Hi Geoffrey, thanks for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully.
Agree with the younger people demographic comment, as someone who identifies as young, I’m super fallible, annoyingly. Interestingly, I do have the impression that much of the current ‘entertainment deepfake’ content might be more targeted toward younger people.
I hadn’t thought of the 2024 election and I think you’re very right in bringing it up (thanks again), it does seem like a ‘first’ big inflection point for this emerging tech to be used...
I’m tempted to say that the awful deepfakes of this political cycle could be that terrible pill to inoculate people from the worst-case scenarios involving x-risk… but it’s hard to imagine how bad these could be and I have this idea that the deepfakes lose quite a bit of their ‘oomph’ if they are ramped up over time or even overused (per ‘desensitization’ again).
In my mind what might separate an x-risk deepfake from the political cycle ones is that the most dangerous a deepfake might be is when it is not analyzed over time (like in a long political campaign*), but rather incorporated into or even causing an immediate decision… unsure.
*interesting to think of the new arena of (deep)fake news...
Hi Geoffrey, thanks for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully.
Agree with the younger people demographic comment, as someone who identifies as young, I’m super fallible, annoyingly. Interestingly, I do have the impression that much of the current ‘entertainment deepfake’ content might be more targeted toward younger people.
I hadn’t thought of the 2024 election and I think you’re very right in bringing it up (thanks again), it does seem like a ‘first’ big inflection point for this emerging tech to be used...
I’m tempted to say that the awful deepfakes of this political cycle could be that terrible pill to inoculate people from the worst-case scenarios involving x-risk… but it’s hard to imagine how bad these could be and I have this idea that the deepfakes lose quite a bit of their ‘oomph’ if they are ramped up over time or even overused (per ‘desensitization’ again).
In my mind what might separate an x-risk deepfake from the political cycle ones is that the most dangerous a deepfake might be is when it is not analyzed over time (like in a long political campaign*), but rather incorporated into or even causing an immediate decision… unsure.
*interesting to think of the new arena of (deep)fake news...