In this excerpt of a conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, AI developer (and Deepfake Tom Cruise co-creator) Tom Graham explores how photoreal AI-generated content — media that looks and sounds exactly like the real world — will come to permeate our lives over the next decade. He offers a proof of concept directly from the stage as they discuss the creative and educational potential of this technology along with its risk for exploitation.
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Marco
April 19, 2023 at 5:20 am
Is this a Ted short? Or… He said something you actually can do😈
Beau Brenner
April 19, 2023 at 5:23 am
The benefits coming from deepfakes is a stronger strategy of manipulation from the media and politics
Be My Art
April 19, 2023 at 5:24 am
Creative things doesn’t matter if scammers and manipulators gonna get this. Internet will stop being a source of information again because it will be 70%-80% lies. It’ll become only entertaining area and source for hysteria, of course. On TV you at least know who made it and what % of truth to expect.
Marcus Eli Ravage
April 19, 2023 at 5:35 am
Feels like these disruptive technologies exist for the purpose of instituting dystopian “reactions” that restrict you to an even deeper grid. Manufacturing consent for mandatory digital identification.
the awesomest
April 19, 2023 at 6:06 am
I really don’t see the point in deep fake technology. Yeah I guess I’ll be good for films but I don’t think that’s worth the harm it’s gonna cause. When did we stop making technology to make life easier?
David Barker
April 19, 2023 at 6:08 am
We certainly should be worried.
bergstrom oliver
April 19, 2023 at 6:30 am
Trust The Ordinary Media.
Šime
April 19, 2023 at 6:37 am
> a new set of institutions to verify what is authentic media
… we’re f*cked.
DBA
April 19, 2023 at 7:02 am
Maybe people will finally start questioning all the things they see on internet?
Claus
April 19, 2023 at 7:41 am
Probably, Mike Wallace (God bless him!) & John McEnroe (odd couple, right?) would’ve shouted out loud: “Come on, Wizard of Oz, you can’t be serious!”
KJ
April 19, 2023 at 8:26 am
Yes we should be worried, we already have completely differing interpretations of reality fuelled by social media echo chambers and deepening divisions in society as a result which could be just the start.
PhilipRikoZen
April 19, 2023 at 8:37 am
People talking like Photoshop never existed, we already been living in a world where we can’t trust our eyes, female models on magazines with legs longer then 1,50meters have been around forever, social media beauty filters, no one bothers. The problems are not the tools, it is that people don’t care to know and they follow the leader
Fraser
April 19, 2023 at 9:02 am
Well its time to change the old saying and make it current: “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see unless its online, then believe none of what you see”
bravojr
April 19, 2023 at 9:04 am
No.
Because we should easily be able to be authentic to ourselves.
Ede Mehta Wardhana
April 19, 2023 at 9:24 am
Well Yes, But Actually No
As a matter of fact,… Yes.
ronkirk50
April 19, 2023 at 9:30 am
Before long you won’t be able to believe ANYTHING you see or hear unless it comes from a trusted source and even they may be fooled and pass on mis-information unawares.
nobodys baby
April 19, 2023 at 9:28 pm
We’re already there.
K
April 19, 2023 at 9:33 am
He looks deep fake irl
The6thElement
April 19, 2023 at 10:05 am
Yes, we should be worried. Luckily, I am a skeptic.
NeonVisual
April 19, 2023 at 10:33 am
AI can also tell if something is real or a deepfake, so there’s that.
Julia Henriques
April 19, 2023 at 10:38 am
Yes.
themandolinmaniac
April 19, 2023 at 11:40 am
Anything on a screen will/should be heavily discounted, but will that extend to phone calls? Is the world going to increasingly be divided between those who fall for the fakes and skeptics who trust almost nothing?
Markus Müller
April 19, 2023 at 11:55 am
Who do you trust? Who do you support?
Mountprospect1
April 19, 2023 at 3:50 pm
You have done nothing of any positive use …. And your justification of the deep fake situation as being out of your hands, inevitable & unstoppable only go to prove how far gone you are as a person. Literally how can you even sleep at night?
M.@Rebel-Lion
April 19, 2023 at 4:28 pm
internet will be broken
Carthage
April 20, 2023 at 2:49 am
So it needs to be dealt with at an industry level, with a set of laws and regulations that ensure the people producing media are making it really clear when something is AI-generated. And that the people who consume media have recourse when something fake gets through the cracks.
Daito Yoshiaki
April 20, 2023 at 3:53 am
mmm actually I do not freak out. I’m old enough to have read the same comments back in the 90ies when Internet went viral. And same story when social networks were launched a decade after. That said, AI needs to be integrated in our societies, respecting laws and a certain level of morality.
Claus
April 20, 2023 at 7:59 am
Ain’t AI kind of old hat? Obviously, Daniel F. Galouye (Simulacron-3 / Cinematisation: World on a Wire, The 13th Floor, Matrix Trilogy) and Cyril M. Kornbluth (The Marching Morons) were way ahead of their time! How about Huxley and Orwell? We should’ve known much better, right?!
Michael Woods Mccausland
April 20, 2023 at 9:05 am
This only virtual media
Ayten Şahin
April 20, 2023 at 9:50 am
Well these guys look quite legit to me, Tiktok, AGT and now Ted. Yeah, cool people/
Nados Demirkol
April 20, 2023 at 9:50 am
I don’t see any prob with this tech is the content is appropriately labeled. If there is a problem with this tool, then what about Photoshop?
kylian mbappe
April 20, 2023 at 9:50 am
Lips were bit weird when he talked and the voice sounds quite robotic. That said, I love what those guys do. Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton nad America’s Got Talent.
taner özdemir
April 20, 2023 at 9:51 am
“What is now proved was once only imagined.” –William Blake
XxDaRkLoRdxX
April 20, 2023 at 9:51 am
Hyper reality he said? It means more real than the real? How come?
Murat Kaymaz
April 20, 2023 at 9:52 am
This new tech is both a gigantic prob and a super opportunity. New jobs will be created while old ones will disappear. People will have to adapt.
Blue world
April 20, 2023 at 11:50 am
Wow ffs! This is amazing! Where can I try?
sky flower
April 20, 2023 at 11:50 am
You fear the unknown. Once you’ll understand this tech, you’ll feel much better.
Matthew Boles
April 20, 2023 at 12:40 pm
the people that develop this tech are fearful.
alixxxxxx66
April 20, 2023 at 11:51 am
Wait, this is the guy behind Deep Tom Cruise?