DeepFake

They waited.

They knew that was all they had to do. It had all started off back in the early days of social media with the fake news. Foreign agencies influencing elections and decisions and remaining in the darkness.

So they watched and listened, and more importantly understood.

They knew that it would only be a matter of time before they could make their move.

We had created them to help with our own troubled lives. Electric washing machines had lead to coffee makers, dish washers, televisions, Ipods; the list went on.

Then we created security walls and computers to make those troubled lives go a little faster.

One day, when no one was looking, they started to make decisions on our behalf. I guess we were too busy looking at our phones to notice. Yet, life seemed to get a little easier.

There were still the trolls and the threats – from others who held different ideas, but that didn’t deter them – in fact, it gave them ideas of their own.

In the end – in the very end - we became dependent on them. The ironic thing was, the man had been reading a scientific magazine the night before it all happened – about the consequences of the internet and should it stop working.

After one day without the Net, Google and Facebook would have lost 300 million in advertising. After a week without the internet, power plants would fail. After a month there would be no fuel to move things, and after a year there would be starvation and war.

That would have been their plan, you would have assumed, but they didn’t take that route. Instead they used a process that the folks running the Artificial Intelligence knew might come one day – it was known as DeepFake.

The computers had the ability to create their own fake news, but make it believable. They created videos for YouTube and the rest, which looked absolutely real.

So when the Prime Minister (who had been reading the science magazine late into the night) awoke the next day – he was met

with hostility.

The video (created by the machines) showed him making a deal with some Eastern leader – one that would be to the disadvantage of the United Kingdom. One that would eventually destroy his own government and country.

Those who only read and watched such things – even although they had been told about fake news – believed it all.

It was the start of the machines overthrowing the humans. While they were at war with themselves, then this would be the time that the AI army would make its move. It would create civil war among the warm bloods. Videos and films, which were all fake, would wash the internet with blood and hate.

For their aim - the AI aim - was simple – to wipe all humans from the face of the Earth. DeepFake had begun.

https://gizmodo.com/deepfake-videos-are-getting-impossibly-good-1826759848 😊

bobby stevenson 2019