@article{2021:meckel:hybrid_rea,
title = {Hybrid Reality: The Rise of Deepfakes and Diverging Truths},
year = {2021},
note = {While the manipulation of media has existed as long as their creation,
recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have expedited the
range of tampering techniques. Pictures, sound and moving images can
now be altered and even generated entirely by computation. We argue
that this development contributes to a “hybrid reality”, a
construct of both human perception and technologically driven
fabrications. In using synthetic media involving deep learning, called
deepfakes, as one manifestation,we show how this technological
progress leads to a distorted marketplace of ideas and truths that
necessitates a renegotiation of democratic processes. We synthesize
implications and conclude with recommendations for how to reach a new
consensus on the construction of reality.},
journal = {Morals & Machines},
pages = {10--21},
author = {Meckel, Miriam and Steinacker, Léa},
volume = {1},
number = {1}
}