First Amendment protections

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What do deep fakes mean for our First Amendment protections?

You were asked to consider this question while reviewing the powerpoint on the technicalities of deep-faking.

find a deep fake that someone else has created (including images of the deep fake, its creator, that creator’s audience and purpose) of how we know it is a deep fake and why it was created. Do not use the Jim Carrey series that I showed in my slides.

 

 

 

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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Deep fakes refer to the manipulation of images and videos in such a way that it is difficult for an untrained eye to differentiate between real and fake. This technology has been used for malicious purposes, such as creating false news stories or altering video footage in order to discredit someone. With this new technology, people’s First Amendment rights are being put at risk because they no longer have control over how their words or actions are represented in public media.

 

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Deep fakes refer to the manipulation of images and videos in such a way that it is difficult for an untrained eye to differentiate between real and fake. This technology has been used for malicious purposes, such as creating false news stories or altering video footage in order to discredit someone. With this new technology, people’s First Amendment rights are being put at risk because they no longer have control over how their words or actions are represented in public media.

 

One example of deep faking I found was a video created by artist Bill Posters which features Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussing his plans to acquire power and manipulate society with artificial intelligence (AI). The video combines clips of Zuckerberg’s actual interviews with various other audio sources, making it seem as if he is saying something he never said before. It then proceeds to show AI manipulating his image on screen. We know this is a deep fake because the audio and visual elements have obviously been manipulated from their original sources, meaning that what we see onscreen could not have occurred naturally.

This video was created in order to represent the dangers of AI being used for social engineering purposes. By creating this deep fake, Posters sought to draw attention to potential abuses of AI technology by powerful entities like Zuckerberg himself. In doing so, he shed light on how dangerous this kind of manipulation can be when placed into the wrong hands – particularly those who do not understand its implications or consider its ethical consequences.

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