More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction
Here’s an example of how it looks:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTI-o9Pkjfa/
It does look pretty real. In a couple of years it will be impossible to tell the difference between computer generated video and real life. It pretty much already is with some videos.
Governments need to get ahead of this shit and start requiring that all AI generated videos and images have some kind of watermark on them, with hefty penalties for AI companies who fail to comply.
Even a small watermark in the corner of the video or whatever would suffice. Doesn’t have to be anything crazy.
Watermarks are not a solution, there will 100% be tech to remove them. Likewise it will mean foreign state actors will make them with zero watermarks in the first place and people will assume it’s real because ‘no watermark’.
I guess watermark with metadata embedded so that governments and platforms can track the source?
I’m sure more tech literate people can come up with something rather than just doing absolutely nothing.
The only mathematically correct way to do that is to have cryptographic metadata signing a photo from a hardware device like a camera declaring that it’s real, not metadata declaring content to be generated.
In practice though, I don’t think it’s feasible.
And more tech literate people can defeat it or simply never implement it in the first place.
The solution isn’t technology, it’s learning to not believe everything you see online, on tv, or printed in a paper.
Am I doing it right?
I remember once I heard what I thought was an AI voice trying to mimic a celebrity. Nope, credits listed real voice actors.
30 minutes later I see a pic that I thought ‘oh. That’s cool’ for it to come from an AI community.
That was on the same day, I guess 2 years ago at least. I knew we (or at least I) was fucked then
People are fucking morons. Guess we are doomed.
How to tell this is fake:
Cultural tells - “mate” used more than once in a sentence with wrong tone. The lack of the word “fella” used where “bloke” is used instead and out of place culturally. No flies in the eyes or mouth.
Digital tells - lip sync is shithouse. Occlusion is shithouse. Depth between objects breaks physics of the actions in the frame. Wrinkles don’t wrinkle around the eyes they squash. Bottom teeth pop in and out and tongue goes missing.
General slop tells - too much gesticulation of the hands, every word is emphasised by a hand action. Mouth shapes enunciate way too much with the same shit eating grin all AI slop has. AI still can’t do hands in motion and relies heavily on motion blur when it’s not warranted.
“I feel a bit misled by it all.”
A bit? Hahaha.
