Good news! We don’t have to wonder what’s going to happen! It’s totally going to happen in the next few months!
Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast.
Submitted 8 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/war-game-deepfakes-disrupt-2024-election-rcna143038
Comments
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Nudding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They should do one where they let a guy who led an insurrection against the government run for president a few years later.
QuantumBamboo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I don’t care how polished a deepfake it might end up being… nobody would believe something that batshit.
Nudding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not even original, a similar thing happened in the 1930s in Germany.
Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
There are no experts on this. We’re in uncharted water.
lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
No we’re not. The US right now, is WW2 era Germany. It will play out the same way, and as an American, I’m so frustrated that not many other people recognize this.
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
If you think that the US is like WW2 era Germany in terms of facism, I doubt you know enough about WW2 era Germany…
Infinite@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
It’s not the big, loud disinformation that’s the most worrying; at least that can be addressed head-on. It’s the subtle, divisive manipulation that’s been going on for years that has us disowning family and flirting with civil war.
CaptainProton@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You know where this is going, can’t trust the vote of a misinformed voter, so… No vote until the government figures out what information you need for deciding on further changes to government.
SteefLem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hope they do a Ceaușescu on that fatshitsmellingorangemushroombaby, but faster.
valen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Spreading election lies (and that’s what these deepfakes are), needs to be a felony, not protected by the 1st amendment.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Republicans have weaponized misinformation and protected their operators from scrutiny. It will never be punished the way it should.
thenexusofprivacy@piefed.social 8 months ago
Spreading false voting information -- like the example in the article about fake phone calls saying polling places are closed -- is a crime in the US, whether or not it's online, it's just hot particularly well enforced.