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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

When a Thing Becomes A Different Thing

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

News

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What do we need from journalism?  How about the wide embrace of the notion that we need standards of truth?  

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0:00.0

When a thing becomes a completely different thing, it's one more thing.

0:04.3

Armstrong and Getty.

0:05.5

One more thing.

0:08.3

Before we get to that, though, I just watched the video, because I hadn't seen it.

0:13.2

I only heard it.

0:15.3

Of the latest example of how good deepfakes have become, somebody put Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Napoleon Dynamite.

0:23.5

You can check it out at Armstrong and Getty.com, but it is the best one of those I've ever seen, I think,

0:29.4

and the technology is so much better than it was a year ago.

0:33.3

I mean, as I said on the R, I found the video utterly unrecognizable as a fake.

0:42.4

I mean, it was completely convincing.

0:44.9

Well, right.

0:45.1

And that was, this is making Arnold Schwarzenegger be the Uncle Rico character in Napoleon Dynamite, which is fun, but unnecessary.

0:52.8

For a damaging society standpoint,

0:55.7

you could have the person be themselves,

0:58.1

like Donald Trump or Joe Biden or your local mayor or whatever.

1:01.4

You don't even need to go through the craziness of fitting them into somebody else's hair and head.

1:07.0

You just have them saying something loathsome and try to ruin them.

1:14.7

I don't know how we're going to deal with this as a society.

1:17.2

But anyway, check it out the latest at Armstrong and Getty.com.

1:20.1

So we talked about this the other day on the radio show.

1:23.3

They are actually teaching at many of the top journalism schools in America that objectivity

1:30.0

is bad.

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