This sounds more like an impersonator than anything else. I guess this one is easy to spot because we're primed, it'll be interesting when the first "authentic" case of fake video arises.

This technology (when perfected) will mark the true beginning of the post-truth world.

There are tech people right now working to make Skynet and Terminators a reality. This is what happens when vacuous and amoral sociopaths who're nonetheless convinced of their own false superiority are completely decoupled from ethical constraints.

Media companies: BE AFRAID!
Me: Fuck off

@2 , Katie, et al ...

Did you watch the whole video? The article and the comments make no mention of the fact that this is an anti-fake-news PSA created by Jordan Peele and Buzzfeed:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/obama…

It's Jordan Peele who is doing the impersonation ... and then he appears in split-screen while the fake Obama continues saying what he is saying, warning against being tricked by fake news and to trust reliable news sources who do solid reporting.

Ahem.

@8 Katie covered this tech previously, featuring Peele more explicitly: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04…

I think such issues will end up in court eventually. Making someone say something they never did and have it be so believable.... well, that’s got to be illegal use of image in the long run.

At least the technology is still pretty shitty, giving people time to prepare for when it becomes harder to tell if it is fake or not.

I mean, look at the creases around his mouth: still very fake looking.

@11: It will have to essentially be seen as a form of slander.

@12 ah, the great Tom Lehrer. I believe he wrote that song for the show “That Was The Week That Was” in the mid-60’s