[FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

[Steven A Smith]

Marcus -

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?

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...  

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.

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.

I wonder if anyone has a (meta?) model of this kind of "changing the game"?

- Steve

> Steve writes:
>
> < 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".   >
>
> 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. 
>
> Marcus
>
>
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