• DrownedRats@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Deepfakes are already being used on an industrial scale for scams and conning people.

    It’s not a case of them needing regulating because they offend peoples sensibilities, it’s because they’re actively being used to harm people.

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      8 months ago

      The past month or so I’ve started encountering quite a few deepfakes on dating sites. I honestly can’t tell they’re deepfakes just by looking; the only reason I’ve realised tell is because they were very obviously Instagram model photos. I reverse image searched them to find where they were taken from and confirm my suspicions that the profile’s using stolen photos, only to find that the original photos aren’t quite the same. It’ll be the exact same shot with the same body but a different face, and with identifying tattoos removed, moles adds, etc.

      If they weren’t obvious modelling shots that made me want to reverse image search them, I wouldn’t have known at all. It makes me wonder how many deepfaked images I’ve encountered on dating sites already and just not known about because they’ve been fairly innocuous-looking photos…

    • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, fraud used to be such a fun pastime for the whole family. Now we need to regulate it. Technology ruins everything.