More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction

More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction

  • rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auOPMEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      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’.

      • rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          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.

        • Deceptichum@quokk.auOPMEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          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.

    • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      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