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Andrew Yang Podcast

Is anything real? Nina Schick on the future of deepfakes.

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Nina Schick, author of Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse, takes us into the world of synthetic media, where videos and audio can be convincingly altered without us noticing. Nina and Andrew talk about the incredible advances in deepfake technology, how we can restore trust in a world where any video can be manipulated, and how deepfakes enable figures like Trump to benefit from something known as the "liar's dividend."

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wRbRqJ3yCKU

Nina Schick - https://twitter.com/NinaDSchick | https://ninaschick.org

Andrew Yang - https://instagram.com/andrewyang | https://movehumanityforward.com

Zach Graumann - https://instagram.com/zachgraumann | https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann

Transcript

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0:00.0

I know you've been advising the Biden campaign.

0:02.8

I advised Biden on deep fakes two years ago.

0:06.6

Do we have the technology right now

0:08.2

that could go through and be like fake, fake, fake, fake, fake,

0:11.2

and then there's one real one in there and be like real?

0:14.0

So right, um, ish.

0:18.3

Could you have a tool that gives you like a spectrum of probability?

0:23.6

Yeah, and that is how those detection tools work right now.

0:26.5

The ones that are already out there, they're like,

0:28.1

oh, this is 90% probably synthetic.

0:30.7

But in four years time, when it is time for the next election,

0:34.7

some experts who I speak to think that as much as 90% of video content online could be synthetic.

0:40.7

So, oh gosh.

0:42.6

I think there's a short window in which something can still be done.

0:46.4

I mean, a democracy can only work.

0:48.7

Liberal democracy can only work if you have some kind of objective reality

0:54.0

and some commitment to truth and the pursuit of truth.

0:57.3

If the pursuit of truth no longer matters,

0:59.6

then the only thing that matters is power.

1:12.2

And now it's my pleasure to welcome to Yang's speaks author, expert on deep fakes and AI

1:19.2

and misinformation, commentator, uh, trained at Cambridge University,

1:23.8

among other places, the amazing Nina Shik, Nina welcome.

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