Re Deepfakes are coming. Is Big Tech ready?

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Paul Wilson" <pwilson () apnic net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Deepfakes are coming. Is Big Tech ready?
> Date: August 10, 2018 at 9:01:15 AM GMT+9
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
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> “Deepfakes”! What a wonderful bit of newspeak, but truly misleading jargon in this case at least.
>
> No matter how “good” they are, there’s nothing “deep” about fake videos - no meta-level, no recursion, no new 
> dimension of fakeness.
>
> I’m probably too late, but please let’s not use this jargon until we have something truly “deep” to attach it to.
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> Paul.
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> On 9 Aug 2018, at 15:06, Dave Farber wrote:
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> > https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/08/technology/deepfakes-countermeasures-facebook-twitter-youtube/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-08-08T15:31:31
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> ________________________________________________________________________
> Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC                        dg () apnic net
> http://www.apnic.net                                            @apnicdg



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