Letter: With many possible levels of meaning, the concept of ‘fake’ is deeply flawed, writes Brian Smith
“Have you seen Barack Obama call Donald Trump a ‘complete dipshit’, or Mark Zuckerberg brag about having ‘total control of billions of people’s stolen data’?” your briefing on deepfakes asks . Yet these examples show that the concept of “fake” is deeply flawed. For the statements are true, though in fact not made by the purported utterer, and we know that any such statements are always “difficult”, and are artifice of some sort.
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