Thread by @balajis

Synthetic identities are coming.

Software now allows you to generate realistic photos and videos of a person who does not exist.

And if identity politics is the currency of the realm, synthetic identities provide the ability to counterfeit that currency.

Here are some sites to play around with:

1) generated.photos
2) thispersondoesnotexist.com
3) generative.photos

See also the stories on virtual influencers: nytimes.com/2019/06/17/bus…

Faker is a library for populating test databases that could be extended to create a synthetic identity generator.

Output a digital avatar with

- name
- biographical info
- and a function that generates infinite photos, videos, audio, and text
faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/