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Old 05-29-2020, 16:51   #1
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Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc

I think most of us are aware the CGI and AI have been used to create some fantastic movies. Avatar and the Matrix, and a bunch of others. I have been told by a discreet but reliable source that the porn industry has a lot of money being sunk into CGI.

BUT, Did you ever think of CGI and AI being used as a weapon?

It's not too late to start..


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FORBES, May 25, 2020,11:54pm EDT
Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared.
Rob Toews, Contributor

Last month during ESPN’s hit documentary series The Last Dance, State Farm debuted a TV commercial that has become one of the most widely discussed ads in recent memory. It appeared to show footage from 1998 of an ESPN analyst making shockingly accurate predictions about the year 2020.

As it turned out, the clip was not genuine: it was generated using cutting-edge AI. The commercial surprised, amused and delighted viewers.

What viewers should have felt, though, was deep concern.

The State Farm ad was a benign example of an important and dangerous new phenomenon in AI: deepfakes. Deepfake technology enables anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to create realistic-looking photos and videos of people saying and doing things that they did not actually say or do.

A combination of the phrases “deep learning” and “fake”, deepfakes first emerged on the Internet in late 2017, powered by an innovative new deep learning method known as generative adversarial networks (GANs).

Several deepfake videos have gone viral recently, giving millions around the world their first taste of this new technology: President Obama using an expletive to describe President Trump, Mark Zuckerberg admitting that Facebook's true goal is to manipulate and exploit its users, Bill Hader morphing into Al Pacino on a late-night talk show.

The amount of deepfake content online is growing at a rapid rate. At the beginning of 2019 there were 7,964 deepfake videos online, according to a report from startup Deeptrace; just nine months later, that figure had jumped to 14,678. It has no doubt continued to balloon since then.

While impressive, today's deepfake technology is still not quite to parity with authentic video footage—by looking closely, it is typically possible to tell that a video is a deepfake. But the technology is improving at a breathtaking pace. Experts predict that deepfakes will be indistinguishable from real images before long.

“In January 2019, deep fakes were buggy and flickery,” said Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor and deepfake expert. “Nine months later, I’ve never seen anything like how fast they’re going. This is the tip of the iceberg.”

Today we stand at an inflection point. In the months and years ahead, deepfakes threaten to grow from an Internet oddity to a widely destructive political and social force. Society needs to act now to prepare itself.

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Old 05-29-2020, 17:59   #2
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You have to wonder about everything you see in media these days, you know fake news.
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Old 06-02-2020, 07:57   #3
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the week ahead will look like this: https://m4bl.org/week-of-action/
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Old 06-02-2020, 09:48   #4
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There was a very chilling – very prophetic documentary produced back in 1987 directed by Paul Michael Glaser (yes – the guy that played Starsky) and produced by George Linder and Time Zinnemann. The documentary was narrated by the Governor of California as well as Corporal Peter Newkirk (a radio operator that served in the British Army during WW2).

It focused on current social and economic trends that impacted 1980’s America and how these trends would eventually cause a string of global strife in the years immediately following the 2016 election. Threats of worldwide economic collapse, disease, food shortages, and wide spread civil disobedience would all lead to totalitarian police states ran by partisan democrats attempting to control and censor nearly all cultural and personal activity.

The research that produced this documentary suggested that the U.S. populace would be increasingly pacified through the glorification of reality TV and the popularity of games shows that showcased gladiator-style competition.
As a result, society would slowly but sure become inverted to a point where violent criminals and drug abusers would assume roles as folk heroes while hard working decent Americans would be treated as “the bad guy”

The documentary suggested that by 2019 if current cultural trends continued on their trajectory we would be facing food riots and civil unrest. Law enforcement personnel in this documentary were frequently pushed by their leaders to infringe on civil rights as a matter of practice but when these same officers were caught on video or attempted to act as “whistle blowers” they were metaphorically fed to the lions.

It was also explained how easy it was for the government to produce computer generated footage edited to deliver a scripted narrative. The digital quality of this “fake news” rivaled reality. The general populace could watch entire news reports – completely unaware that the entire video clip was a digital rendering.

In one vignette, Officer Ben Richards, a police helicopter pilot from Bakersfield California, was framed for causing civilian casualties during a food riot. In a shocking admission – (of course under the agreement of anonymity) - a government worker demonstrated how Officer Richards was framed using synthetic media (AKA- Deep-Fakes) as video evidence that he committed the crime. More chilling than the use of DeepFake technology to control government agendas and messaging, the government used violent mercenaries to pursue (and in some cases kill) those who had been accused of crime through the use of DeepFakes and other synthetic media. The classic government scheme was to simply “cut feed” anytime questionable content was leaked to the public through outside sources. Most common was the excuse that storms and cloud cover was interfering with the signal.



Scary shit…..
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Old 06-02-2020, 12:25   #5
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The CIVIL WAR II:

It is not the North vs The South but The Grass Roots Right vs The Radical Liberal Democrat Party. The DNC are the same socialists, communists as the CCP in China. Their goal is complete domination of the USA. The sides are clear about their intentions to RULE and CONTROL the citizens of their respective countries. There can not be a peaceful separation and solution to this "Problem", because the Leftist Radical Democrat's do not listen and do not learn. The protesters are now playing the victim role being promoted by MSM, the propaganda arm of the The New Radical Left Democrat Party. The defacto leader of the Radical Left is a pathetic, old man who has been in politics his entire adult life it is sad to see this construct person who is in obvious mental decline being portrayed as as the next POTUS.
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Old 07-15-2020, 11:14   #6
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The marriage of deepfakes and disinformation could prove to be a real problem with social media hysteria.

Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
TECHNOLOGY NEWSJULY 15, 2020 / 6:07 AM
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Online profiles describe him as a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewish home. His half dozen freelance editorials and blog posts reveal an active interest in anti-Semitism and Jewish affairs, with bylines in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.

The catch? Oliver Taylor seems to be an elaborate fiction.

His university says it has no record of him. He has no obvious online footprint beyond an account on the question-and-answer site Quora, where he was active for two days in March. Two newspapers that published his work say they have tried and failed to confirm his identity. And experts in deceptive imagery used state-of-the-art forensic analysis programs to determine that Taylor’s profile photo is a hyper-realistic forgery - a “deepfake.”

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There was a very chilling – very prophetic documentary produced back in 1987 directed by Paul Michael Glaser (yes – the guy that played Starsky) and produced by George Linder and Time Zinnemann. The documentary was narrated by the Governor of California as well as Corporal Peter Newkirk (a radio operator that served in the British Army during WW2).



Scary shit…..
Box, do you remember the name of this documentary?
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Box, do you remember the name of this documentary?

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Food Riots in Bakersfield: The Ben Richards Story
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Old 07-15-2020, 21:39   #9
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Food Riots in Bakersfield: The Ben Richards Story
Lmfao!
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Food Riots in Bakersfield: The Ben Richards Story
Wow! I forgot that that was set in 2019. You're Data, aren't you?
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Food Riots in Bakersfield: The Ben Richards Story
On a cursory look, it looks like they also collaborated on Running Man?

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The Running Man is a 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser ... The film's story, set in a dystopian United States between 2017 and 2019, is about a television show called The ... In 2019, Ben Richards, a police helicopter pilot framed for a massacre during a food riot in Bakersfield, California, ...


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On a cursory look, it looks like they also collaborated on Running Man?
Coincidence maybe ??
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Food Riots in Bakersfield: The Ben Richards Story
Thanks, so I found Running Man...
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Thanks, so I found Running Man...
The Running Man was a fictionalized version of the documentary...

Seriously though - save this post - it is one of the very few times that I will even get close to that dangerous line that some people refer to as "being serious"

The concept of 'deep fakes' is nothing new. Since the first dancing baby Gif back in the 80's people have been playing around with digital manipulation.
Imagine if someone with a pirated copy off photoshop got their hands on a few nude photos from a Hustler Magazine and coupled them with Jennifer Anniston's head.....
...poor Rachel Green; imagine how embarrassed she would feel when those sex photos get circulated around the internet.
...and just how angry Ross would be when he saw those pictures of his girlfriend having sex with two midgets in full-body Yoda make-up
...dirty dirty Rachel; who knew she was into that sort of thing

We all know it could never happen, but "if"
Just "if"

We don't even really need "deepfake" technology in this country anymore. Even worse than deep fake technology is the widely available and FAR more dangerous threat:
"The Weaponized Dumb-Ass".
Deepfae technology is only going to get better and cheaper and easier to produce but weaponized dumbasses simply will not evolve. Deepfake technology certainly can contribute to a wildly dystopian future - but only at the hands of a society that welcomes and embraces the hype and fearmongering - for example...

Imagine a virus - a virus SO DANGEROUS AND DEADLY that you have to be tested and then told ten days later that you have that virus in order to know even know you are "sick".
Them imagine a news media that will run video footage of a small hospital in Italy and tell people it is actually a giant hospital in New York that is collapsing in on itself from the overcrowded rush of people with that very same deadly virus.
Then imagine a political party that will praise them for doing it.
Then tell me again why I need to fear a 'deepfake' of some contrived scandal to destroy my life when politicians are doing more damage by just standing at a podium and lying to me about......
EVERYTHING

How many deepfake videos did it take to convince hundreds of millions of Americans that they needed to hide in their homes for six months - and that they would die if they didn't wear a surgical mask when they went to Walmart to buy another 3-liter jug of Carlo Rossi.

Let's revisit the photos of Rachel Green having a threesome with the Porno-Yoda twins; we all know some weapons-grade dumb ass that will swear those photos are real. Some of the more persistent strains of weaponized dumbass will even refuse to believe the truth when someone tells them - "it's just photoshop"

Someone remind me again how many times that bug-eyed nitwit from kalifornia told us he had proof that President Trump had conspired with Putin to steal the election from the clint0n syndicate?
...didnt that idiot even fall prey to something as simple as a prank fucking phone call?

Imagine if a Ren and Stimpy quality video edit surfaced that showed what appeared to be grainy images of President Trump giving a handful of cash to Putin. The shitbird Adman Shift and the other two stooges (chuck and nancy) would have made sure that the video had 24/7 coverage on every major news outlet while bigger idiots like Milt Robknee preaches about the evils of corruption. Talk about weaponized idiocy - Romney is the mother fucking yellowcake uranium of dumbasses.
Let's not forget those self-righteous republicans either - there was plenty of outrage at the Jordan Peele fake of Obama calling President Trump a dip shit.

No siree - the real threat isn't the fake Obama video - the real threat isn't even the disgraceful way they framed Ben Richardson for the massacre at the Bakersfield Food Riots. The real threat is the legion of weaponized dumbasses roaming free from sea to shining sea that believe every single solitary thing they see on Fakebook and Twister. The real threat comes from the simple-minded folks that will watch an entire speech - but then wait for George Snuffalupagus to spin what they just heard with their own ears because they arent really sure of what they just heard.

Deepfakes aren't going to wreak havoc on our dystopian social experiment - we wreak enough havoc upon ourselves every day by letting real people show us real footage and tell us real lies...
...I'd like to drag this rant out a little longer but the news is about to come on and I despreately need someone to tell me how to live my life tomorrow.
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Old 07-17-2020, 04:41   #15
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^^^ that will be the excuse if Maxwell’s “insurance policies” are released and the elites are seen with underage folks.

That’s not my Swedish-made penis pump: the receipt made out to me and the book I wrote about it are Deep Fakes.
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