RE: LIVING IN WORLD OF MISINFORMATION AND DISTRUST - is it indeed our future? Please join discussion.
There has always been fake news. Trump started out calling the traditional media as fake news. Centralized media felt that it lost control over the news they pushed because suddenly both people in power (Trump) and consumers (using the Internet and other sources that were no longer centralized) didn't support them as the official truth anymore. What came back is a fight from them claiming everything is either fake news or at least highly suspect, if it wasn't coming from them. They want to get the control back by asking to control and regulate all information out there. Of course they would again take a central role in this. At the same time technology is moving on. With deep data analytics, AI, deep fakes etc a lot of new things can be faked. Again, this would mostly be done by people in power (Facebook, Google, etc). However we can fight back, using our decentralized technologies. For every faked news item out there, data analytics and AI can be used to check the value of that news. Blockchain can be used to trace back pieces of info to the source, using smart contracts and tokens small AI researchers over the whole world can work together on AI etc etc The struggle for power will continue.
Great seeing your comment again @frankvvv
Thanks for your never ending support :)
But how expensive it would be to proceed with it. Not everyone could afford. Even currently it's hard to recognize which written news is real or fake.
Can you imagine that right now AI could already create 'fake' video of your favourite influencer in which he would make some fake statements, which could affect your financial decisions
Some people mentioned that we need to develop solutions that will allow us to distinguish fake audio/video from real one.
That's a great business opportunity for those who can provide such a solutions. Dont you think?
I like the way you described it :)
Big thx for taking the time to reply,
Yours
Piotr
Wouldn't be that expensive. It's easier to detect fakes than it is to make them. These programs already do exist. Also, right now everyone can make "deep fakes". If you got a good GPU and some open source software + some days to let it calculate everything, you are good to go.
as long as it's more expensive to create fakes than to detect them, then we're quite safe