Part 2: Deepfakes and the Infocalypse with Nina Schick
Nina Shick discusses her book Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse
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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 the second half of 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.
(01:43) What can you do to protect yourself from deepfakes?
(05:09) Government-industry collaboration to educate consumers
(17:28) Deepfakes in the context of wider geopolitical uncertainty
(24:10) The “Liar’s Dividend”
(30:15) Disinformation and the “Autocrat’s Dream”
(33:34) Deepfakes in the Russia-Ukraine War
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