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kleinbl00  ·  2077 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Deepfakes” Creates Fake Celebrity Porn.

Snark is not knowledge. You're able to pronounce "provenance" and by implying that I am an untrustworthy intellectual you are aligning yourself with the historical forces of fascism and mob rule. Are you sure you want to do that?

If you prefer, I can talk to you like the idiots you're apparently siding with and say "It's from the Tonight Show, Ben. CBS dug it up over two years ago. And when you argue that any licentious (sorry, I meant 'bad') image of the President must be fake, you're arguing exactly what the Russians want you to argue."

Fundamentally, this is a discussion about the trustworthiness of networks (is "trustworthiness" too big a word for you, Ben?). It is a trivial (simple? Easy? Not hard? How low-brow do you want to go, Ben?) matter to evaluate the trustworthiness of this particular clip. Where things get difficult - and where the discussion should be had - is when untrustworthy data is treated as trustworthy and disseminated ("spread around"). Ask Dan Rather.

Have you noticed that lately, you like substituting platitudes for knowledge, Ben? I have. And I think it's what makes you angry.

Life is not a Deep Thought by Jack Handey.