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Deepfakes and the Infocalypse with Nina Schick — Part 1
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What does it mean when you can’t trust what you see with your own eyes or hear with your own ears? In this two-part episode, Author and political advisor Nina Schick joins Ron Steslow to discuss her book Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse and what the use of synthetic media could mean for our politics and society.
(01:44) Her career as a political consultant and how she came to focus on misinformation
(04:15) What deepfakes are
(07:34) What is the Infocalypse?
(09:10) How deepfakes have become available to the masses
(14:35) Can detection software keep up with advances in deepfakes?
(26:10) Deepfakes and non-consensual pornography
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