Fake social media

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Do These A.I.-Created Fake People Look Real to You? - The New York Times

PICTURES OF PEOPLE IN THIS BLOG ARE AI GENERATED

Most of the people that have daily access to the internet, also have accounts on social services. Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn are platforms, which in short make communication and other interpersonal activities easier and faster. Sometimes profiles which you can find there, are simply fake. There were attempts to create a system that automatically detects and deletes those but often it was not as successful. People though, could find inconsistency and tell apart real and fake ones with ease, thus these profiles were not creating much danger. Recently however, a new type of technology and a threat to social media called a “deepfake” was created. It artificially generates images or videos of people’s faces, based on photos already existing in the database.

Since deepfake became known, there have been created videos of politicians or celebrities in unbelievable situations. These were obviously jokes, and could be seen through if paid enough attention to irregularities in person’s mimics. However, if someone is able to make such an illusion, with an intention of a joke, what would be possible with professional equipment and resources.

Algorytm Disneya tworzy bardzo realistyczne deepfake'i [Wideo] - Instalki.pl

Fake accounts are created with different intentions. Many are unharmful like trolling and advertising but there are cases of money extortion. LinkedIn, as an employment oriented platform is especially exposed to this influence. With the problem progressing, service users will gradually become more skeptical to new acquaintances from it. This creates additional barrier between employer and possible employee.

Images of people created using deepfake technology poses extreme potential threat to all of the social media. Jokingly created Obama speech or fabricated Zelensky’s video in which he surrenders, are example of what chaos can be done, if put effort into.

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Sources:

https://gizmodo.com/move-over-global-disinformation-campaigns-deepfakes-ha-1848716481

One thought on “Fake social media

  1. 47413-EX says:

    We can talk about this problem which is nowadays also a plague on instagram. For me, what is dangerous with these fake faces is rather the influence they can have on users. Indeed, most of the influences use this way to modify these photos in order to reach the current beauty standard. This is a very big problem for young people who evolve through social networks and build themselves with fake models. I think that social networks should find a solution to this problem.

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