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Mora- Group 1                  It amazes me how deep fakes can reveal fake information about people and it makes me question, are all the videos, audios and music that i heard real?     

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Mora- Group 1                  It amazes me how deep fakes can reveal fake information about people and it makes me question, are all the videos, audios and music that i heard real?     

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The fact that people can use the excuse of deep fakes whenever true videos or voicenotes get leaked really impressed me, I had never thought about it that way. It also made me reflect on the ways that deep fakes could be used in a positive way, like maybe saving up time that politicians can't waste and have a machine prepare their own videos, previous to a presentation.

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I really enjoy politics and it really made me think how deep fakes can manipulate people, especially the young teenagers that are probably going to vote. They are probably manipulated by a ver 'realistic' deep fake and their decisions may be constantly affected, therefore, also affecting their country's future.

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"It is fundamental to try to get informed on how to detect where can we find deep fakes. It is similar on detecting fake news, check who provides the information, the opinions, consult with your biases, if it is something trending, etc."

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I would choose a very 'basic' object which is a camera. I could relate this topic with the manipulation of photography nowadays, how even though pictures may seem real they can be edited either way. In the 21st century all innovation is pure manipulation.

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The fact that a person´s image or voice can be replicated with Artificial Intelligence into a video or voice audio really makes me thinkg. To what extent are we free and safe of saying our opinion, if they can be easily replicated and altered to manipulate others and make it look like we are saying something else? It makes me think that due to this, our right to freedom of speech is contradicted and harmed, as now we might feel less confortable or safe to do so.

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Julieta - Group 2 (To what extent technology is a double- edged sword?)

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Julieta - Group 2 (To what extent technology is a double- edged sword?)

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It really surprises me how age,  formation and education is a very important influence on our influence. For example, Chomsky mostly expresses negative results of technology, regarding the loss of cognition, damaging literacy and making people more lazy. He barely mentions any positive effects. This is because when he grew up, he was raised in a different context and with small prescence of technology, so he clearly is used to that. As he is very old and was born 1928, it was a completly different context back then. But, teenagers or young adults, people born nowadays are used to technology having a constant prescence in our lives and so we are used to it. So its normal for us to see more positive consequences of technology, rather than only bad.

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Deep Fakes. This really made me wonder how far deep fakes go. Since we are in a century where technology is accessible for everyone, and people have gotten a bit too comfortable with it, we have become gullible to everything we see in the news/internet. And now with deep fakes, information is being manipulated in such a precise way that we can even see a video of a person saying things with their own voice, but in reality it's not them talking. There are small subtleties that show the difference between the real and the deep fakes, however, many people are not trained or are not aware of it. This leads to the spread of fake news, which can cause big problems. So after analyzing this it got me thinking if I've ever seen a deep fake and believed it in my past when I was younger and not aware of the situation.

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Imagine a photoalbum full of photos and recordings of only yourself. In all of these files your face and body are entirely visible. Then, with all of these, imagine someone gathered them and merged them into a huge collage of all these angles. Your face,  body, and voice would be in motion/action without you actually doing it. This is what can happen with some videos or voicenotes you hear on the internet: you must check every angle, detail, and aspect of such in order to understand if it's real or not. It is useful to look for specific distortions, for example in the movements of the mouth or edges of the face.

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As an object, I would choose the musical video 'you' by Tate McRae and Troye Sivan that was posted on Youtube last week. This video uses the theme of a girl collecting all of the photos available of these artists and she's able to record herself with their faces. This is an actual example of a deep fake, since the girl used an algorithm that analysed their faces and was actually able to put such into hers. In relationship to the distinction between what is real and what is fake, I was very confused when her real face was presented and when the face of the girl she was making a replica of was actually there, so this proves how hard and blurry it is to find the difference.

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Regard, Troye Sivan, Tate McRae - You (Official Video)

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I do agree that the line to distinguish what is real and what is fake in this aspect is very blurry. Although there are some ways in which we can adress the reliability, like looking at details such as the eyes, relfections, and edges of the face, machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence programmes are improving at a very large pace and will continue to do so. Because of this, it will become gradually harder to make this distinction, thereby meaning that what we think is trustful knowledge to our eyes can actually be manipulated, and we would have no way to realise that.

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You cant believe everything you see off the internet. You can see a video of someone talking but it might actually not be them. Or an audio of someone with an identical voice, but it not truly being who you  think it is. How do you realize if its true of fake you ask? In a video you can pay attention to their eyes and hands, in audios you can pay attention to the way they speak and if they have weird accents or things you dont think they will say. So beware and stay safe when using technology and dont trust everything you hear or see.

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Mora- group 4:                   I definitely agree with this groups affirmation regarding our addiction to cell phones. It has been proved by scientists that being with our phones, produces dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is known for its pleasure and satisfaction effects which we can relate them to drug and alcohol addiction. Basically demonstrating this addiction towards our cell phones is equivalent to alcohol or drug addiction.

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Mora- group 4:                   I definitely agree with this groups affirmation regarding our addiction to cell phones. It has been proved by scientists that being with our phones, produces dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is known for its pleasure and satisfaction effects which we can relate them to drug and alcohol addiction. Basically demonstrating this addiction towards our cell phones is equivalent to alcohol or drug addiction.

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I agree with the solution Julieta and Agustin concluded with, since it enhanced the solution the speaker proposed. They specified a lot more the solutions, such as instead of limiting all access of technology to all children, we should teach them how to manage their time. We can start this off with a conversation about managing skills along with a demonstration of the consequences. Then they can put a limit to their screen time, such as 1:30 hours per day and maybe prevent some apps that aren't appropriate for their age, not because of the content, but because of the phycological damage it can generate. Along with that I agree that adults should have some restrictions too. In the work space, such as meetings, phones should be banned so they dont get distracted with WhatsApp or other apps.

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Technology is the new basis in which we live around, its the first thing we hear when we wake up with an alarm, in the day we are constantly followed by our schedule, when we sleep its the last thing we check looking to see if we forgot something, it is even on the air. The object I chose is the air conditioner from my room. This air conditioner came with this house we are renting and Ive been with it for around 2 years. Technology has such a big role in our lives that its become one of our 6 senses that we use to percive the world. Its crucial for us to have, and when its gone we feel anxious and contantly worried. For example, an experiment was made where they removed technology from a few kids in colledge and they noticed that with no technology we depend more on food. We constantly search for other escapes from reality that provide us with the dopamine levels that technology gives. To conclude here is a quote jazmin shared in class, "technology used to be an escape from the real world, now the real world is an escape from technology"

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I definetly agree with everyhting that this group stated. But especially, what really got my attention was what this group said about "social media changing the way we perceive ourselves and the rest of the world", because I´ve never really though about it in that way. I also agree with the conclusion reached by this group, about how we should rethink how we manage our use of technology nowadays. Although technology has positive and negative impacts, everything is in constant evolution, we can´t change it but can cope with it.

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Something I learnt from this presentations was that the responsability lies within the users. We, as users of technology, have full responsability and it´s up to us to decide how to use it, when to put a limit to it, how much influence we decide to give to it and how much we depend on it. It´s a question about balance, if we can find this balance, technology will be very beneficial for us.

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Technology doesn´t change the world, it changes how we perceive the world. As it has a great influence and prescence in our daily lives, we tend to depend on it and therefore it changes the way we access the world, how we interpret it. As an object, I would choose my mother´s glasses. Technology changes the way we perceive the world, such as glasses change the way we see the world, what surrounds us. When we put on glasses, we see better and different to the way in which we saw before we had the glasses on. The same thing happens with technology, as it changes the way we access the world. Instead of allowing us to see clearer and not blurry, as it happens with glasses, technology gives us a deeper and faster access to the world around us, but many times it can make us confuse even more. For example,social media changes the way in which we perceive ourselves, usually having a negative impact on us, as we tend to dislike how we look and try to change it.

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the group mentioned the fact that a deep fake is almost unrecognizeable if well made, and its true. It really makes me think about how many speeches or voice recordings i've heard thinking it was someone famous or a politician without knowing that it was a deep fake.