The problem of video misinformation on the Internet will get much worse before it gets better. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says video creation capabilities are coming to ChatGPT within the next year or two.
Speaking to Bill Gates about the Unconfuse Me podcast (through Tom’s guide), Altman pointed to multimodality – the ability to work with text, images, audio and “eventually video” – as a major upgrade for ChatGPT and its models over the next two years.
While the OpenAI boss hasn’t gone into too much detail about how this will work or what it would look like, it will undoubtedly work along the same lines as the image creation capabilities that ChatGPT (via DALL-E) already offers . : Just type a few lines as a prompt and you’ll get back an AI-generated image based on that description.
Once we reach the stage where you can ask for any kind of video you like, with any topic or topic you like, we can expect a flood of deepfake videos on the internet – some made for fun and for creative purposes , but many intended to spread disinformation and defraud those who view it.
The rise of deepfakes
Of course, deepfake videos are already a problem – AI-generated videos of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appeared on Facebook this week – but it looks like the problem is about to get significantly worse.
Adding video creation capabilities to a widely accessible and easy-to-use tool like ChatGPT means it becomes easier than ever to produce fake video content, and that’s a major concern when it comes to separating fact from fiction .
The US goes to the polls later this year, and a general election in Britain is also likely to take place in 2024. With deepfake videos that claim to make politicians say something they never said already circulatingthere is a real danger of false information spreading very quickly online.
With AI-generated content becoming increasingly difficult to spot, the best way to know who and what to trust is to follow well-known and reputable online publications for your news sources – not something reposted by a family. member on Facebook, or pasted from an unknown source to the platform formerly known as Twitter.