Pulling Back From The Deep-Fake Crisisby@IoTeX
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Pulling Back From The Deep-Fake Crisis

by IoTeX5mOctober 22nd, 2020
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Social media, the “digital equivalent of a town square“ as Zuckerberg put it, is awash in sensationalization. Synthetic media obliterates any pretense to the Truth, even for the savvy user. Platforms so far have not been held accountable for the content users publish, thanks to Section 230, the immunity granting provision added to the Communications Decency Act in 1996, back when the internet was a bunny-hopping digital arcadia. The proverbial “uncanny valley” the idea that emotional connection with a synthetic human will never match “the real thing” is filling in.

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