it is “A powerful reminder that we can no longer trust our own eyes,”Said a representative of the British broadcaster Channel 4 the Guardian. Each year, the BBC broadcasts a special Christmas speech to the nation of Queen Elizabeth II. But it is 2020 and that means that everything must be even stranger. So Channel 4 took the time to broadcast its own deepfake version of the queen’s holiday message.
Played by actress Debra Stephenson, the liarQueen d started her speech thanking Channel 4 for giving her the opportunity to speak from the heart. She then starts making jokes about Harry and MeghThe match The British Royal Family and health professionals putting their lives in your hands deal with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. she too makes a not-so-subtle dig at Prince Andrew’s house relationship like deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
If you have vision problems and limited hearing, you can, could, be fooled by the false Queen on a busy Christmas day. But when she starts talking about Netflix and starts dancing, you’ll certainly know something is up. Channel 4 makes little effort to hide its deception, but that hasn’t stopped some critics from expressing discomfort with the feat.
“We must be very careful when making people think that they cannot believe what they see”, Sam Gregory, Program director for the human rights organization Witness, he told the Guardian. “If you haven’t seen them before, it can make you believe that deep fakes are a more widespread problem than they really are. “
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Deepfakes use machine learning to analyze a batch of images and generate a video approximation of what it would be like if we say, Office starred in the cast of The Matrix. But the technique requires a lot of processing power and artistic nuances on the part of a creator to be able tol anyone. Earlier this year, the creators of South Park launched a deepfake web series which included fake portraits of Mark Zuckerberg and Jared Kushner. Even with the resources and talent available to the showrunners of the most successful TV series of all time, deepfakes were still pretty crazy.
But the method of counterfeiting is getting more convincing and easier for beginners. If deepfakes don’t proved to be a significant source of hazards disinformation, they will at least allow Channel 4 to have its own annual Christmas address for the Queen for years to come.