The Future Will Be Synthesised - Episode 1
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
What do we want the synthetic future to look like? It’s seeping into our everyday lives, but are we ready? We need a conversation about the legal, policy and ethical implications for society.
Deepfakes’ murky origins are in a form of sexual image abuse that is being used against hundreds of thousands of people, most of them women. Presenter and synthetic media expert Henry Ajder speaks to journalist Sam Cole, who first reported on deepfakes in 2018. She uncovered a Reddit forum sharing pornographic videos with the faces of famous Hollywood actresses transposed on to the bodies of porn performers. Since then the technology has become much more accessible and ordinary women have become the target. Henry interviews a woman who was targeted with deepfake image abuse, and considers what we can do to protect citizens from synthetic media’s malicious uses. Interviewees: Sam Cole, Vice; Noelle Martin, campaigner; Jesselyn Cook, NBC
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, I'm Henry Ida, and this is seriously from BBC Radio 4. You're listening to The Future |
| 0:46.0 | Will Be Synthesized, my exploration of the world of synthetic media. In the first |
| 0:51.2 | episode we speak to three women who've been reporting on and fighting against deep fake pornography. You may not know it, but we're at the beginning of a synthetic revolution. |
| 1:10.0 | My name's Henry Ida and I'm an expert on deepfakes and synthetic media technologies. |
| 1:14.6 | Over the next five episodes of this series, I'm investigating synthetic media. |
| 1:19.0 | From the dark underworld to a more hopeful future and asking why does it matter? |
| 1:26.0 | So what is synthetic media? |
| 1:28.0 | Synthetic media, also called deep fakes, |
| 1:31.0 | are media created using artificial intelligence. They can make it appear as if someone |
| 1:36.3 | is doing or saying something they didn't do or say. |
| 1:40.5 | Throughout history, media has gone through revolutions, from the Gutenberg press to Photoshop |
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