Against the deepfake, "we expect that on December 9, in the meeting we will have in the Senate, we will be able to define, with our parliamentary and government interlocutors, rules that allow us to report as inauthentic videos that pretend to be real and to being able to remove them when it is a matter not of satire, but of falsification of reality". To sound the alarm on the phenomenon of the moment, that is the new technique that exploits artificial intelligence to superimpose the face of a person on another shot in a video, is the former minister Francesco Rutelli, today president of Anica and Videocittà, on the sidelines of the conference "The threat of the deepfake", organized in Rome during the Videocittà festival.
“For the first time in Italy a conference is held on deepfake, a technique with which St. Thomas is surpassed ('if I don't see, I don't believe'), because seeing is no longer enough to be able to believe”, stated Rutelli. At stake is "the manipulation of people's images and identities", highlighted the former political leader of the Margherita. "For this reason it is also necessary to raise citizens' awareness, to be both less naive in spreading self-images that can be used in a perverse or perfidious way, and to be more attentive to what we see, raising the level of critical awareness".
The Videocittà festival dealt with all the transformative realities of moving images, from video-mapping to virtual reality, from visual art to youtubers as entrepreneurs of themselvesinvolving the general public. "But we need to involve him - added Rutelli - also on the negative implications that digital evolutions can have, in politics and the economy as well as in our lives"
