So... most legitimate use of blockchains I have come up with would be authentication of digital video/photography content. I sure hope folks are working on that too

I don't see what is "beyond" here, can someone elaborate on the contribution on top of established Deep Fake tech?

They imply that looking at not just spatial but also temporal differences is what they're doing that's new.

I don't know enough about it to know if that actually is new.

Thanks!

Smart to use John Oliver. He'll likely pick it up and provide free PR.

If it isn't highlighted we'll be looking at fake video footage in a few years of politicians admitting they're lizard people and some will believe it.

Imagine an events like that idiot that showed up armed at Comet Pizza but worse.

There's already a PSA from "obama" about deepfakes out there, so that'd make for a nice response, although I suppose for some folks a PSA from "trump" would carry more weight.

Pretty sure a chunk of their business model is paid content

I for one, love this. I'm looking forward to Hitler quoting that Sonic kid. Ah glorious, I love this new age we've entered.

Agreed. I keep hoping that this will make people become less trusting in strangers with strong opinions (e.g., newscasters). Unfortunately, as shown by another link on the HN home page [1], we tend to blindly trust the news.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004244

Once people's faith in video starts to crumble we may actually see some positive change in that area. Though do keep in mind, you can lead a horse to water, but can you make them drink?

But will lack of faith in video create a world in which criminals in piwer act with impunity. How can you expose something if all media is suspect. Its a weird future.

It's an eventuality at this point. There will be ways to determine manipulation, even cameras themselves will probably start embedding extraneous data within video to at least make it more difficult to manipulate. (That is when it becomes impossible to differentiate between reality and lies.)

At least then people wouldn't trust what they see at face value.