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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a DEEPFAKE - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
+ | A {{w|deepfake}} is an altered video, designed to deceive by replacing a person in a video. White Hat believes that this technology will make it difficult to trust videos. However, Cueball responds by saying that "fakes" have always existed, in photos (either through {{w|photoshopping|alterations by software such as Adobe Photoshop}}, or deliberately staging fakes images, e.g. the {{w|Loch Ness Monster}}) and even moreso by people simply lying. White Hat comes around to Cueball's position and says that even the written word is prone to deception and lying. | ||
− | + | Scientific studies of deepfakes have produced surprising results, suggesting that they are more likely to increase uncertainty than persuade,[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120903408] that their increased prevalence could inoculate the public against {{w|disinformation}},[https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/150489] and that they are more likely to be shared because of their humorousness than persuasiveness.[http://essay.utwente.nl/91654/] | |
− | + | The {{w|complaint tablet to Ea-nasir}} is an ancient clay tablet, in which a customer complains to a merchant, Ea-nasir, about his copper ingots. Cueball's last statement says that perhaps this complaint could've been a lie to begin with, and there was nothing wrong with Ea-nasir's wares. | |
− | + | The title text references the {{w|Cottingley Fairies}}, a series of photographs of "fairies" by two children, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, who were 16 and 9, respectively. The photographs received widespread attention when Sir {{w|Arthur Conan Doyle}}, the author of the Sherlock Holmes series, used the photos as proof of paranormal phenomena in a 1920 magazine article. In 1983, Elsie and Frances confessed that the photos had been faked. | |
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− | The title text references the {{w|Cottingley Fairies}}, a series of | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[White Hat and Cueball | + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | :[White Hat and Cueball walking to the right] | ||
:White Hat: Thanks to deepfakes, soon we won't know what's real anymore. Video will become meaningless. | :White Hat: Thanks to deepfakes, soon we won't know what's real anymore. Video will become meaningless. | ||
− | :[White Hat and Cueball walk | + | :[White Hat and Cueball continuing to walk to the right] |
:Cueball: I dunno. | :Cueball: I dunno. | ||
− | :Cueball: We've had Photoshop for decades and staged photos for centuries. | + | :Cueball: We've had Photoshop for decades and staged photos for centuries. |
:Cueball: It hasn't made photos meaningless. | :Cueball: It hasn't made photos meaningless. | ||
− | :[Zoom in on Cueball | + | :[Zoom in on Cueball] |
:Cueball: The bottleneck for fake stuff isn't technical. The bottleneck is willingness to lie. | :Cueball: The bottleneck for fake stuff isn't technical. The bottleneck is willingness to lie. | ||
:Cueball: "People lying" is a very old problem. | :Cueball: "People lying" is a very old problem. | ||
:Cueball: It's a known exploit. | :Cueball: It's a known exploit. | ||
− | :[Zoom back out on White Hat and Cueball who have stopped. White Hat has a hand on his | + | :[Zoom back out on White Hat and Cueball who have stopped. White Hat has a hand on his chin. Cueball has his hands to the side.] |
− | :White Hat: I guess technically we've been able to make | + | :White Hat: I guess technically we've been able to make ''text'' deepfakes for 5,000 years. |
:Cueball: Maybe Ea-nasir's copper ingots were actually fine! | :Cueball: Maybe Ea-nasir's copper ingots were actually fine! | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
− | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | |
[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]] | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring real people]] | [[Category:Comics featuring real people]] | ||
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