The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery
We&#x27;re rapidly heading into a world where every form of non-fictional media has to be mediated by a trusted third party because we have no way to distinguish what&#x27;s true from what&#x27;s fabricated with our own senses. This is a complete reversal of the verifying power that images, audio, and video once provided to everybody <i>regardless</i> of income or education. Think about some of the potent imagery that came out of wars like WWII and Vietnam, for example.<p>We&#x27;re not too far away from the manufacture of literal &quot;fake news&quot; out of whole cloth. I&#x27;m not sure this bodes well for the idea of an informed electorate.