This week we took a look at deep fakes. Deep fakes are videos created through the use of Ai. Using hours of footage from someone, artificial intelligence is able to reconstruct the likeness and expressiveness, then layer their face onto someone else. This has a variety of potential dangers in the future. Because the graphic isn’t computer generated, but harvested from real life footage, the better and cleaner this process becomes the more fake misleading videos can be made. which brings up multiple problems when it comes to personal identity and authenticity. similarly these new ‘Ai influencers’ pose the same problem. I believe they should be banned because it would be incredibly easy for propaganda to be spread by companies through them.

For the activity in the studio we learnt how to use a green screen and a zoom H4n. Luckily i have been very familiar with these for a few years now. as part of the exercise i made a joke video based on the classic ‘I’m tired of Earth’ speech by Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen.