Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Will a Certain Type of Private Property Protection Prevent a Certain Kind of Artificial Intelligence Abuse?

It certainly could.

Jordan Peele and BuzzFeed teamed up to make the below fake youtube video using AI to create a statement by "President Obama".



According to Verge:
The video was made by Peele’s production company using a combination of old and new technology: Adobe After Effects and the AI face-swapping tool FakeApp. The latter is the most prominent example of how AI can facilitate the creation of photorealistic fake videos. It started life on Reddit as a tool for making fake celebrity porn, but it has since become a worrying symbol of the power of AI to generate misinformation and fake news.
Yes, we’ve had software to create fakes for a while, but AI makes the whole process easier. Researchers have developed tools that let you perform face swaps like the one above in real time; Adobe is creating a “Photoshop for audio” that lets you edit dialogue as easily as a photo; and a Canadian startup named Lyrebird offers a service that lets you fake someone else’s voice with just a few minutes of audio. Technologist Aviv Ovadya summed up the fears created by this tech, asking BuzzFeed News.
Obviously, these type of fake AI creations could lead to all kinds of problems.

In a Private Property Society, the solution would be simple: Property owners could prohibit the use of images and audio of others without their permission.

Of course, there could be wacko property owners who would prefer living in a wacko world where truth could not be told from fiction, sort of a circus world of distortion mirrors. Good luck if you want to spend most of your time on that kind of property.

Be careful, the alternative is government determining "trusted news sources," which is what is really being promoted in the video. Listen to the end of the video carefully.

-Robert Wenzel  

4 comments:

  1. "In a Private Property Society, the solution would be simple: Property owners could prohibit the use of images and audio of others without their permission."

    So how is this enforced? Laws are for those who can't be controlled any other way and code of conduct is for those who can get it and abide by it.

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  2. Read the Private Property Society book (https://amzn.to/2EXGQDi), especially chapter 12 "Police Protection is a Private Property Society"

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    1. Will they tolerate pirate PPS’s that don’t acknowledge IP?

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    2. If someone is using their own private property (cameras, computers, studio, etc.) to make fake images of others, exactly what violation of someone else's private property are they committing that justifies the use of force by others against this person or his equipment?

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