{"id":107740,"date":"2020-05-27T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared"},"modified":"2020-05-27T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T23:03:00","slug":"deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared","title":{"rendered":"Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we stand at an inflection point. In the months and years ahead, deepfakes threaten to grow from an Internet oddity to a widely destructive political and social force. Society needs to act now to prepare itself.<\/p>\n<p>The first use case to which deepfake technology has been widely applied\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/06\/how-porn-leads-people-to-upgrade-their-tech\/486032\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/06\/how-porn-leads-people-to-upgrade-their-tech\/486032\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"as is often the case\">as is often the case<\/a> with new technologies\u2014is pornography. As of September 2019, 96% of deepfake videos online were pornographic, according to the Deeptrace report.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of websites dedicated specifically to deepfake pornography have emerged, collectively garnering hundreds of millions of views over the past two years. Deepfake pornography is almost always non-consensual, involving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-42912529\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-42912529\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"artificial synthesis\">artificial synthesis<\/a> of explicit videos that feature famous celebrities or personal contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we stand at an inflection point. In the months and years ahead, deepfakes threaten to grow from an Internet oddity to a widely destructive political and social force. Society needs to act now to prepare itself. The first use case to which deepfake technology has been widely applied\u2014 as is often the case with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}