{"id":290312,"date":"2024-06-29T05:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T05:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=290312"},"modified":"2024-07-01T07:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:51:53","slug":"why-you-should-never-believe-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=290312","title":{"rendered":"Why you should NEVER believe your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian June 27, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The ad is simple. A bus is held up in traffic after hitting a fruit cart, a young female passenger looks out her window at a handsome young man in a convertible. She gets out of the bus, gets in the car, and the man drives her away like a chauffeur while she\u2019s eating a candy bar.<\/p>\n

The young woman is Audrey Hepburn.<\/p>\n

This has massively significant implications on our perception of the world in which we live, in ways nobody really talks about. But we\u2019ll come back to Audrey later.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t always seem like it, but humans are innately trusting.<\/p>\n

Whether an evolutionary development designed to make functioning as a social group easier, or a vestige of thousands of generations of religious thinking, deep down our automatic position is that most people \u2013 most of the time \u2013 are telling the truth.<\/p>\n

This is a natural inclination that tyrants have understood \u2013 and taken advantage of \u2013 for centuries.<\/p>\n

But however much trust we innately place in others, there\u2019s something we all trust more \u2013 our own eyes.<\/p>\n

We are visual creatures, and once somebody has seen something \u2013 or believes they have seen something \u2013 it is almost impossible to convince them they haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

And, these days, would-be tyrants can take advantage of that too.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the necessary and primal trust our brains have in our eyes lags behind the ability of technology to confound them.<\/p>\n

Deep Faking<\/strong> is, as most of us know, a video editing trick<\/a> that can seamlessly replace one face with another. It\u2019s not especially difficult, or expensive. All you need is the replacee<\/em> to have a passing superficial resemblance to the replacer<\/em>, a good number of photos showing different facial positions and the right computer software.<\/p>\n

4chan \u201cshitposters\u201d do it from the comfort of their own bedrooms for a laugh, replacing porn star faces with those of actresses, celebrities, politicians, and Nicolas Cage.<\/p>\n

Simply put, by the very nature of what it is, deep fake technology must make every<\/em> video showing any<\/em> face to some degree suspect.<\/p>\n

The potential for fakery doesn\u2019t stop at video, faking audio is getting easier and easier every year. With enough speech samples, voice synthesizers and voice cloners<\/strong> can make anyone say anything. This technology is getting better all the time and can mimic intonation perfectly.<\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence<\/strong> in general can draw, in seconds, any image you care to describe. It can generate photo-realistic faces<\/a> that could be used as \u201cvictims\u201d and \u201cmugshots\u201d, or cast any fake drama with fake actors.<\/p>\n

Free online tools can do all of the above passably already. Obviously, governments and mega-corporations would have access to more expensive advanced tools that would probably be near-impossible to detect.<\/p>\n

Hollywood movies deploy CGI to bring dead actors back to life<\/a>, add modern faces to old news footage, burn cities to the ground or make 60-year-olds look 20 again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let us return to Audrey Hepburn eating a candy bar and examine it afresh.<\/p>\n