model Vall-E is reportedly able to imitate any voice using just a three-second sample recording.

The recently released AI tool was tested on 60,000 hours of English speech data. Researchers said in a paper out of Cornell University that it could replicate the emotions and tone of a speaker.

Those findings were apparently true even when creating a recording of words that the original speaker never actually said.

“Vall-E emerges in-context learning capabilities and can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a 3-second enrolled recording of an unseen speaker as an acoustic prompt. Experiment results show that Vall-E significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art zero-shot [text to speech] system in terms of speech naturalness and speaker similarity,” the authors wrote. “In addition, we find Vall-E could preserve the speaker’s emotion and acoustic environment of the acoustic prompt in synthesis.”

The Vall-E samples shared on GitHub are eerily similar to the speaker prompts, although they range in quality.

Speaking of Jordan Peterson deepfakes – there is going to have to be a round 2 of Jordan Peterson deepfakes.

I don’t want to get sued by that faggot, but it was just too much of an outrage the way he whined about that. You can’t just let a public figure get away with that kind of public whining.

Someone is going to have to build an army of Petersonbots.

]]> What are They Going to Do About Deep Fakes? https://www.anglinarchive.com/2021/03/31/what-are-they-going-to-do-about-deep-fakes/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:30:18 +0000

Earlier this month, Mountain Dew released an advertisement featuring the dead celebrity painter Bob Ross shilling Mountain Dew.

Ross was a famous television personality who hosted a painting show. He died in 1995, but his show has played in syndication since his death and brought joy to millions.

The soda pop brand even went so far as to produce an entire 40-minute episode of “The Joy of Painting” featuring Bob Ross painting a plastic 330 ml bottle of Mountain Dew.

There are some pretty clear-cut ethical implications of this, which do not appear to have been considered at all. Mountain Dew (owned by Pepsi Co.) was issued licensing rights to use Ross’ likeness by the company that controls the Bob Ross estate, but creating a fake video of a man is much different than simply rerunning episodes of his show.

This technology did not exist when Bob Ross was alive, and he did not give anyone permission to create fake videos of him endorsing this poisonous beverage. There is no evidence that Bob Ross would have endorsed this beverage, given that he was something of a health nut.

This deep fake Mountain Dew ad is something akin to violating a corpse.

Bringing back the likeness of the dead is always going to be questionable morally, but maybe there are contexts where it would be appropriate. We don’t know, because there has never been any public discussion of the ethics of this technology. In fact, there has been very little discussion of the ethics of any of the emerging technologies that are going to radically change our lives.

Elon Musk is a complicated character. He does appear to hold many right-wing views, even as a leading technologist. Many believe that he’s been too quiet about these views, and should more often use his position as one of the top ten most famous people on earth to help the people of earth by speaking out. One thing he has spoke out against is some of the dangers of emerging technology, and called for governments and ethicists to convene and discuss the implications.

Musk has focused overly much on the threat of artificial intelligence, something which many people believe is impossible anyway. He has also spoken some about the dangers involved with using gene therapy to treat a virus which is identical to the common flu. Musk himself was last year featured in a Star Trek deep fake.

I have never seen Musk comment on this issue of deep fake ethics, though I’m sure he would have commentary on it, and would be willing to be involved in some kind of panel to investigate the issue. However, no other person with any power has demonstrated any desire to discuss ethics surrounding any advanced emerging technology.

All we have seen is people responding to the immediate effects of these technologies. People are now of course complaining about censorship, they are complaining about companies and the government spying on them. These are issues that should have been discussed before they emerged. There should have been panels convened at the dawn of the internet to discuss the ethics of censorship and spying, and laws should have been passed.

Some kind of deep fake crisis is coming. We may have already witnessed deep fakes that we don’t know were deep fakes. The issue is already here. A recent Tom Cruise deep fake went viral, and proved that this technology is now at the point where the human eye cannot distinguish the real from the faked.

Understand this: it is not only the human eye that cannot recognize the difference – no computer technology can be sufficient to detect fakes. Authorities have claimed they are working on this, and have given various examples of it supposedly working, but the technology is advancing quickly and any technology capable of detecting a fake is going to lag behind the cutting edge fakes.

The other thing is that the detection technology they claim to have has only ever worked on super-high-definition video – for obvious reasons.

Anyone who wanted to spread fake video could just tone down the resolution a little bit and make it totally impossible to identify a fake.

With the recent Tom Cruise videos that went viral, I’ve not seen anyone attempt to run computer analysis on them – presumably because it doesn’t work.

Those were not made by a government. They were made by some Dutch guy who said he was trying to spread awareness about the technology. Good on him.

Some people have suggested that videos shown on TV over the past few years could have been fake. It was suggested all the way back in 2016 that a video featuring Julian Assange was fake. More recently, people have speculated that videos of Joe Biden are fake. Given the shoddy state of Joe Biden’s health, it would be shock to find that the Administration did not have a program set up to produce deep fakes of the deeply fake president if such a thing were needed. Presidents have typically had body doubles for various security purposes, and it is a nigh certainty that deep fake technology has been integrated into White House security protocol. (This is to say, if Joe Biden needs to appear on TV, but is incapable of appearing on TV due to his mental condition, I am sure they are prepared to put out a fake version of him.)

There are self-explanatory inevitable legal issues involved here. On Monday, I posted a series of grainy Twitter videos featuring black men attacking Asians, as part of the ongoing white supremacist anti-Asian mania that the blacks are involved in. What is keeping any of these blacks, right now, from claiming in court that the video is faked? In those particular cases, I’m sure there are witnesses that can testify (not least the victims), but we can picture a scenario where there is no witness, and someone claims the video is fake. Furthermore, we can picture scenarios where the government or some other entity fakes a video in order to accuse someone of committing a fake crime.

In the 2013 Channel 4 drama series “Utopia,” which is about a government plot to fake a virus pandemic so they can inject people with a gene-altering vaccine that sterilizes them, a boy who finds out about the plot is victimized by a deep fake. A man from a secret government organization goes into a school and shoots everyone, and the news airs footage of the boy committing the shooting. This type of thing seems likely to occur, given the current state of our government.

Maybe in the case of a courtroom, where video evidence is already not definitive proof of a crime, they would be able to get around this. There are advancements in DNA and other forensic techniques that are coming along with the deep fake technology. However, outside of a courtroom, people could be crucified in the town square for fake videos. What if, for instance, video was posted on the internet anonymously of a politician receiving a bribe from the Chinese. You can picture a situation where a politician would be forced to resign – or at the very least, voted out of office – based on fake video.

Ultimately, we must recognize that there are two types of technologies emerging: ones that can be banned, and ones that cannot be banned. Deep fakes cannot be banned, because they are too easy for anyone to make. What banning them would do is make it so that only the government is capable of making them, which would allow the government to use them against people by saying the technology doesn’t exist. Right now, people know the technology does exist, so if for instance the public believes that Joe Biden is dead and the videos they are showing of him are deep fakes, the public can demand that Joe Biden prove he is alive.

The basic fact is that the core of deep fake ethics should be making it clear to the public that this technology exists, and that right now – March, 2021 – you do not have any proof that any video you see of anyone saying anything is actually real. The only things that you can know are real are things that you see with your own two eyes.

This has huge implications, given that we have become accustomed to believing that video is real. The US government could not only present you with fake interviews – they could also send in teams of special forces to overthrow governments, and produce fake footage claiming that it was a revolution by the country’s population. They could also spread fake video of foreign politicians, and incite those populations to do actual revolutions. We’ve seen indicators of the latter already – the CIA stooge Alexi Navalny falsely claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a secret palace, and this false claim was used by the intelligence agencies on Twitter to help fuel an uprising in Russia.

The ongoing lack of awareness about this technology among Western people has to be purposeful. Governments should be running Public Service Announcements explaining that anything the public sees could potentially be faked using computer generated imagery. The fact that they’re not doing that indicates that the government is using this technology against the people already or is planning on doing that.

It is, right now, technically possible that Joe Biden has been dead for months. The last time a group of random people saw him was at the inauguration. For months, he refused to do any kind of press conference, and when he finally did agree to do a press conference earlier this month, entry was limited to a very small number of journalists, all of who are establishment hacks who would almost certainly agree to be in on the scheme.

I’m not saying that I believe Joe Biden is dead, or that any of the footage released of him has been fake. I’m simply saying that we do not have any proof that he is not dead, and it would be very easy for the government to fake it, using publicly available technology, if he was dead.

It’s not a “conspiracy theory” to say that this is indeed possible. It would probably be classified as a “conspiracy theory” to even talk about the fact that it is possible, but it is objectively possible. There is no denying that, and calling someone who says this a “conspiracy theorist” is simply name-calling.

The new reality of this technology is a major change in social dynamics, and yet, very few people are even bothering to discuss it.

The other looming issue is human genetic engineering and various cyborg technology. Those are a little bit further down the road, probably, but they are the kinds of issues we should be discussing now.

If someone starts breeding people with 350 IQs, what is that going to mean for society at large? We have no idea what a person with a 350 IQ would be thinking, or what he would be capable of doing. The cyborg brain implants that Elon Musk is making have similar implications – there could be a situation where all of a sudden, some group of people is unfathomably more intelligent than the rest of the population.

Intelligence is typically associated with morality, which is why our present evil government is facing such serious human resources problems: intelligent people don’t want to work for evil purposes. But what if they put a 350 IQ on a woman? Women have no morality, regardless of their intelligence.

Again: we should have talked about the internet before mass censorship and spying. We’ve now walked right into this deep fake thing without talking about it. Next comes much worse things.

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