Telling our stories our way
One thing that we’ve been talking about over at Scenic Fights is the rise of AI and how you can take anyone’s likeness and make videos outta them, like this CBS reporter did:
It’s pretty impressive – and horrifying at the same time.
You can literally make anyone that you have pictures of, do anything.
Seriously, anything (I’ll let you fill in the blanks here).
On this note, you may have noticed that I don’t put up any pictures of my kid with his face showing.
I used to write his name in this blog, but I don’t even do that anymore – that’s the main reason I call him “the kid,” here.
As for why I did that, I’ve told you about before; which is that it’s not fair for me, as his parent, to take away his right to privacy/anonymity just because I can.
What if he doesn’t want to be known? What if he wants to write and tell his own story his way?
If I have years of posts about him complete with his face and everything, that will be all the more difficult.
But even in the back of my mind, I knew that technology would improve to the point where anyone could take a picture and animate it to make it appear that the picture person was doing something they never would.
In fact, that was the main subject of my lecture in Spain all those years ago.
The thing is, I never imagined that it would happen so quickly.
So, I’m doubly glad that I’ve not put up pictures of his face and will continue to do so – and I ask that you consider doing the same if you have kids.
If this whole #EpsteinFiles horror has taught us anything, it’s that there are some seriously messed up people out there.
Location: a bar, getting snockered
Mood: …snockered
Music: I’m diggin’ in, gettin’ ready for what comes (Spotify)
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