Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
One way to look at the possible effects of deepfakes in politics is to look at "shallow fakes" that have been possible for a long time. For example, this screenshot purporting to be a "you're free to say whatever nasty stuff you want" whitelist for twitter. I actually have no idea if this is real or fake, but there definitely are some people who are treating it as real, imo without sufficient evidence. And yet, the effects of things like this are pretty bounded. This feels like a plausible outcome for deepfakes in politics. The smart people know not to trust a politician's statements without confirmation on official channels, and less smart people get tricked, as they do today with shallow fakes. If something fake goes viral, Community Notes can help on the margin in making it clear that it's fake. Most normies don't actually look at this stuff in real time, and so the effect ends up not too bad. This is the strongest case for not being too worried. The place where I am *more* worried about deepfakes is...
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
... financial scams. This is an area where many people have no existing defenses - their family members desperately calling them saying they really need a big pile of money quickly. Or the corporate equivalent of the same. This is the reason I wrote this article: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/02/09/securityquestions.html Though we really need a much stronger concerted education effort in this regard. Also much better authentication across the stack.
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Future of Radio
@michael-smith
In Athens, GA, AADM created a movement that is synchronized purposefully with onchain projects. Your thoughts over the years on small circles of trusted humans protecting wallets. Your idea for small circles to use key phrases to prevent financial harm next levels your thoughts. We are creating a new network in Athen with 7 yrs of infra behind it to transfer ownership of an open song studio and put a sign in the front yard. "A century old house owned by 21 people". Your guidance on protecting wallets is how we are protecting the investment fund wallet. Thank you so much I will pass this to our network!
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