Fake Voices: The Ethics of Deepfakes
(MIT App Inventor)
"In this unit, students explore synthetic media by creating a smartphone app that can speak in different voices by changing the rate and pitch of the speech. Students work in groups to present arguments about the possible future impacts of various types of #deepfake media, including ones in commerce and assistive technology as well as those used in crime.
Educators can use this lesson to introduce students to #coding , provide a basic understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and prompt students to predict the possible future use and abuse of synthetic media in society."
https://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/resources/ai/fake_voices_unit
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Far too many of our engineers, computer programmers, and people and social media have never taken courses in philosophy and ethics. They don't have a rabbi or priest to serve as a spiritual guide. So they are ethically rudderless - I'm actually meeting people who argue that "If it's possible for us to do, and it is legal, then it must be okay" which is the attitude that has led to every human rights abuse and atrocity. Being legal doesn't make it right, being illegal doesn't make it wrong. Being possible doesn't make it wise.
The amount of good that this technology can do vanishes in comparison to the vast amount of harm, humiliation, and potential suicides that this technology will result in. I'm deeply distressed at how people from now on can have their lives or careers destroyed in an instant by deep fake videos and audio.
@KaiserScience @MrsDi @edutooters Gartner presented a talk at a conference a few years back on the topic of ethics and “Digital Humanism”. The takeaway for me was that there are two different approaches: A “Digital Machinist” says “If it can be done, we should do it.” The Digital Humanist says “Yes, it CAN be done, but I’d it the right thing to do?”
Seems like the Digital Machinists are winning the ethics war…
@tx_tartan thanks! I’ll take a look!
@MrsDi Here’s an article that seems to do a pretty good job of describing the topic: https://nextconf.eu/2017/11/what-is-digital-humanism/