Deepfake Racist Audio Frames School Principal | Clip

Deep fakes are coming to Main Street: We’ll tell you the story of how they caused turmoil in a Maryland high school and what, if anything, can be done to fight them.
Additional Reading:
School Employee Arrested After Racist Deepfake Recording of Principal Spreads
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/te...
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[@jeremiahwaters9089]

Shout out to Baltimore Banner! They've been doing great work!

[@kavorka8855]

Google's gone so deeply Woke, now certain comments are only visible to the user, they hide it without the user knowing their comments are hidden. This's becoming unbearable.

[@hardfork]

Are you worried about deepfakes in your day to day life?

[@ReddoFreddo]

I don't think it will be effective at spreading misinformation in the long term, but if nothing is done it will be very effective at refuting real information. Recording devices will be useless for journalists, whistle blowers, and people trying to gather evidence, because the result will be indistinguishable from fake AI voices.
You should be able to switch on an option in your camera or microphone app that gives the raw output a unique ID that's stored in some kind of database, which can confirm without a doubt that it's real.
The database would have to be organized in such a way that people can't claim it's controlled by the lizard people, so it would probably have to be decentralized and open source.