DeepFake videos and the loss of history

On a day when I already feel out of kilter this has upset me more than anything.

I have studied history all my life, including for my university degree and throughout my life I have believed that facts were verifiable and we could rely on what history tells us despite the different interpretations.

Now, artificial intelligence puts all that into doubt. "History" can now be created in front of a computer screen, rewritten at the whim of those who seek to manipulate us.

The loss of history and values 

that shaped our civilisation

In Event of Moon Disaster - Nixon Deepfake Clips

There is more on this HERE

New technology manages to accurately manipulate images according to a source video; D-ID claims service not meant to replace actors, but allow them to work from home during and after virus pandemic

This deep-learning technology can manipulate images to replicate even the finest movement in a source video, called a "driver."

D-ID's new service could save film and television productions countless shooting days. Star actors will only have to arrive at the set once and have their picture taken. The rest of the shooting can be done from anywhere else. D-ID offers a mobile app that allows actors to animate images with their takes.

The model can also generate teeth that match the original image even if the person is pictured with their mouth closed.

"We've created a model that is divided into three deep-learning networks and trained it on tens of thousands of videos of people talking," said D-ID Chief Technological Officer Eliran Kuta. "If the driver smiles and exposes their teeth but the image has a person pictured with their mouth closed, the model can replicate the missing pixels and adjust them to match the target face."

This has happened in the past.Most such falsification of history is associated with communists and was a fairly crude airbrushing out from photos of 'non-persons'

 Stalin airbrushed out Leon Trotsky

He also airbrushed out his secret police chief, Yezhov after having him shot

Look at the things that are now seen as been indicative of racism:  rugged individualism; the family structure; the scientific method;  the "Protestant work ethic"; religion; a sense of history.

Courtesy: the National Museum of African American history and culture

Courtesy: the National Museum of African American history and culture