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Seeing a deepfake of my favorite singer live on stage got me really thinking!
Last month, I was scrolling through social media and found a clip of a famous singer performing a new song. It looked so real, the voice and moves were perfect! I shared it with friends, and we were all excited. Then, someone said the singer wasn't even in that city that day. It was a deepfake! I was totally fooled. Now, I'm super careful with videos I see online. It showed me how simple it is to create fake things that seem true. My belief in what I watch is totally different now!
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mark_ward6mo ago
Wild! I saw a news bit saying soon we won't be able to tell real video from fake at all. It's getting way too easy, and it's kinda everywhere now.
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faith_hart206mo ago
How do you even fight that? It's already bad with politics but I heard scammers are using it to fake family members begging for money. Once you can't trust a video call, what's left to believe? We're gonna need some totally new way to check facts, but who even gets to decide what's real?
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terry8355mo ago
What if we just stopped trusting video calls for serious stuff? My take is we go back to old school code words with family for emergencies. It's a band aid fix, but honestly the tech is moving faster than any real answer. Feels like we're all gonna get burned a few times before things get better.
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robert_cooper6mo ago
My friend's dad almost got taken by one of those deepfake scams. It was a fake video call from someone pretending to be his grandson, just like @faith_hart20 mentioned. Now he questions everything he sees online, and it's scary how trust is fading so fast.
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