{"id":155,"date":"2018-02-03T00:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2018-02-03T00:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:57:47","slug":"disturbing-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/03\/disturbing-new-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing new technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d seen &#8220;faceswapped&#8221; photos before, and have done my own <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceforgod.blogspot.ca\/2007\/05\/getting-into-pictures-in-photoshop-5.html\">photoshopping of images to put faces of people I know into famous paintings<\/a>. But I first became aware of the technology that lets people to edit <i>video<\/i> footage, replacing heads in the video with other people&#8217;s heads, through this impressive montage of Trump and his cronies being arrested by the FBI that was circulating around social media a while back. It is truly impressive, though it&#8217;s quite obvious that it&#8217;s a fake. And because it comported with my own political leanings, I laughed at it, passed it along, and thought no further about it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump Arrest Montage\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DhD3I_AZJMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then tonight I came across this worrisome article and learn a new word (&#8220;deepfakes&#8221;) and about a new trend that could be used for nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-42912529\">Deepfakes Porn Has Serious Consequences<\/a> (BBC)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-42912529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/deepfakes-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"deepfakes\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/deepfakes-300x290.jpg 300w, http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/deepfakes.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course I had laughed off the Trump arrest video above (though his supporters may think there was a nefarious purpose underlying it). But the technology will only get better, to the point where it&#8217;s seamless and the fakeness can&#8217;t be easily detected. And things like that could be done to denigrate or even ruin the lives of people I trust. It could severely undermine our ability to detect what real and what is fake, which is already being messed with. Makes the old VHS ad campaign slogan &#8220;Is it live, or is it Memorex?&#8221; (often misremembered as &#8220;Is it real, or is it Memorex?&#8221;) sound quaint. There will soon come a time when we literally can&#8217;t believe our eyes anymore. I shudder to think of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d seen &#8220;faceswapped&#8221; photos before, and have done my own photoshopping of images to put faces of people I know into famous paintings. But I first became aware of the technology that lets people to edit video footage, replacing heads in the video with other people&#8217;s heads, through this impressive montage of Trump and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}