When a Thing Becomes A Different Thing
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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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