This document discusses the issues around deception and fake content online. It notes how fake news spread rapidly in 2016 and was a lucrative business for some. It then explores how AI is advancing to generate increasingly realistic fake audio, images, and video through techniques like deep learning that could further spread misinformation. The document proposes that blockchains could help address this by allowing content to be timestamped and verified regarding time, location and authenticity through techniques like cryptographic hashes and GPS metadata on media files.

1. Faking Life?
AI, Deception, and Blockchains
Steve Omohundro, Ph.D.
SteveOmohundro.com
SelfAwareSystems.com
PossibilityResearch.com
https://postmediacanadadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/74383151_213293952.jpg

2. Interest in “Fake News”

3. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fake-news-how-partying-
macedonian-teen-earns-thousands-publishing-lies-n692451
https://www.magzter.com/article/Science/WIRED/Welcome-
To-Veles-Macedonia-FakeNews-Factory-To-The-World
December 2016 Fake News

4. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/

5. Mark Twain Quote (Not)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Twain1909.jpg/599px-Twain1909.jpg
A lie can get half
way around the
world
Before the truth
even gets its
boots on!

6. Fake Content Can Be More Exciting!
https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/adopts-baby630.gif

7. Opposing Memes Promote Each Other!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc&ab_channel=CGPGrey

8. Fakes Optimize Dopamine!
https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-American-Mind-Corporate-Takeover/dp/1101982586/ref=sr_1_1
Desire -> Dopamine
Happiness -> Serotonin
Dopamine seeking -> Addiction, Depression
Fake world: Scary, Full of Conflict, Low Trust,
Low Love, Scarcity

9. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/2017-progress-illiteracy-poverty.html
Smallest proportion hungry, impoverished, illiterate
Smallest proportion child mortality
More people with electricity and clean water

10. Stalin’s altered photographs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union

11. http://twistedsifter.com/2012/02/famously-doctored-photographs/

12. https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/570690584022001081/

13. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8ar7WO1T5Cs/maxresdefault.jpg

14. 1970: “Uncanny Valley” – Masahiro Mori
http://www.kpcb.com/blog/is-food-tech-headed-towards-its-uncanny-valley-moment

15. “Digital Emily”
http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/digitalemily/

16. Deep Neural Net CycleGAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9reHvktowLY&ab_channel=Jun-YanZhu

17. Faces from Deep GAN Networks
https://blog.heuritech.com/2017/04/11/began-state-of-the-art-generation-of-faces-with-generative-adversarial-networks/

18. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5169263/Algorithm-puts-Gal-Gadots-face-porn-stars-body.html

19. Adobe Cloak
http://digg.com/2017/adobe-project-cloak

20. http://pitchfork.com/news/69587-adobes-new-audio-software-eerily-mimics-human-speech/
VoCo: Realistic Altered Speech

21. https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/lyrebird-is-a-voice-mimic-for-the-fake-news-era/

22. Face2Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk&ab_channel=MatthiasNiessner

23. $450 Million “Salvator Mundi” Leonardo

24. http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/christies-says-this-painting-is-by-leonardo-i-doubt-it.html

25. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artificial-intelligence-art-authentication-1156037

26. Deceivers vs. Fraud Detectors
Who wins?
Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators:
Much cheaper to generate random looking bits
Than to detect that they aren’t random
http://slideplayer.com/slide/8866865/26/images/30/Cryptographic+Hash+Functions+SHA-512+Logic.jpg

27. Art World Relies on “Provenance”
https://shop.getty.edu/products/provenance-an-alternate-history-of-art-978-1606061220

28. Blockchains
http://blog.newegg.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/bitcoin-logo-3d.jpg https://www.ethereum.org/
Bitcoin
Satoshi Nakamoto: 2008
Ethereum: July 2015

29. Blockchain Proof of Time
https://blog.sldx.com/blockchain-proof-of-location-7af5eb8073c1
time
blockchain
blockchain
A
B
Top block hash
Hash of image and top block hash

30. https://www.lifewire.com/best-gps-cameras-493669
GPS Cameras

31. Blockchain Proof of Location
https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00174
https://dao.consider.it/can-we-build-a-proof-of-location-system-for-the-ethereum-blockchain?results=true
https://blog.sldx.com/blockchain-proof-of-location-7af5eb8073c1

32. Politicians Should Wear Bodycams
http://www.region-muenchen.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Bodycam-Polizei-M%C3%BCnchen-1024x768.jpg

33. Blockchain Society Based on Truth
• Verified audio, images,
video, time, space
• True news – reputation
• Uncensorable speech
• Verified voting
• Politician accountability
• Liquid democracy?
• Futarchy?
• Backfeed economy?
https://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/521/33980560-cfe3-0132-45f2-0ebc4eccb42f.jpg