A first-hand exploration of the world of #deepfake and post-truth technologies, looking at the latest developments in art and ML-modelling. Including details of a #deepfake project for a forthcoming BBC programme and revealing some tips and tricks (and pitfalls) involved in bending reality with some Tensorflow and a GPU.
Technology and truth can sometimes be uncomfortable bedfellows.
For all it's affordances, our world of data and algorithms is also open to misdirection and trickery.
Our lives are mediated by a channel of information which is only tenuously related to actual reality.
In this talk I shall be exploring my experience as an artist using algorithms and code to manipulate reality.
In particular the use of #deepfake technology in video and #gpt-2 for the production of fake texts.