Deepfakes and the Infocalypse with Nina Schick — Part 1

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What does it mean when you can’t trust what you see with your own eyes or hear with your own ears? In this two-part episode, Author and political advisor Nina Schick joins Ron Steslow to discuss her book Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse and what the use of synthetic media could mean for our politics and society. 

(01:44) Her career as a political consultant and how she came to focus on misinformation

(04:15) What deepfakes are

(07:34) What is the Infocalypse? 

(09:10) How deepfakes have become available to the masses

(14:35) Can detection software keep up with advances in deepfakes?

(26:10) Deepfakes and non-consensual pornography 

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