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To support the Guardian and the Observer buy a copy at. Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes is published by Hodder & Stoughton (ВЈ18.99). Our fascination with deepfakes strikes me as the latest iteration of this emotional rollercoaster, and itвЂ™s one Grothaus captures very well. Our relationship with visual representations of ourselves always runs along this axis of narcissism and dread: at once promising a defeat of death, but by arousing that desire only to disappoint it, crushingly reinforcing its inevitability. Instead of immortality we brought the opposite: a total loss of self-control. The way we edited them into our storylines made them feel less powerful, more vulnerable. That said, whenever our contributors saw the films they featured in, they hated them. The camera seemed to promise that their experiences had meaning, and ultimately offered a kind of immortality. Slowly it dawned on me there was something about the process of filming that seduced them. Most were ordinary people uninterested in fame. I always wondered why anyone agreed to take part in them.

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But one thing we do know is that the discourse that has grown up around this issue, rather than being something radically new, is part of a much older dynamic.Д«ack in a previous life I used to make TV documentaries. Will deepfakes change this? Will their mere existence destroy any vestiges of trust in a shared reality? Potentially. The quality of the deception is not necessarily the crucial factor. ItвЂ™s about feeding them what they want to consume anyway. ThatвЂ™s the thing about вЂњdisinformationвЂќ: itвЂ™s not really geared towards changing peopleвЂ™s minds. 'Disinformation' is not really geared towards changing peopleвЂ™s minds. It just fitted with peopleвЂ™s existing biases.

The video went viral in Magaland, but not because its authenticity was particularly persuasive. The political case study he describes is of an amateur edit of a video that made it look as if Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson was humiliating Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 election. Embarrassing вЂ“ but also only possible because of a pretty gullible interlocutor.

The actual financial scam Grothaus describes involves fraudsters who used a voice recording of a CEO to call his accountant and get him to wire them $243,00. Deepfakes of candidates saying something untoward in the final moments of a close election could change the fate of geopolitics.Д«ut while such scenarios are dizzying in their destructive potential, they are, for the most part, still theoretical. Even a short fake video of, say, the CEO of a major company resigning, could send markets into panic for just long enough to enable the people who created it to make a killing. On the other they bring the fear of utter chaos. On the one hand they hold out the prospect of overcoming death, envisioning utopia, fulfilling sexual desire. This split reaction runs through GrothausвЂ™s book on deepfakes. Then he deleted it вЂ“ horrified at the rupture it had made in reality, and the consequences it implies for our sense of truth and trust. He watched the video repeatedly вЂ“ relishing the reunion. The digital resurrection of his father gave rise to contradictory feelings in Grothaus. Then he turned towards the screen and smiled benignly at his son from behind his unmistakeable bushy eyebrows. He was enjoying himself, recording the sun-dappled park around him. Just over two decades later his son, Michael Grothaus, sat at his computer watching a video of his father, healthy and wearing a yellow T-shirt, playing with a smartphone that was invented many years after his death. His wife and young children watched as his miraculous survival turned to a sudden worsening of his underlying heart disease.

Next, his body swelled up to twice its size with fluid, so he looked like a balloon you could prick with a needle and burst. A month later, he was back there with a pain in his leg вЂ“ a clot that might or might not have been triggered by the accident. He recovered from a broken ankle and wrist and left hospital. Miraculously, he survived, and no one else was seriously injured. The collision was so powerful it thrust the engine of the professorвЂ™s car into the front seats. The car drifted across the lanes and into the rush of oncoming traffic. On the night of Thursday 3 September 1998, a middle-aged community college professor with a history of heart attacks passed out at the wheel of his car on a busy US highway.

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