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154 - Stephanie Lepp on Pro-Social Deepfakes, Post-Normal Science, and The Future of "Reality"

Humans On The Loop

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The Pro-Social Uses of Synthetic Media

Sally Kohn: I love the idea that maybe Mark Zuckerberg is going to see himself saying this and he's going to change his mind about something. She says, "I have perhaps lingered for too long on the short story I wrote in 2017 about the psychological consequences of the loss of what Regina Rini calls an epistemic backstop" The video uses synthetic media imagery with deep fakes like Brett Kavanaugh or Alex Jones but also real people who can be seen through a mirror as if they had been there all along.Kohn: It expands the potential of technology that people are mostly looking at in terms of how ominous and politically catastrophic it could be. And one of the best examples

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