Timeline for A.I. can make Video, Photographs, and Audio perfectly out of text prompt. How screwed is our legal system? [closed]
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| Jun 14, 2022 at 13:19 | history | closed |
JBH Mindwin Remember Monica Escaped dental patient. Tortliena - inactive sphennings |
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| Jun 14, 2022 at 10:58 | answer | added | Philipp | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 14, 2022 at 10:28 | answer | added | Daron | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 14, 2022 at 8:03 | comment | added | Tortliena - inactive | "Quantum computers made encryption a joke. Cryptographic algorithms used in the 2020s can be cracked in microseconds." This makes the whole world premise as being "near-future (circa 2030)", ie. close to our own, current world impossible. The World Wide Web as one knows it would shatter in days, and all related activities would crumble down by global wide hacking, which means a lot in most countries. You should solve this immense, immense thing in your world before looking at how judges would brawl in the court. | |
| Jun 14, 2022 at 4:55 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 14, 2022 at 1:55 | comment | added | JBH | @AlexP Your assertion that video (like the audio of yesteryear) would simply become untrustworthy (thus trivially solving the law's problem) is highly likely. What would be a better problem is realistic holography that could be projected into a cluttered space without local projectors or distortion. Let's add self-driving cars. Now you have living witnesses watching Anne Hathaway steal a car. But one would still have all the tried and true methods: fingerprints, DNA, proof of her actual itinerary. Your comments have led me to wonder if the law would care at all. | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 23:38 | answer | added | Nyctophobia457 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 21:35 | comment | added | AlexP | @SoronelHaetir: On the other hand, the premis of the question is that such deep fakes are widely available. So that yes, the first few people to fall victim of such pranks will suffer damage, but what will soon happen is that all video of unclear provenance will become untrustworthy. | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 21:24 | comment | added | AlexP | @Mindwin: (1) It's complicated. Yes, weak passwords are a problem. They are not more of a problem in the presence of quantum computing, though; that is, quantum computers cannot do much to making cracking passwords easier. (In correctly implemented systems, of course.) (2) Reference please. (That is, quantum resistant algorithms are said to be quantum-resistant if they really are quantum-resistant. AFAIK, quantum computers can, at best, reduce the effective length of the key of a good symmetric cypher by half; for example AES-256 would have an effective key length of 128. Wihich is enough.) | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 21:16 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 13, 2022 at 21:06 | comment | added | SoronelHaetir | I would argue that the effects outside of court are even more damaging, particularly in the current era of hyper-vigilantism. The porn example isn't likely to get all that much traction (especially if the pair are in fact married), private embarrassment but not likely to be career-damaging. Instead imagine ginning up a video apparently showing someone 30 years ago saying something that is now objectionable. The whole "a lie can travel 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its boots" thing. | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 21:00 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | @JBH let's close it then. Too bad it's not yet Winter's hat feast, or I'd get a hat. | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 20:59 | comment | added | JBH | I’m voting to close because: (a) This is an off-topic high concept question (hypothetical, opinion-based). (b) Questions about how to stop perfect things from being perfect violate the "all answers are equal" rule. (c) Entire libraries exist concerning the law (local, state, national, international...). Even if the exact and specific jurisdiction were provided, this violates the help center's book rule. | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 20:55 | comment | added | Faito Dayo | Deep fake has been used against celebrities in smear campaigns. But they still got caught and sued. | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 20:54 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | I agree with you but I want to make two objections. 1) people often use passwords with less than 256 bits of entropy (making cracking the PW easier than the algorithm) and 2) the premise of the question assumes [future-tech] has QC that can do that. A quick search showed that it can be done, with enough (mind-boggling lots by our current standards) Q-bits. | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 20:13 | answer | added | AlexP | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 20:10 | comment | added | AlexP | "Cryptographic algorithms used in the 2020s can be cracked in microseconds": No, they cannot. Plain ordinary widely used AES-256 is not afraid of quantum computers. (And it's not the only one. In fact, we already know what we need to do to make HTTPS and SSH impervious to quantum computing attacks, and the relevant standardization bodies are actively pushing for it.) | |
| Jun 13, 2022 at 19:51 | history | asked | Mindwin Remember Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |