Kidding aside, this is exactly how it will go down. Politician in a scrape of financial corruption or etc.? Deepfake s*x video or other viral blatant misinformation & obfuscation; what's the risk? Upside, no one knows what to believe. Exactly what various "countries" are doing. It will be extreme; to the point where, don't believe half of what you actually see.
It should be noted that this is a pretty bad end state. Reporting is already an extremely weak force for preventing corruption on the part of the powerful. Journalists entering a state of total uselessness is only going to make the problem bigger.
In a realm of total bullshit the winners are the one who are best at lying. "I don't know what to believe and everyone involved is probably corrupt" is usually just an excuse to disengage and follow base instincts.
> It should be noted that this is a pretty bad end state
I agree. The parent poster didn't ask what's the downside, and I think it's this: when no one knows what to believe and starts to distrust most things, society may start to fall apart, as society relies on us trusting each other.
So while I think disinformation is one of the best privacy strategies (not so different from differential privacy efforts by Google and others, suggested by the OP but without the term name), I think the more we lie to hide, the more we spin others and ourselves in circles.
I really like Sam Lessin's essay on this at The Information, where he talks about how, with the nature of the internet being so easy to share info, we have to start spreading disinfo to even close colleagues, so far as even lying to ourselves.
I think this paradox is one of the most challenging paradoxes of our time: the internet makes it so easy for us to open up and share and yet it makes it so hard for us to not open up and share.
>> "I don't know what to believe and everyone involved is probably corrupt" is usually just an excuse to disengage and follow base instincts.
It is ALSO the primary goal of dezinformatsia and "flood the zone with bullshit" (promoted by e.g., Steve Bannon) techniques. While some will believe even the most stupid conspiracy theories put out there, many more will just conclude that finding the real truth is impossible/impractical and just disengage. This is a deadly threat to democracy and a key tool to anyone who wants to destroy a society or own it as an autocrat.
> In a realm of total bullshit the winners are the one who are best at lying. "I don't know what to believe and everyone involved is probably corrupt" is usually just an excuse to disengage and follow base instincts.
Yeah, that's how you win referenda and presidential elections nowadays.
Ill never forget when the Iron Dome was first rolling out, this rocket researcher on the internet said it couldn't be done. He explained it pretty well, and I was convinced. Search google for Iron dome doesn't work (looking back to 2010-14) And yet, it does work (mostly).
So basically what I'm saying, this stuff is hard, and few people in the world can even verify your claim, never mind have access to the tech or AI behind it. But i'd bet with the Israelis.
Again, not sure if this turned out to be correct; but from reading reports on the ground and the lives Israel claimed it saved (and building more of them,) it seems evident he was in fact wrong.
He seems to be just a theoretic, not an actual military nor weapons manufacturer. From the start his pondering about unimportance of hitting engine instead of warhead is already very wrong and very theoretic. It is also very theoretic wish to hit the rocket frontally, I mean it would be great, it is a wet dream of any air defense, yet on practice hitting sideway chasing from behind is more realistic and still works great usually.
Sexual Morality has been a slippery slope for a long time; there is no real moral quality that we can asses. Its a moving goal post (in this case, seems like the elite are hoisted by their own petard, though I doubt the real powerful people ever get in trouble for their double standards)
In the end, I am guided by moral principles that increase fertility and increase family unity.
Seems like corporate America decided to kill sex and kids, so that their labor supply is increased and their employees will stay late. (And will eventually be hoisted by their own petard as the labor market shrinks, and consumer demand dries up.)
Then the ruling can be attacked as capricious and arbitrary, thereby negating any value to the judgement in the first place. Curious how they are going to deal with that.
I use FeedDemon. It has a feature called "Watches", which allows me to save terms I want to search. I have a deals Feed, and watch for whatever I want to buy. This feature is lacking in Google Reader.
