EOTO Deep Fakes #9

      With artificial intelligence becoming more advanced, making deep fakes have became more common and more realistic. A deep fake is a realistic looking unreal video that's created by using computer software. People also are trying to figure out if deep fakes are protected by the first amendment. While the First Amendment safeguards the right to free expression, including the right to create and share content. There are certain limits to this freedom when it comes to certain forms of speech. The First Amendment will never support a Deep fake that is created to spread threats. It's interesting see how rules and peoples options on deep fakes change daily. Deep fakes and be used in both positive and negative ways. People can use deep fakes as entertainment which is a positive use. With the use of deep fakes we can bring back actors that have passed away and use them in movie scenes. Theres also a lot of social media accounts that use deep fakes to make "AI Music." An example of this is putting Spongebobs voice on the song Marry You by Bruno Mars. Deep fakes can also be used in a positive educational way. For example, surgeons can create made up situations to teach new surgeons content that could be helpful. Our military can use them in a similar way to create situations to better train our troops. There also a lot of cons that come with deep fakes. People can make fake convincing videos to change a group of peoples opinions on a view point. These deep fakes usually use a well known people to manipulate groups of people. Another con about deep fakes are people can make threats and it will look like another person said them. I couldn't imagine waking up one day and checking my phone and seeing a deep fake of me saying something that I didn't say. Lastly deep fakes can be a threat to cyber Security. As the technology advances it becomes more accessible. Potentially enabling terrible people to create deep fakes for cyber crimes such as identity theft or financial fraud.            The use of deep fake technology significantly alters societal perceptions and trust in digital media. As deep fakes get used more society is going to have to understand that not everything they see online is real. A deep fake is very easy to make this day in age. Anyone can go onto the App store and pay a subscription to an app. After paying they just need to pick a famous person and type in what the want to make them say. Deep fakes will affect the rich people the most in society as they are more targeted as rich people tend to be well known. Rich people could also be targeted to try to make them lose their high paying job. I have seen a lot of deep fakes and they really could ruin someones life. I hope that as time goes on, people will be able to make some sort of deep fake detector so that peoples lives do not get ruined.