The book sketches out an alarming future where convincing fakes will make it even harder for citizens to disentangle truth from lies, and I would advise policy-makers to read it.- Jim Pickard, chief political correspondent, The Financial Times The lessons I learned from it will stay with me for a long time.- Iain Dale, broadcaster, Leading Britain's ConversationĭEEPFAKES is an uncomfortable but gripping read, probing the way in which the internet has been flooded with disinformation and dark arts propaganda dubbed by Schick as 'the Infocalypse'-and how that has undermined democracies in the world. I was gripped from the first page and read the book in one sitting.
This all-too-timely book also unveils what this all means for us as individuals, how deepfakes will be used to intimidate and to silence, for revenge and fraud, and just how truly unprepared governments and tech companies are for what's coming.Ī searing insight into a world so many of us find difficult to understand. This crisis of misinformation which we now face has since been dubbed the "Infocalypse." In DEEPFAKES, investigative journalist Nina Schick uses her expertise from working in the field to reveal shocking examples of deepfakery and explain the dangerous political consequences of the Infocalypse, both in terms of national security and what it means for public trust in politics. As advances in artificial intelligence, video creation, and online trolling continue, deepfakes pose not only a real threat to democracy - they threaten to take voter manipulation to unprecedented new heights. In a world of deepfakes, it will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what isn't. About the Book "Published in the UK as Deepfakes and the infocalypse by Monoray"-Title page verso.īook Synopsis Uncover everything you need to know about "deepfakes" and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history.
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