The White House wants to ‘cryptographically verify’ videos of Joe Biden so viewers don’t mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden’s AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is “in the works.”

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    9 months ago

    Maybe deepfakes are enough of a scare that this becomes standard practice, and protects encryption from getting government backdoors.

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        9 months ago

        Hey, congresscritters didn’t give a shit about robocalls till they were the ones getting robocalled.

        We had a do not call list within a year and a half.

        That’s the secret, make it affect them personally.

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          9 months ago

          Doesn’t that prove that government officials lack empathy? We see it again and again but still we keep putting these unfeeling bastards in charge.

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            9 months ago

            Well sociopaths are really good at navigating power hierarchies and I’m not sure there is an ethical way of keeping them from holding office.