Once they start trying to regulate this stuff, they’ll keep pushing for more restrictions, especially if you can generate images/video of celebrities/our political elite saying ‘nigger.’
Okay to be fair, that is a real problem. I, and I imagine most people, are very uncomfortable with indistinguishable-from-reality deepfakes. The implications for spread of misinformation is only a small part of the problem.
There’s nothing you can do about it though without banning it/making it so that only people with special licenses for academic/business use can generate that stuff. If someone makes their software to where it embeds a watermark/some kind of metadata that helps you verify that what you’re watching is fake, someone else will just release their own software/model that doesn’t do that.
Yeah, I don’t have a good solution. You could just make it illegal to make deepfakes of real people, but that is pretty restrictive (not to mention impossible to enforce).
Okay to be fair, that is a real problem. I, and I imagine most people, are very uncomfortable with indistinguishable-from-reality deepfakes. The implications for spread of misinformation is only a small part of the problem.
There’s nothing you can do about it though without banning it/making it so that only people with special licenses for academic/business use can generate that stuff. If someone makes their software to where it embeds a watermark/some kind of metadata that helps you verify that what you’re watching is fake, someone else will just release their own software/model that doesn’t do that.
This is either an all or nothing kind of deal.
Yeah, I don’t have a good solution. You could just make it illegal to make deepfakes of real people, but that is pretty restrictive (not to mention impossible to enforce).
Malicious deepfakes would probably fall under defamation.
Remember the days when it was considered common sense to never share your real life information online?
Those days are going to come back because of this.