Blog Post 8

 Deep Fakes

Deep Fakes have been an issue that has not been for the better as time has gone on. Deep fakes are the act of taking an AI generation of a person and making them move in a video saying something. This can be a good thing and a bad thing. Many games and movies will use this to show an action that someone is doing or stunts to make sure that no one gets hurt. This form of AI generation is used widely for training videos to show and teach people how to handle certain situations and it really does help out how they will have to handle a situation just like that but in real life. I do believe this makes a great representation of what a deep fake is. Unfortunately, now people will take this technology and use it to hurt someone or make someone look bad. Some people will now take this and change it to a political candidate and make them say something that looks real and sounds real with the AI-generated mouth movements and sound. How this can be done to hurt someone to spread misinformation can now be a charge and sent to jail. 

I think that this could be a good way to send messages out to the public by using it to keep people safe from large crowds and make it seamless to mess up during a speech or to say something differently than what you intended. I think that the public should not be able to have access to things like this just fact that you can really change a person's life if you do something like this and make them say something there are ways to check to see if it is real or not but most of the time the average news reader isn't going to bat an eye to think its real or fake. 

Throughout this skillful AI technology, it's important to always remember that AI can alter many different things and can almost do just as good of work as a human. This can be going in the right direction if they can narrow down the users to make sure that everyone using it is using it in the right way and form. It's very easy to miss a product like this and if the government decides to use it I could see things go very badly for them because of the fact that they can manipulate many things. As far as jobs go I feel this is a very great idea to put the new hires in a tricky situation and have the generation responsible to how they react.