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<p>Marcus -</p>
<p>I do like the idea that a good "comedy team" might effectively
de-weaponize deep-fakes... like The Yes Men or SNL perhaps...
there is the risk that such "normalizes" deep fakes, but to the
extent that it is already on it's way... comedy-ifying may be the
best (least-worst) alternative?</p>
<p>After Trump's ascendancy showed it's worst true-colors I had any
number of "comedy-centric" ideations to generate a crowd-sourced
reaction. The first (dark) one was called "take a Dump for
Trump" and involved variations on the old teenager's bad joke of
placing a burning bag of dogshit on a rival's porch to be "stomped
out". The second was more campy and involved collecting
donations to be put into a fund to pay out "bounties" on
pie-throwers. Think of an Iraq-War style pack of cards with
faces/names/bounties on Trump and his inner-mid-outer circles.
Maybe starting with a $1 bounty for anyone who has shaken hands
with him, spiraling in toward those working/living in the White
House... <br>
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<p>It would surely play havoc for the Secret Service but more
entertaining I can just imagine the distortion of security at Mara
Lago for him and his. Would his aides who got booed out of
restaurants a few years back instead have gotten a pie in the face
(and a bounty big enough to fund future operations paid to the
pie-thrower?). Imagine all the pies being confiscated at the
entry to one of his rallys? With a $1 bounty on any rally
attender, you might see a very different style and texture of
counter-protest.<br>
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<p>While there would surely be civil and legal consequences... there
*would* also be a comic-relief and perhaps de-escalation of
self-seriousness consequence as well.</p>
<p>I wonder if anyone has a (meta?) model of this kind of "changing
the game"?</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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<p>Steve writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>< I don't know how deeply technical the presumed
election-manipulation of 2016 (now 2020) is, but it *does*
seem like the work you reference here implies that with the
information venues/vectors like streaming video (TV, Movies,
Clips, attendant advertising) and social media
(FB/Insta/Twit...) the understanding and tools are already in
place to significantly manipulate public opinion. Based on my
anecdotal experience about people's *certainty*, this article
is very on-point. And this doesn't even reference the
technology of "deep fakes". ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What would be some fun deep fakes? He’s decided the wall
was all a big mistake and that now families in the south will
be required to give up their living room floor and extra
bedrooms for families that cross the border? The especially
vulnerable, like gender-conflicted teens are at the front of
the line. Once a week will be (mandatory) take your visitor
to work day, where you train them to do your job. Another
good one might be the announcement of a white people tax,
which will pay reparations to native Americans and black
people. There’s a long list of fun taxes to announce, like
5 dollars per gallon for gasoline for each mpg less than
25mpg. Oh, and how about tax incentives for mixed race
couples in order to diversify the gene pool. Concurrent with
this, all other dependent tax deductions will be eliminated.
In fact, because of global warming, all children of non-mixed
races couples will be subject to a $20,000 a year tax.
Churches will no longer be tax exempt.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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