Quote Originally Posted by Bailey Guns View Post
I'm totally ignorant of how this works...aside from what I've just read in this thread. I've heard of it recently but haven't given it much thought.

So, if someone fakes a photograph or video or whatever, is there a way to tell it's been faked? Like the Garth Brooks video above. Instead of just singing the song, someone has a fake Brooks saying all kinds of horrible things in say a private setting. Obviously it wouldn't work while he was on stage. But is there some type of analysis that could be done to tell if the audio/voice was not really Brooks, but a faked Brooks?
In all likelihood, experts could determine if something was faked probably for the next decade or so. But therein lies the problem. If the user can't tell it's faked, they rely on manipulated sources who proclaim to be "experts".

E.g.
Liberal sources report the deepfaked anti-conservative video to be real... some* people believe it's real.
Liberal sources report the legit video from their "guy" of whatever time to be deepfaked, people believe it's deepfaked.
Conservative sources report the deepfaked liberal video to be real... some* people believe it's real.

People already believe the obvious fake crap today, because we are so polarized and drowning in dissonance. This lets the respective camps build up impenetrable bubbles of insanity. Who are you going to believe, your talking heads or theirs? Both are going to inject their respective bias into their analysis. And at the end of the day, it still looks, acts, and talks like the person.