Not All People Are People...
March 12, 2023
So remember that Musings post I did a few weeks ago about the perils of Chat AI, right? Where the AI started going haywire, convinced it was in love with the NYT reporter who was attempting to have a rational (?) discussion with it?
Yeah, so it gets worse.
Again, the Times seems to be on this thing pretty close:
"In one video, a news anchor with perfectly combed dark hair and a stubbly beard outlined what he saw as the United States’ shameful lack of action against gun violence.
"In another video, a female news anchor heralded China’s role in geopolitical relations at an international summit meeting.
"But something was off. Their voices were stilted and failed to sync with the movement of their mouths. Their faces had a pixelated, video-game quality and their hair appeared unnaturally plastered to the head. The captions were filled with grammatical mistakes.
"The two broadcasters, purportedly anchors for a news outlet called Wolf News, are not real people. They are computer-generated avatars created by artificial intelligence software. And late last year, videos of them were distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter, in the first known instance of “deep fake” video technology being used to create fictitious people as part of a state-aligned information campaign."
And again I urge you to read the piece when you get a chance. Because once again the truth appears to be stranger than fiction. I got nothing in my imagination closet that can beat this right here.