When AI Can Fake Reality, Who Can You Trust? | Sam Gregory | TED

We're fast approaching a world where widespread, hyper-realistic deepfakes lead us to dismiss reality, says technologist and human rights advocate Sam Gregory. What happens to democracy when we can't trust what we see? Learn three key steps to protecting our ability to distinguish human from synthetic — and why fortifying our perception of truth is crucial to our AI-infused future.

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[lornenoland]

“None of this works without… responsibility”
If there’s anything that defines modern politics and media, it’s “responsibility”
🙄
We’re doomed

[ronkirk]

There will always be a segment of our society who will believe anything they see or hear without filtering out the nonsense, but even for the rest of us who are more skeptical and reasoning, it will get harder and harder to sort fact from fiction. Can more technology protect us from the technology? That remains to be seen.

[pattybonsera]

A close friend of mine recently had her voice faked in an audio on Facebook. Her FB account was hacked, and the scammer was reaching out to every single one of her friends trying to get personal banking information. I have to say, it sounded exactly like her.

[lactobacillusprime]

In a world where the difference between beliefs and facts are eroding, people disappear into their filter bubbles this is worrying.

[jhunt]

The AI detection tools need to be democratised. We can't have one agency that just says trust me bro it fake, or trust me bro it's real.

[stormthrush]

More than simply AI images is the problem with how used to so many little distortions we've gotten used to in our daily lives. Filters, editing, suspension of disbelief, lifestyle bloggers and influencers that glamorize their lives to make them look way better than they actually are; heck, our own cognitive biases that distort our memories of events. The painful truth is we often don't want to see reality, because life can be so terrible sometimes.

[cl]

The problem is some governments are the very ones who use AI or allow it to be used nefariously. We can only rely on each others' moral obligation for the betterment of the human race, sadly that is not happening and therefore there is no way to guard against total moral and ethical corruption in human propensity for deception.

[jasonpekovitch]

Any detector would greatly improve the quality of the deep fake as it would now have a realtime feedback system to train on. I appreciate that you included well just keep them out of the hands of the “bad guys”. That is never a successful strategy.

[Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]

What about an open source collection of software that can be maintained by the crowd and made available to everyone?

[Elevate]

Plot Twist, this video is Ai generated.

[divetank]

Thank you Sam. Been following 'Prepare Don't Panic' campaign for several years and show your videos to my university communications students.

[Azel]

It is dangerous to believe everything you see. It is also dangerous to believe nothing at all. The challenge is finding that balance.

[RISCGames]

Cat is already well out of the bag and it’s a little too late.

[brunoschaer]

This robot at first fooled me. It really does look like a real person and seems to speak like one too. It's amazing what technology is capable of these days!

[easkey]

OMG.... What a world we are giving our children 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[matthewdozier]

I missed the part where you told us how we achieve anything without ultimately putting all power to proclaim what is real in the hands of some group of people.

[peachmango]

This isn't helpful. It assumes "frontline people" are ethical. NO WAY.

[vctaillon]

here's a great solution. push all the power buttons to off.
Go for a walk in the woods, remember the woods?

[loner]

I got an ad for an AI program that “helps “study aquatic biology somehow. Good timing.

[erikreber]

Wait. Why shouldn't everyone be able to detect this bullcrap?