🔒 Deepfake and the truth crisis

Dariusz Jemielniak: Today we’ll talk about the safety issues and potential threats related to AI. Because, darn it, safety seems like an ever bigger challenge, including technologically.

Aleksandra Przegalińska: I thought a lot about this before we met here today. The topic that I’m most into right now is deepfakes, which are being used in increasingly stranger ways. Over the past two years, I’ve been watching these desperate profiles on Instagram that make fun of politicians in many countries – like transforming them in various ways, turning them into bodybuilders or elderly ladies, morphing some current president into a grandma, and so on. It’s a form of public, political commentary, and in that sense it’s probably allowed. Anyway, I don’t see any of these forums getting deleted. I’m curious though, whether seeing such a video amid others on their Instagram feed, everyone actually knows that it’s satire. For sure, anyone who wants to check can click on the account and read the small print caption. But considering the tremendous flood of content we’re dealing with, it’s easier to get lost. I think we’re having some kind of epistemological crisis – less and less clarity about what’s true and what’s not from what we see and hear.