Zyobot
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Post by Zyobot on Jul 26, 2020 14:20:38 GMT
With today's ever-changing abundance of television, social-media trends and endless mosaic of memes, it can be much harder to navigate contemporary media than the rather filtered, monopolized kind from forty or fifty years ago. Nonetheless, I'm wondering what we can pinpoint about the state of media and pop culture maybe a few decades down the line--perhaps twenty or thirty-something years from now, at least as a start?
For one, I'd guess that advancements in virtual reality will make customized, imaginative experiences far more graphic and mainstream than they are now. And, as said in an AH.com thread on this topic, ' deepfakes'--if allowed to persist as they do--will make big strides to the point of duplicating the voices of deceased figures more or less perfectly, or featuring unavailable actors in films and shows via creating computerized models based on their likeness. Seen in that light, efforts at creating whole cast without a single actual member present may very well pick up steam once that capability reaches independent studios and filmmakers. Assuming that the Hollywood giants and actors and in question don't sue to prevent this from becoming an everyday occurrence, of course. Those ideas aside, what else could be in store for the media landscape of tomorrow, however dodgy and imprecise our predictions may be nowadays?
Thank you in advance, Zyobot
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Post by stevep on Jul 27, 2020 10:39:20 GMT
With today's ever-changing abundance of television, social-media trends and endless mosaic of memes, it can be much harder to navigate contemporary media than the rather filtered, monopolized kind from forty or fifty years ago. Nonetheless, I'm wondering what we can pinpoint about the state of media and pop culture maybe a few decades down the line--perhaps twenty or thirty-something years from now, at least as a start?
For one, I'd guess that advancements in virtual reality will make customized, imaginative experiences far more graphic and mainstream than they are now. And, as said in an AH.com thread on this topic, ' deepfakes'--if allowed to persist as they do--will make big strides to the point of duplicating the voices of deceased figures more or less perfectly, or featuring unavailable actors in films and shows via creating computerized models based on their likeness. Seen in that light, efforts at creating whole cast without a single actual member present may very well pick up steam once that capability reaches independent studios and filmmakers. Assuming that the Hollywood giants and actors and in question don't sue to prevent this from becoming an everyday occurrence, of course. Those ideas aside, what else could be in store for the media landscape of tomorrow, however dodgy and imprecise our predictions may be nowadays?
Thank you in advance, Zyobot
I think there would definitely be legal issues with faking appearances of famous stars, or other prominent celebrities, even if they were long dead. Especially since there would likely be a prominent porn presence in such films and doubly so if combined with VI. The big media organisations that dominate modern media are likely to come down hard on such activities. As such those programmes are likely to initially be mainly from countries that regularly breach international law and then as the technology becomes more readily available numerous underground producers. Its likely if the systems become cheap enough that attempts to control it would ultimately fail. As such expect a lot of VR containing famous people, neighbours, children, animals etc and quite possibly combinations of.
Also copywrite of plots and entire fictional universes is going to go out the window. A bit like what we do here in this but with many people, at least those with the resources and access to technology, can create any say Star Wars, Middle Earth, Jurassic Park etc stories they like.
Your also going to see it being used in politics and other areas to generate false stories about people the producer opposes. Again once it becomes cheap enough this could become very common so you might end up reversing the old saying about the camera never lies to never believing it. Going to be bloody disruptive as people learn to distrust everything, including their own eyes since it could well be possible to bug media they do trust, including their own VR system.
Another possible thing here is how easily it would be to fake product information. For instance 'proving' your car is a lot cheaper, more energy efficient, safer, etc than its main rivals, or negatively creating clear 'documentary' evidence of serious flaws in a rivals products. Especially with all the concerns about the reliability of electronic information if there's a claim released that say the new Boeing a/c is prone to serious failure how long, difficult and expensive would it be for the company to prove the information is false? Problems of course would be far greater for smaller companies and self-employed people as they would lack both the capacity to clearly disprove such allegations and also the public profile to present their case if opponents get in 1st.
Sooner or later some practical checks on abuse will become possible, if only to limit the levels of distrust of everything. However your probably going to see a lot of social problems as lack of trust could be crippling for many organisations from national states down. Hopefully some balancing system will come in quickly but what that would be is difficult to tell.
Steve
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Post by mspence on Aug 23, 2020 4:04:26 GMT
Personalized feeds, fact checkers, AI writers, citizen journalism, live streams that can be broadcast to brain jacks or memory implants. People will have greater access-and control-over their information, hopefully making the process of news and information gathering more democratic overall. The fear will be that this can lead to abuse by spammers, unscrupulous characters with their own agendas, and advertisers posing as news distributors.
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