{"id":7148,"date":"2019-06-19T10:13:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:14:35","slug":"facebook-refused-to-delete-an-altered-video-of-nancy-pelosi-would-the-same-rule-apply-to-mark-zuckerberg-the-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7148","title":{"rendered":"Facebook refused to delete an altered video of Nancy Pelosi. Would the same rule apply to Mark Zuckerberg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/341794473\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/341794473\">&#8216;Imagine this for a second&#8230;&#8217; (2019)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user12695491\">Bill Posters<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A \u2018deepfake\u2019 of Zuckerberg was uploaded to Instagram and appears to show him delivering an ominous message<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The issue of &#8220;deepfakes&#8221; is big on the internet after someone posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/23\/politics\/doctored-video-pelosi\/index.html\">slowed down video of Nancy Pelosi<\/a> to make her look drunk and then, after Facebook didn&#8217;t take it down a group posted a fake Zuckerberg video. See&nbsp; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelily.com\/facebook-refused-to-delete-an-altered-video-of-nancy-pelosi-would-the-same-rule-apply-to-mark-zuckerberg\/\">Facebook refused to delete an altered video of Nancy Pelosi. Would the same rule apply to Mark Zuckerberg?<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>This video was created by artists Posters and Howe and is part of a series<\/p>\n<p>While the Pelosi video was a crude hack, the Zuckerberg video used AI technology from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cannyai.com\/\">Canny AI<\/a>, a company that has developed tools for replacing dialogue in video (which has legitimate uses in localization of educational content, for example.) The artists provided a voice actor with a script and then the AI trained on existing video of Zuckerberg and that of the voice actor to morph Zuckerberg&#8217;s facial movements to match the actor&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting is that the Zuckerberg video is part of an installation called <a href=\"http:\/\/billposters.ch\/spectre-launch\/\">Spectre<\/a> with a number of deliberate fakes that were exhibited at&nbsp; a venue associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sheffdocfest.com\/\">Sheffield Doc|Fest<\/a>. Spectre, as the name suggests, both suggests how our data can be used to create ghost media of us, but also reminds us playfully of that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SPECTRE\">fictional criminal organization<\/a> that haunted James Bond. We are now being warned that real, but spectral organizations could haunt our democracy, messing with elections anonymously.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iEZQqsgBPTg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Imagine this for a second&#8230;&#8217; (2019) from Bill Posters on Vimeo. A \u2018deepfake\u2019 of Zuckerberg was uploaded to Instagram and appears to show him delivering an ominous message The issue of &#8220;deepfakes&#8221; is big on the internet after someone posted a slowed down video of Nancy Pelosi to make her look drunk and then, after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook refused to delete an altered video of Nancy Pelosi. Would the same rule apply to Mark Zuckerberg?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,27,22,60,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-media-and-news","category-streaming-media","category-surveillance","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}