From Motherboard, regarding r/deepfakes and the intersection of neural networks, data-rich social media silos, and men who are at best vaguely aware that women are people:
“An incredibly easy-to-use application for DIY fake videos—of sex and revenge porn, but also political speeches and whatever else you want—that moves and improves at this pace could have society-changing impacts in the ways we consume media. The combination of powerful, open-source neural network research, our rapidly eroding ability to discern truth from fake news, and the way we spread news through social media has set us up for serious consequences.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjye8a/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley
What this means to you:
It’s probably time to stop shaming girls for their nude selfies and warning them that they’re gonna ruin their lives; if the men of today want a girl’s life ruined, her participation is entirely superfluous. An even slightly motivated asshole can now turn the primmest of young ladies into abject sluts with little more than a good GPU and a persistent erection.
Or put another way: that bitter, bowl-cut douchebag you dumped in the 11th grade and haven’t thought about in five years has enough data from your Instagram feed to convincingly insert you into a clip named dogrape.mp4 and share it with everyone you know. (Congratulations on being a woman!)
And because it’s still early days, the focus is currently on civilian faces projected on to sex worker bodies. That will change. As the tech improves and can better compensate for the grain and shitty lighting found in the average homemade porn, your vindictive soon-to-be ex-husband will be “working late at the office” while inserting your sister into that video he shot of you getting your ass railed on your honeymoon, and then spreading it around Tumblr. Your body will become a canvas upon which he’ll paint your entire family’s public humiliation.
Also, truth is dead.