I Deep Faked Myself, Here's Why It Matters

Imagine people deepfaking security tapes to frame people in the future. That’s scary.

Honestly, this is probably the type of tech that scares me the most. Deepfakes could be used to literally ruin someone’s life and reputation. Frightening…

There's already a teenager out there who got their reputation ruined. She was just doing tiktoks and then someone decided to put her face on nude photos which then got scattered across the internet. She tried to explain that it's not her body and that it is not her but unfortunately people continue to comment about "she was asking for it", "ok, but when will you have only fans page" and other things.

This will be the government’s new answer to everything when called out for their crimes.

I have 12 years of video editing experience. My specialization is interview editing. I look at and analyse faces through a screen all day, every (business) day. I could instantly tell when you showed a deep fake...except two times. I second guessed myself, and that is what scares me. Even with thousands of hours of carefully pinpointing imperfections in digital video of faces, I still couldn't be sure immediately. If I can't tell, how can we expect anyone to tell? I regret my hope as a child that I would live in an "interesting" time.

What scares me the most is how long it took everyone to notice all of this, because I remembered that in 2014-2015 I talked and showed about deepfake to my parents, uncles and friends and saying how in 10 years we would have stuff like what we have already today (although with that very optimistic energy that I had in middleschool and never thinking about the bad things that could be made with it), and all of them told basically the same, that I am crazy or way too optimistic and that we wouldn’t have such stuff until like in a 100 years But guess what, NOT EVEN 10 YEARS HAVE HAPPENED

You know, when I was a kid (born ‘87) I was so fascinated by the future and loved sci-fi so much. That was true even as a young adult, always a tech enthusiast, but fast forward just a few years and we are already living in the future I thought was still far off. It was all fun and games back then, but now I realize it’s actually really scary and so uncertain. I finally finished playing Cyberpunk 2077 and it was great but eerie. I can no longer enjoy these genres without any fear. I might start playing/reading/watching more fantasy to escape to completely different and in a way simpler worlds.

it's scary how quick this has became a reality..

One day I won’t need a mask for videos anymore, just pick a new face in post production.

I’m old, and back in 1995-ish I remember people talking about being afraid in the near future that we would no longer be able to distinguish real video from fake. Deep fakes are exactly what they where talking about before it had this name.

i am not normally a technology doomer - quite the opposite usually - but when these started popping up in earnest a few years, it struck me as a real terrifying pandora's box. they've low key terrified me ever since. also, since you talk about deep fake tech in entertainment, i do need to point out that it's not all good news there, and this is a big chunk of what wga and sag strikers are hoping to mitigate with their recent union actions. it has the potential to really change a lot of working artists' lives and not necessarily for the better

How good deep fakes have gotten in such a short amount of time is horrifying. We are critically underestimating the problems that this is going to cause.

Trust issues with Johnny since this video published: 📈

I actually wrote my master's thesis on this last year (and soon PhD)! I'm glad this is getting more attention. To contrast all the doom and gloom, Professor Hany Farid (UC Berkley) mentioned that the advancement of deepfakes is getting better, but so too is the technology used to detect it. But it is a shame something so impactful is being used for such nefarious purposes.

Honestly though I am glad you are putting this information out here.Great video ; very informative. ❤

Thank you for making this video. I will be shearing this and using it to educate people I know who think I am being alarmist! Keep up the good work!

There are scammers out there right now, calling you thru face time and deep fake to claim to be a person you know and scam you. Just be careful.

The worst part about this isn't that it's dangerous and it can spread wrong information but that it does absolutely no good to us whatsoever

I warned of this decades ago & now It’s finally caught up with us. This is gonna be messed up beyond our imagination. Hang in there cuz this is one hellish ride

I seriously had no idea about this. Thanks for this interesting information.