@article{Le_2020, title={The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare}, volume={17}, url={https://www.identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/468}, DOI={10.51151/identities.v17i2-3.468}, abstractNote={<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1950, Turing proposed to answer the question “can machines think” by staging an “imitation game” where a hidden computer attempts to mislead a human interrogator into believing it is human. While the cybercrime of bots defrauding people by posing as Nigerian princes and lascivious e-girls indicates humans have been losing the Turing test for some time, this paper focuses on “deepfakes,” artificial neural nets generating realistic audio-visual simulations of public figures, as a variation on the imitation game. Deepfakes blur the lines between fact and fiction, making it possible for the mere fiction of a nuclear apocalypse to make itself real. Seeing oneself becoming another, doing and saying strange things as if demonically possessed, triggers a disillusionment of our sense of self as human cloning and sinister doppelgängers become a reality that’s open-source and free. Along with electronic club music, illicit drugs, movies like Ex Machina and the coming sex robots, the primarily pornographic deepfakes are how the aliens invade by hijacking human drives in the pursuit of a machinic desire. Contrary to the popular impression that deepfakes exemplify the post-truth phenomenon of fake news, they mark an anarchic, massively distributed anti-fascist resistance network capable of sabotaging centralized, authoritarian institutions’ hegemonic narratives. That the only realistic “solutions” for detecting deepfakes have been to build better machines capable of exposing them ultimately suggests that human judgment is soon to be discarded into the dustbin of history. From now on, only a machine can win the Turing test against another machine.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Author(s): Vincent Le</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title (English): The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journal Reference: </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page Range: 8-18</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page Count: 11</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Citation (English): Vincent Le, “The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare,”</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 8-18.</span></p> <h2><strong>Author Biography</strong></h2> <p><strong>Vincent Le, Monash University</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vincent Le is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Monash University. He has taught philosophy at Deakin University and The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He has published in </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hypatia</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cosmos and History</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Art + Australia</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Šum</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Horror Studies</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colloquy</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, among other journals. His recent work focuses on the reckless propagation of the will to critique.</span></p>}, number={2-3}, journal={Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture}, author={Le, Vincent}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={8-18} }