The truth is out there.
When I was a kid, my brother and I made a UFO out of paper plates, tin foil and marbles. Then we got on the roof with our spaceship dangling from a fishing line and, using our mom’s plastic 110 camera, captured incontrovertible proof that we are not alone in the universe.
Fakery has always existed. But when everything went digital, creation and distribution both got easier, faster and more broadly distributed. And artificial intelligence (AI) will take it to a whole new level, enabling anyone to create perfect fakes of difficult-to-fake media, like video and audio.
How will we function with a world full of fakery?
Fake news (or, news about fakes)
Media reports obsess over the fear that deepfake videos will be used in politics. And just this week, it’s happened. Bharatiya Janata Party President Manoj Tiwari used deepfake videos to speak to supporters in different languages. It was not used to falsify the comments of an opponent. Still, it’s a milestone that deepfakes are now officially being used in politics.
Another demonstration of authorized AI fakery is a new song written for, and in the style of, rapper and songwriter Travis Scott. The song, called Jack Park Canny Dope Man, has AI-generated music and lyrics and was performed by Scott himself in a music video. The project was headed by Los Angeles-based agency, space150.
An unrelated website lets you create your own AI-generated song lyrics.
OpenAI GPT-2 is a language creation AI that can write English in just about any style. It
The truth is out there.
When I was a kid, my brother and I made a UFO out of paper plates, tin foil and marbles. Then we got on the roof with our spaceship dangling from a fishing line and, using our mom’s plastic 110 camera, captured incontrovertible proof that we are not alone in the universe.
Fakery has always existed. But when everything went digital, creation and distribution both got easier, faster and more broadly distributed. And artificial intelligence (AI) will take it to a whole new level, enabling anyone to create perfect fakes of difficult-to-fake media, like video and audio.
How will we function with a world full of fakery?
Fake news (or, news about fakes)
Media reports obsess over the fear that deepfake videos will be used in politics. And just this week, it’s happened. Bharatiya Janata Party President Manoj Tiwari used deepfake videos to speak to supporters in different languages. It was not used to falsify…
