The second EOTC presentations gave me a realization that not all of my information is private and it was a little bit scary. A topic that intrigued me the most was Deepfakes. Deepfakes summed up are the way people make the funny videos of Donald Trump singing Firework by Katy Perry. They use technology that can manipulate your face into saying something you never said or doing something you never did. Like everything else there are pros and cons to the subject.
In the presentations, it was discussed that the negative impact of Deepfakes is bring lied to. Deepfakes can cause a lot of controversy regarding fake news. It is hard to know what is real and what is fake because some Deepfakes are designed so well you cannot see any flaws in the design and it looks real.
Some pros to Deepfakes is having the technology to take every feature off of a face and use it on another body. That is huge technology advancement and can be used for the good in proper hands. Deepfakes can extinguish a bad interview or a mess up in vocabulary or even letting a wrong word out. They can also make a funny video to make someone feel better, like the videos of the Presidents singing silly songs. That is used for comedy and personally I find it harmless. The real question is are people going to use it for that or are they going to take advantage of other people?
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