It is odd that no one hasn’t used the ai technology to do some shady statecraft espionage type shit via the media. Like a subtle video leaked to Fox News of Biden caught on a hot mic professing his love for Xi or something.

the technology has come along since then, check out that unstable diffusion subreddit

Remember when everyone was freaking out about photographic fakery?

Me neither. The fact that this technology’s existence is widely-known just means you now can’t implicitly trust video footage. Not that you ever could. Same deal with that AI voice mimicry shit. People know it exists, they know that it’s possible to fake things and if they’re wise they’ll bear it in mind.

There was Zens’ “hacked police database” of pictures of Uyghurs supposedly being detained which was widely reported on for a minute, BBC and the intercept at a cursory Google search, and I’m sure others too.

Some of these are such obvious AI generated fakes I don’t know how they got through. At the least the numbers are padded.

Last time this came up on here there were some reasonable objections, such as “not everyone will look like Beyonce” which is true, but out of 2800 people how many will have such incredibly severe scoliosis as many of these images seem to show? And then there are a few where it even does the half glasses half no glasses thing, or a bit of hair texture detached from the person’s head entirely, or the one undeniable fake where the older guy’s head comes out of his chest and there is an impossible shadow pattern between his neck and shirt collar.

Edit: I tracked that one down.

Take a good long look at that guy’s neck and explain to me how so many mainstream news networks reported on this shit for months uncritically.

We already live in a post truth, Post™ Raisin Bran, post apocalyptic society

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