Thread by @MikaelThalen

I've gone down a black hole of the latest DeepFakes and this mashup of Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Lawrence is a sight to behold

Speaking of DeepFakes, lawmakers are currently sounding the alarm over concerns that such techniques will be used during the 2020 election cnn.com/2019/01/28/tec…

Many feel the issue is more hype than substance though. People already believe in outlandish conspiracies based on far, far less. This take feels pretty spot on:

https://twitter.com/RidT/status/1086090842509582341

As some have pointed out, the potential for this to be used against everyday people as a form of blackmail is probably, at least in some ways, much more worrisome than a video involving a well-known politician. news.com.au/technology/onl…

For those interested, the above Lawrence-Buscemi video was made by an individual who used a I5-8500K processor, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card and free DeepFakes tool available online. I believe they made this video just weeks after watching a tutorial on YouTube.

If you want to know the history of how this technology became accessible to more or less everyday people, @samleecole over at @motherboard I believe was the first to cover its emergence on Reddit back in late 2017 motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…

Researchers have developed different ways to detect DeepFakes. One way is to analyze how often the individual in the video blinks using AI. While it is accurate now, researchers say they will need new methods as DeepFakes become more advanced fastcompany.com/90230076/the-b…

If you want to learn more, I wrote a piece for the @dailydot about this video and the implications of deepfakes. Check it out dailydot.com/debug/jennifer…

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