#2650: Deepfakes explain

[White Hat and Cueball are walking to the right.]

White Hat: Thanks to deepfakes, soon we won’t know what’s real anymore. Video will become meaningless.

[White Hat and Cueball walk on, Cueball lifts one hand with the palm up.]

Cueball: I dunno.

Cueball: We’ve had Photoshop for decades and staged photos for centuries.

Cueball: It hasn’t made photos meaningless.

[Zoom in on Cueball, who is turned left towards off-panel White Hat.]

Cueball: The bottleneck for fake stuff isn’t technical. The bottleneck is willingness to lie.

Cueball: “People lying” is a very old problem.

Cueball: It’s a known exploit.

[Zoom back out on White Hat and Cueball who have stopped. White Hat has a hand on his jaw. Cueball holds his hands out to the sides.]

White Hat: I guess technically we’ve been able to make text deepfakes for 5,000 years.

Cueball: Maybe Ea-nasir’s copper ingots were actually fine!