Infocalypse Now: Deepfakes and the War on Democracy

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Attention, bots, trolls and rogue A.I.s! This week our own Nina Schick publishes her new book Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know – and its revelations about how high technology can create terrifyingly plausible fake humans in video or audio, for political ends, will scare the hell out of you. What can we do to stop bad actors from Russia, China and elsewhere from bringing about the literal collapse of consensual reality? Plus: The Brexit Drain to Spain. Peer-to-peer perfidy in the new Lords. And Iain Duncan Smith forgets to read the small print, again. “The number one goal is to create chaos and distrust on authority. Russia has been pushing the narrative that the CIA created COVID to kill Chinese people.” – Nina Schick “Trump has stoked this mistrust… Our damaged information system is corrupting our democracy.” – Nina Schick “If everything can be faked, and everyone has plausible deniability, then that’s open season for bad actors.” – Nina Schick Presented by Ros Taylor with Naomi Smith, Nina Schick and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too. Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan remainiacs.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Remaniacs!
0:09.9	Strap on your tennis shoes and open your checkbook. We've got some pierwages to own.
0:13.9	I'm Rob Taylor and joining me this week are three Lord and Ladies in the Realm or they will be
0:19.3	once the bank transfer goes through. Now you're me Smith is Chief Executive Best for Britain.
0:24.9	Naomi welcome. Hello, Baroness.
0:29.3	Rob Zermenthaler. Where where where would you choose?
0:33.8	Oh that's a tough one. Birth Village, upper assly, I don't know.
0:41.4	This week on our sister pod the bunker we discussed Johnson's latest pierwages with ex-Altory
0:46.7	David Gorg. What do you make your pierwage list?
0:51.1	No because you know novel novel idea here but what about elections?
0:56.2	All this stuff from Johnson has just like completely further undermined the legitimacy of the
1:02.4	Lords in the eyes of sensible people and it's a bloody infeabled chamber anyway and it usually
1:08.6	backs down after it does the sort of minor challenge of the government every single time.
1:13.6	So I reckon like let let the existing lot keep their unerific titles and you know there
1:18.8	husbands and wives and their children can keep those but force them to stand for election if
1:23.1	they want to keep legislating and I'm afraid in my view the same would go for Gorky.
1:27.8	In London is editor of politics.co.uk and did a quiz about Scottish politics on last weeks
1:32.8	and you European. Oh fuck. Get it in early to Ian yeah. He did Romaniax proud by Scoria Commendable
1:40.9	zero. Welcome. Yeah hi yeah I mean I thought I'm just like I am just shitter quizzes. It's not
1:52.3	just Scottish history that I know nothing about it's pretty much anything that isn't like
1:56.6	current affairs and conflicts so it wasn't that unusual really. You really hate them don't you
2:01.8	because I've been on stage with you next to you doing a quiz and you're like oh my god you just
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