{"id":67593,"date":"2019-07-01T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67593"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T13:58:15","slug":"now-we-need-to-add-handwriting-to-the-list-of-things-that-can-be-mimicked-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/07\/01\/now-we-need-to-add-handwriting-to-the-list-of-things-that-can-be-mimicked-fakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Now we need to add handwriting to the list of things that can be mimicked. #Fakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">A couple of somewhat scary excerpts from<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bernardmarr\/2019\/06\/21\/meet-hemingway-the-artificial-intelligence-robot-that-can-copy-your-handwriting\/#27a1fb4a4dab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Meet Hemingway: The Artificial Intelligence Robot That Can Copy Your Handwriting<\/strong><\/a> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(from forbes.com by Bernard Marr):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehandwriting.company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.thehandwriting.company\/\">The Handwriting Company<\/a>\u00a0now has a robot that can create beautifully handwritten communication that mimics the style of an individual&#8217;s handwriting while a robot from Brown University can replicate handwriting from a variety of languages even though it was just trained on Japanese characters.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHemingway is The Handwriting Company\u2019s robot that can mimic anyone\u2019s style of handwriting. All that Hemingway\u2019s algorithm needs to mimic an individual\u2019s handwriting is a sample of handwriting from that person.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">So now there are folks out there that can generate realistic &#8220;fakes&#8221; using videos, handwriting, audio and more. Super. Without technologies to determine such fakes, things could get ugly&#8230;especially as we approach a presidential election next year. I&#8217;m trying not to be negative, but it&#8217;s hard when the existence of fakes is a serious topic and problem these days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Addendum on 7\/5\/19:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-ruin-internet-tsunami-fake-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>AI poised to ruin Internet using &#8220;massive tsunami&#8221; of fake news<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from futurism.com<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cBecause [AI systems] enable content creation at essentially unlimited scale, and content that humans and search engines alike will have difficulty discerning\u2026 we feel it is an incredibly important topic with far too little discussion currently,\u201d Tynski told\u00a0<em>The Verge<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: A couple of somewhat scary excerpts from Meet Hemingway: The Artificial Intelligence Robot That Can Copy Your Handwriting (from forbes.com by Bernard Marr): The Handwriting Company\u00a0now has a robot that can create beautifully handwritten communication that mimics the style of an individual&#8217;s handwriting while a robot from Brown University can replicate handwriting from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,825,285,330,437,480,454,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-political-science","category-robotics","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67619,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67593\/revisions\/67619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}