Marcus - I do like the idea that a good "comedy team" might effectively de-weaponize deep-fakes... like The Yes Men or SNL perhaps... there is the risk that such "normalizes" deep fakes, but to the extent that it is already on it's way... comedy-ifying may be the best (least-worst) alternative?
After Trump's ascendancy showed it's worst true-colors I had any number of "comedy-centric" ideations to generate a crowd-sourced reaction. The first (dark) one was called "take a Dump for Trump" and involved variations on the old teenager's bad joke of placing a burning bag of dogshit on a rival's porch to be "stomped out". The second was more campy and involved collecting donations to be put into a fund to pay out "bounties" on pie-throwers. Think of an Iraq-War style pack of cards with faces/names/bounties on Trump and his inner-mid-outer circles. Maybe starting with a $1 bounty for anyone who has shaken hands with him, spiraling in toward those working/living in the White House... It would surely play havoc for the Secret Service but more entertaining I can just imagine the distortion of security at Mara Lago for him and his. Would his aides who got booed out of restaurants a few years back instead have gotten a pie in the face (and a bounty big enough to fund future operations paid to the pie-thrower?). Imagine all the pies being confiscated at the entry to one of his rallys? With a $1 bounty on any rally attender, you might see a very different style and texture of counter-protest. While there would surely be civil and legal consequences... there *would* also be a comic-relief and perhaps de-escalation of self-seriousness consequence as well. I wonder if anyone has a (meta?) model of this kind of "changing the game"? - Steve > Steve writes: > > < I don't know how deeply technical the presumed election-manipulation > of 2016 (now 2020) is, but it *does* seem like the work you reference > here implies that with the information venues/vectors like streaming > video (TV, Movies, Clips, attendant advertising) and social media > (FB/Insta/Twit...) the understanding and tools are already in place to > significantly manipulate public opinion. Based on my anecdotal > experience about people's *certainty*, this article is very > on-point. And this doesn't even reference the technology of "deep > fakes". > > > What would be some fun deep fakes? He’s decided the wall was all a > big mistake and that now families in the south will be required to > give up their living room floor and extra bedrooms for families that > cross the border? The especially vulnerable, like gender-conflicted > teens are at the front of the line. Once a week will be (mandatory) > take your visitor to work day, where you train them to do your job. > Another good one might be the announcement of a white people tax, > which will pay reparations to native Americans and black people. > There’s a long list of fun taxes to announce, like 5 dollars per > gallon for gasoline for each mpg less than 25mpg. Oh, and how about > tax incentives for mixed race couples in order to diversify the gene > pool. Concurrent with this, all other dependent tax deductions will > be eliminated. In fact, because of global warming, all children of > non-mixed races couples will be subject to a $20,000 a year tax. > Churches will no longer be tax exempt. > > Marcus > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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