<div dir="ltr">Hopefully it will be easily understood, that the financing and agendas of corporate power structures (and lobbyists and politicians etc) will obviously use deepfakes for their own profit, as all new inventions are, to the detriment of society. If russians buying ads, and internal communist party propaganda (like with taiwan avoiding tencent and others) is any indication of what malicious actors and policies are currently implementing and capable of, then it should be an easy feat to assume what will be done with deepfake ability and machine learning. <div><br></div><div>If you'd like to counter regaining that trust, then it should be made a point to create and provide society with tools that automatically detect computationally fabricated imagery vs actual persons and media feeds - however, with computing power growing exponentially, and quantum (infinite) computing creeping onto the mainstream market, this will no longer be possible to protect against for the benefit of society. </div><div><br></div><div>An example would be a background application capable of displaying what consumed media has been created with analog (direct video in reality) and what has not (manufactured video using GAN) like a browser extension. Obviously, since existing technology and firmwares, versions, etc make this impossible to offer a universal application for the benefit of humanity, we are doomed.</div><div><br></div><div>To truly prevent humanity's downfall, we must push for corporate reality to explain to society what their goals are in real terms and how they are going to go about those goals - which would eliminate trade secrets in a way, or any competitive advantage, which will never, ever, ever happen. If corporations said their goal was x, society would either support or fight against such things. But given how popular the kardashians still are, i'd rather know that information from corporations so i know which side of the alliance to be on when world war 3 breaks out because we are fucked.</div><div><br></div><div>A single senator or representative, is supposed to voice his vote on behalf of millions of individuals? Maybe someone should explain how that's still logically possible...There are more people in a representative district than there are opinions. </div><div><br></div><div>Another major problem will be, that if we don't have tools, or even government agencies, having these tools, to be able to tell deepfakes apart - it will shift from innocent until proven guilty to guilty until proven innocent. So having said that, perhaps a way to level the playing field is to give everyone the same tools and equipment that anyone else will have - making the instructions in laymans terms, allowing anyone to use the same type of tools that elites can use. Remove the skill barrier in order to level the playing field down to intent, and maybe we'll see the resurrection of Anon. </div><div><br></div><div>If we can dilute the severity and importance of malicious actors with idiots, and allow novices to scar the playing field that purposefully executed plans will, maybe we can lessen the impact of when it happens.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 5:39 PM Yosem Companys <<a href="mailto:ycompanys@gmail.com">ycompanys@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Michelle Lee</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mishlee@stanford.edu" target="_blank">mishlee@stanford.edu</a>></span><br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">We're very excited to have our first AI Salon this quarter <span style="font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline">Friday April 12 at 4pm</span> at Gates 219 (our usual time and place), on the topic of "Societal Impact of Deepfakes" with Professor Maneesh Agrawala and Professor Jeff Hancock. More specifically, we want to discuss how the increasing ease of creating fake media with AI might be eroding trust in our society and our democratic institutions, how do we regain that trust, and whether the harms of Deepfake might be overhyped. </font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">About the Speakers</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="text-align:justify"><b>Maneesh Agrawala </b>is the </span><a href="https://professorships.stanford.edu/content/School%20of%20Engineering" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:justify" target="_blank">Forest Baskett Professor</a><span style="text-align:justify"> of </span><a href="http://cs.stanford.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:justify" target="_blank">Computer Science</a><span style="text-align:justify"> and Director of the </span><a href="http://brown.stanford.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:justify" target="_blank">Brown Institute for Media Innovation</a><span style="text-align:justify"> at Stanford University. He works on </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify">computer graphics</span><span style="text-align:justify">, </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify">human computer interaction</span><span style="text-align:justify"> and </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify">visualization</span><span style="text-align:justify">. His focus is on investigating how cognitive design principles can be used to improve the effectiveness of audio/visual media. The goals of this work are to discover the design principles and then instantiate them in both interactive and automated design tools. </span><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Jeff Hancock</b> is founding director of the <a href="https://sml.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford Social Media Lab</a> and is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Professor Hancock and his group work on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. He is well-known for his research on how people use deception with technology, from sending texts and emails to detecting fake online reviews. His <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hancock_3_types_of_digital_lies?language=en" target="_blank">TED Talk </a>on deception has been seen over 1 million times. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">About the Event:</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">For those of you new to <span class="gmail-m_-181115700074319666m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">AI</span> <span class="gmail-m_-181115700074319666m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">Salon</span>: this is a roughly bi-weekly event on Fridays where we discuss high-level topics in <span class="gmail-m_-181115700074319666m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">AI</span> and machine learning, with the goal of getting us to think beyond our individual day-to-day research and better see how what we do fits into the bigger picture of society. We hold these <span style="font-weight:700">in the spirit of Enlightenment-era <span class="gmail-m_-181115700074319666m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">salons</span>, with no electronics</span> or whiteboard allowed: only free-ranging discussion open to all <span class="gmail-m_-181115700074319666m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">AI</span> lab members, with a 10-minute opening statement at the beginning by the two hosts.</font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The week's <span class="gmail-m_-181115700074319666m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">AI</span> <span class="gmail-m_-181115700074319666m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">Salon</span> is held <span style="font-weight:700">Friday </span>from <span style="font-weight:700">4pm to 5pm</span> in Gates 219 (2nd floor open area), with wine & cheese served starting at 3:45 - please come at by 3:55 pm to get wine & cheese and a seat. We start at 4pm sharp! <br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Best,</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">AI Salon Team </font></p></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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