Artists created a fake video of Zuckerberg for an exhibit to illustrate how doctored videos known as deepfakes can appear almost identical to the real thing.
Facebook, which owns Instagram, did not immediately respond to request for comment, but Neil Potts, Facebook’s director of public policy, has previously said that Facebook would not take down a fake video of Zuckerberg,Posters and Howe also posted deepfake videos of Kim Kardashian and President Donald Trump as part of the exhibition.Deepfakes are fake videos that show a person saying or doing something they did not.
Eventually, users may not even be able to distinguish between what’s real and what’s fake, an alarming prospect for Posters and Howe, who the art installation is meant to show the “affective power of computational propaganda and the digital influence industry, where notions of truth and free will are not to be relied upon.”Facebook’s fake news policy has come under fire in recent weeks after the company said it would not remove a manipulated video of Pelosi.
The Pelosi video wasn’t a deepfake like the Zuckerberg one. It didn’t change the content of what Pelosi was saying, but was instead edited using conventional techniques. Still, the episode has highlighted a thorny problem facing Facebook and other social media companies. Facebook has always said it won’t take down fake news altogether, but instead will demote it in the News Feed and include fact checks around the post. After the doctored video went viral, Pelosi said the episode proved that Facebook executives were “willing enablers” in Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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